Avvo lawyer-rating site slapped with class action
 

*Source: News.com (http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9730291-7.html)*
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A lawyer-rating site that inexplicably gave convicted felons higher numeric scores than law school deans is, in a move that was entirely predictable (http://www.overlawyered.com/), being sued.

Avvo.com (http://www.avvo.com/), which launched on June 5, compiles data from state bar associations and tries to compute a numeric score between 1 and 10 for nearly every attorney in the country. It's received $14 million in funding from Benchmark Capital and Ignition Partners, co-founded by Microsoft alum and Avvo board member Brad Silverberg.

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