Hi all,
I need a lawyer who can help file a class-action lawsuit against my university. I'm currently in a CUNY Graduate program for Occupational Therapy. When we entered the program, the agreed upon knowledge was that our semester of fieldwork experience was 1 billable credit for the entire semester. Tuition for those 16 weeks was supposed to be around $420.
Now they decided they want more money and are changing what was originally agreed upon by students who entered into the program 2 years ago. They are changing it to 10 credits (They have not even notified us yet- heard this from an inside source) and this is costing the students over $6,000 extra for the semester- which is unreasonable.
Anybody have knowledge of a lawyer who would be willing to take this case?
seems to me that you are lawyering up waay too fast, sure you can find a lawyer to take your money..
Step 1: find out if its even true
if its true, talk to them about it, nicely
if that doesnt help, get the group of people that are concerned with this matter and go talk to the power that be, together..
if all that doesnt work, write a formal letter, get it signed by all.
there is usually an arbitration clause in your schools contract, call them to arbitration, or even if there is not, you can still request that they come to arbitration, just contact an arbitration/mediation company like
http://www.namadr.com/mediation.cfm ask them how they can help, this will likely be much cheaper, easier and faster than getting a lawyer involved..
