I called around quite a bit.
I found out that this is a REAL case. It takes place here:
C. Clyde Atkins United States Courthouse
301 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33128
(305) 523-5100
Case number: 1:2010cv23235
The clerk's office confirmed the case and that Kardonick is indeed filing against Chase.
It took me the FTC and the ABA then the internet. Odd that this person doesn't have an office, or that the PO Box for this is Philadelphia but the case is taking place in Southern Florida.
So how do we know that this is not a case of a scammer that discovered the case in Florida, lifted the name of the plaintiff attorney, and set up a scam operation in Philadelphia? Did your research show the PO Box in Philly as part of the filing in Florida (e.g. following the chain of trust)?
Just because Kardonick is real, and really filing against Chase, does NOT mean that someone cannot discover the case and pretend to be a part of the case by using the same name(s) and use that to collect info. YOU could even do that based on what research you appear to have done. And at this point I do not know that you aren't a scammer.
A URL that actually goes to a government/court domain name that provides information that connects back to the PO Box in Philly would be a likely path of trust. It is possible that the government/court website could be infiltrated and provide false info, but at least then it would be the government/court to blame for improper website operation (e.g. failure to be secure enough to prevent altered information).
Do you have such a URL?
If the case document lists Heffler, Radetich & Saitta as the attorneys, and if you have called this attorney office and they have stated they are operating the kardonicksettlement.com website, then that is good enough ... for you. I don't know YOU, so I don't know that they really are just because YOU say so. If I wanted to be in this class, I'd have to find out for myself in a trustable way that HRS are the attorneys of record, and call them MYself. Statements by new posters with only 2 posts so far doesn't cut it for me (I work in data/network security).