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How FFLGuard Works
The Chiafullo Group, LLP (“the Group”)
offers its
FFLGuard
program as real-time legal services.
FFLGuard
IS NOT INSURANCE and IS NOT PRE-PAID
LEGAL SERVICES. Instead, participating in the Group’s
FFLGuard program forms an active lawyer/client
relationship between you – a valid federal firearms licensee – and
your counsel in the Group and/or its agents.
Two-thirds of your yearly retention fee (currently $2495) is held in attorney
trust for your potential use, or the use of fellow FFLGuard
participants, subject to the FFLGuard Law Plus Guidelines and your
retainer agreement with the Group; the remaining third acts as a flat fee to the
Group for their oversight services and your Legal HelpDesk access. Each
participant in the FFLGuard program may be eligible to access that pool
of trust money to pay legal fees should the participant be subject to an ATF
audit or civil litigation aimed at scrutinizing your business practices. And, of
course, your participation in the program entitles you to consult with your
lawyers on any firearms-related issue that may cause you concern at a
rate discounted by virtue of your participation in the FFLGuard program.
It’s that simple
This grass-roots effort requires the
collaboration and cooperation of multiple retail dealers to, in effect,
collectively retain legal professionals and “share” these professionals with
other retail dealers. All
FFLGuard participants
must adhere to the
FFLGuard Law Plus Guidelines
to gain access to the reserve funds held in trust for occasions where an audit
or lawsuit may be instituted against you. Even if the
FFLGuard Law Plus
Guidelines are not strictly followed, you are never
without cost-effective representation: your participation fee entitles you to
retain FFLGuard
approved counsel at a rate reduced by 1/3 of counsel’s normal and customary
rate.
Solidarity is the first step towards the sense of legal security that all
federal firearms licensees seek in the current political climate.
What FFLGuard
Offers its Members >
FFLGuard is a program for legal services run by
a law firm, The Chiafullo Group, LLP.
THIS IS NOT INSURANCE OR PRE-PAID LEGAL
SERVICES; THIS IS ACTIVE REPRESENTATION PURSUANT TO AN ATTORNEY/CLIENT
RELATIONSHIP.
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