ETrafficCitation is operated by an attorney, which is unlike other traffic citation resolution businesses in Las Vegas, Nevada

Traffic Ticket Answers - Las Vegas, Nevada
Originally published on Friday, August 1, 2008 at ETrafficCitation.com

I, Kirk D. Kaplan, Esq. (Nevada Bar Number 5685) own and operate ETrafficCitation. This is unlike several other traffic ticket resolution businesses in Las Vegas.

If you come into my office at 6480 W. Spring Mountain Road, Suite 4, Las Vegas, Nevada, if I am not in court or in a client meeting, you will likely be able to speak to me personally about your matter. This is unlike many other traffic citation resolution businesses in Nevada. Please understand that other traffic citation businesses exist that are attorney owned and run. But the trick is for you to find out which ones are.

Questions you need to ask when requesting assistance from a traffic ticket resolution business are: “Are you owned an run by a licensed attorney?” “If so what is the name and bar number of the attorney? “How long has the attorney owned and operated the business?” “What is the address of the attorney’s office? Then, if you want to make sure of the truthfulness of what is told to you, call the State Bar of Nevada at (702) 382-2200 and ask to speak to someone in Ethics Department. Tell the Ethics department of your conversation and see what the Ethics Department says. You should also check the consistency of the information given to you from the traffic citation resolution business. For example, if the address of the attorney is different from the location of the traffic ticket resolution business, this may be an indication that an attorney does not own the traffic ticket resolution business. Here is the logic: While attorneys may have several locations (some do for legitimate purposes such as estate planning attorneys desiring to be close to senior clients in Summerlin and in Henderson), most attorneys do not because the cost of overhead for rent, utilities, and the purchase of additional equipment such as copy machines his expensive. This is one example that may indicate the sham. Techniques find out whether an attorney owns the traffic citation resolution business are are too numerous to list here. Use your head and I bet you can find out what is really happening behind the scenes.

Currently, the State Bar is investigating several traffic ticket resolution business in Las Vegas because of a sham business structures. Here is the sham, I call the structure a SCAM:
Behind the scenes the business is owned by a person who is not licensed as an attorney in Nevada. This structure is intended to be invisible to the public because the real owner does not want the public to know what is really happening. In todays world that demands clarity and transparency, this type of structure is meant to deceive you. At my office, transparency exists, period.
The business then hires an attorney to appear in court for the non attorney owed business on traffic citation.
When the attorney returns from the court, the results are likely handed off to a non formally trained person to translate the legalize into English for the customer. At this stage communications is likely sent to the client that does not contain an original signature of the attorney. In my office, I sign all correspondence to clients communicating the result of your traffic citation. My signature indicates that I have reviewed your file and that I approve the communications of the results to you.

As is typical in all business, likely a negotiating process takes place where the traffic ticket resolution business tries to bid down fees paid to the attorney for appearing. This is because the business only needs the attorney appear in court because only licensed attorneys in Nevada may appear in Nevada courts. This structure is a purposeful end-run around law established to protect the public. The rub is that non attorney owned business probably believes that not much work is needed on the part of the attorney, so it does not want to pay much to the attorney to perform the work. If this is so, than the attorney appearing for the citation resolution business will likely not be very motivated to pay attention to your matter. A possible effect is poor results on your traffic citation. In my office, my motivation is to provide you with representation. I do not have the bid-down conflict of interest that may interfere with your matter.