A PRIVATE SOLICITATION LETTER TO CALIFORNIA DEALERS

HATED BY DEALERS.
HIRED BY DEALERS.^™

A personal solicitation from the law firm that changed the plaintiff’s playbook.

Dear Dealer:

You know who we are. Car Law Firm has spent years identifying consumer claims against California automobile dealers that might otherwise never have been discovered. We have contacted consumers who did not know they had claims, uncovered undisclosed vehicle problems, developed new legal strategies, and brought cases that changed the way dealerships approach disclosures, documentation, and compliance.

Dealers have not always appreciated our work. Some have spent enormous amounts of money fighting us in state court, federal court, arbitration, regulatory proceedings, and disciplinary complaints. Dealers have sued us, filed complaints against us, threatened us, and repeatedly attempted to stop us. Yet we are still here.

Our work has caused disruption throughout the automobile industry, but it has also forced dealerships to become more compliant. Dealers now pay greater attention to vehicle histories, disclosures, advertising, financing documents, optional products, translated contracts, and consumer complaints. Whether dealers welcomed these changes or not, our work changed the industry.

It also created a serious financial problem for dealers: uncertainty. A dealership may complete hundreds of transactions without knowing which one will eventually produce a demand, lawsuit, or arbitration. Even when the dealer has a strong defense, it may have no idea what the defense will cost. One year may be relatively quiet, while the next may produce several cases and tens of thousands of dollars in unexpected legal bills.

THE DEALER DEFENSE PROGRAM

For $50 per qualifying California consumer-retail sale, subject to a $1,500 monthly minimum, the dealership can secure an ongoing relationship with Car Law Firm before the next eligible claim arrives.

Participating dealers receive legal rates discounted by 80%. Attorney rates are capped at $75 per hour. Paralegal rates are capped at $30 per hour. Law-clerk and legal-assistant rates are capped at $20 per hour. Most importantly, Car Law Firm’s total legal fees—including attorney, paralegal, law-clerk, and legal-assistant time—are capped at $3,000 per accepted eligible case.

The $3,000 per-case cap does not include filing fees, arbitration fees, deposition costs, transcripts, expert-witness fees, investigators, travel, or other third-party expenses. Known claims, existing threats, pending disputes, appeals, post-verdict proceedings, and other matters excluded by the written engagement agreement are not automatically covered. Nevertheless, the program gives a participating dealership something it has rarely had in consumer litigation: a defined legal-fee structure that can be estimated before the next eligible case begins.

Instead of waiting for an unknown legal bill, the dealer can estimate its annual program expense, allocate that expense across its qualifying sales, and build greater consistency into its yearly legal budget.

The dealer is not merely purchasing discounted legal time. It is securing our expertise. We know which transactions attract consumer attorneys, which documents create liability, which disclosures will be challenged, and which mistakes turn manageable complaints into expensive cases. We know the plaintiff’s playbook because we helped write it.

The dealership also secures our professional loyalty while a valid attorney-client relationship exists. Subject to the California Rules of Professional Conduct, the written engagement agreement, continuing conflict review, and the facts of each matter, our ethical obligations to an accepted current client are genuine. Enrollment does not purchase permanent immunity, erase an existing claim, protect an unreported VIN, or excuse unlawful conduct. It means that when we accept a dealership as a client, we take our duties of loyalty and confidentiality seriously.

THE ROAD FORWARD

Some dealerships reading this information may currently be adverse to Car Law Firm or one of our clients. If we presently represent a consumer against your dealership, our loyalty remains entirely with that consumer. We cannot advise your dealership, receive confidential information, accept payment, enroll VINs, activate a portal account, or accept your dealership as a client until every adverse matter involving our firm has been fully and finally resolved.

There is a road forward. First, resolve every existing matter involving Car Law Firm through your current counsel. Second, after those matters have concluded and all settlement obligations have been completed, contact us for a fresh conflict and eligibility review. Third, if your dealership clears that review and Car Law Firm provides written acceptance, complete the engagement agreement, activate the Dealer Defense portal, establish payment, and begin reporting your qualifying VINs.

The Car Law Firm Dealer Defense Strategy Booklet (link to PDF?) explains the program in greater detail. You do not have to like us. You do not have to tell your competitors that you hired us. You do not even have to stop complaining about us. You simply have to decide which side of the table you would rather have us sitting on when the next claim arrives.

Do not submit confidential information about an existing dispute unless Car Law Firm confirms in writing that it may receive it.

Sincerely,
Car Law Firm
Sadr Law Firm, APLC

Program terms, eligibility requirements, fee caps, exclusions, and included services are governed exclusively by the written engagement agreement. No attorney-client relationship is created by receiving this letter, visiting the website, scanning the QR code, contacting the firm, or submitting general information. An attorney-client relationship exists only after Car Law Firm completes its review and provides written acceptance.