And when you told the bank president or branch manager what the teller had done, what did he/she say would be done about it? If you haven't complained to the bank management yet, that really should be your first step. Prepare for that by looking at your bank's privacy policy. Federal law requires every financial institution to have one and to make it available to customers. It will likely say that the disclosures the bank can make are limited and likely don't cover the disclosures the teller made. If that's the case, point out to the bank officials that the teller's disclosures violated the privacy policy and ask what the bank will do about it.
How did you learn that your employer's daughter-in-law told people about your bank account?
Based on what is described by Ciara, an attorney is unlikely to offer a contingency fee agreement - and attorney fees, pain and suffering, and punitive damages are highly unlikely.
Such is not the case for situation described by the OP.
Probable cause is a criminal law concept and does not apply here. The problem for the OP is that there is nothing to pursue if the OP has not suffered any actual damages from the teller's actions.
Spamming a whole bunch of law firms with e-mail is not a terribly effective way to find a lawyer. Many firms, mine included, simply trash such e-mails. If you want to find out if you have a case and if you do whether the attorney would be interested in taking it then the best way to do that is call for an appointment and meet with the attorney.
I agree. Probable cause puts a reasonable person to investigate further on whether to prusue a case, but it has no merit in civil cases. It's been important for me in terms of whether I wanted to further investigate and decide to take a matter to small claims or not. I should have put more context, my bad; and as I said, some statues, for example, data driver's privacy protection act, allow punitive damages to be recovered in violations.
I disagree there. I have used this option a good amount of times. It's helped build criteria of lawyers who agreed to my fee cap, and service terms, and I've had yet to run into a problem with working with such lawyers in the wayy past.
Not really. But alright.
Your experience in sending emails to several attorneys is not the best way to find an attorney. The emails will either not be read or will be trashed.
I disagree based off my prior experiernce. But every area has different set of cirucmstances. Regardless, let's hope OP gets something positive out of this.
I hope Ciara has good luck.
Sadly, since the teller is her boss's daughter in law, getting the teller in any kind of trouble is likely to cause Clara significant trouble as well.
True. But it doesn't sound as if there is a relationship worth saving. And the firing is probably the most she should expect without demonstrable damages.
Correction: Spamming a whole bunch of law firms with e-mail is not a terribly effective way to find an experienced, reputable lawyer.