Pre-Paid Legal Services Defeats the Shorts, According to Flaherty Financ. News - WEST HARRISON, N.Y. - (Business Wire) - July 13, 2007 - Flaherty Financial News first issue is devoted to an overview of the bitter seven-year bear raid at Pre-Paid Legal Services. Flaherty's conclusion: the short sellers have finally been defeated and are in full retreat as PPD shares have hit record levels. The once bloated short position of 11.7 million shares has shrunk 88% to only 1.4 million shares...

Pre-Paid Legal Services Enjoys Great Business Model, Few Competitors  Posted on May 18th, 2007 with stocks: PPD Seeking Alpha - New York, NY, USA  Alex Shadunsky submits: Pre-Paid Legal Services (PPD) ... sells exactly what its name states, pre-paid legal services. ...

Pre-Paid Legal cancels buy-back plan [Registration Required]  Source: Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, NewsOK.com, News9 (OK) 11/15/06 7:45 AM (468714266)
Pre-Paid Legal Services on Tuesday abruptly canceled a planned stock purchase just four days after announcing it would pay $27.4 million to buy 12 percent of four company insiders' holdings. ...  executives acknowledge that the stock buy-back could hurt short sellers, who are betting that share prices will fall.

Strange Doings Afoot At Pre-Paid Legal  Seeking Alpha  Posted on Nov 13th, 2006 ... Pre-Paid Legal (PPD) announced a share buy back of 639,000 shares from four insiders. The deal was priced by the closing trade on Friday. Approved by the Board, the purchase represents 11 to 12 days of trading volume according to the trailing 3 month daily volume average. ... The company apparently did not want to sell the shares on the open market. Hmm.

Business down at legal company  Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, NewsOK.com, News9 7/4/06 7:42 AM  ... sales associates recruited during the quarter to Pre-Paid's multilevel marketing network totaled 45,517, a 53 percent decline from the number that signed up in the ...

Pre-Paid Legal Toll Mounts  TheStreet.com 12/15/05 9:56 AM  ... grow the customer base. It relies heavily on multilevel marketing, a controversial selling strategy made famous by Amway. Go to RELATED STORIES Market Features ...

Verdict Hammers Pre-Paid  Yahoo! News  11/16/05 3:20 PM  ... the opportunity to sell its policies through the multilevel marketing technique made famous by Amway. Pre-Paid critics claim that the company targets the working poor, ...

Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. Announces Litigation Developments  September 12, 2005   Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. announced that a putative class action lawsuit originally filed in 2002 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma against it and certain of its executive officers in the matter of Caroline Sandler, et al. v. Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., et al has been dismissed voluntarily. This case involved various claims on behalf of associates relating to the Company's marketing plan. The Company also announced recent post trial developments in a Mississippi lawsuit, Laura Bradley et al. v. Pre-Paid. In a ruling last month, the Judge overturned the jury's finding of fraud and fraudulent misrepresentation on the grounds that the evidence was insufficient to support those claims, and reduced the damages awarded by the jury in the total amount of $45,000 to a total of $524.95.

Sep 9, 2004
PRE-PAID LEGAL SERVICES REPORTS CLASS CERTIFICATION DENIED

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