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One year ago, Plaintiff Navient – a student loan and collection company – flipped a switch and sued copious plaintiff-lawyers in Navient v. Law Offices of Jeffrey Lohman. Navient alleged a devious plot, hatched to bilk Navient out of millions. Navient claimed that these plaintiff-lawyers hunted student borrowers with debt to Navient, convinced them to stop paying Navient, and to instead pay them to renegotiate their debts. The mucho unkosher part is how the plaintiff-lawyers stirred up consumer claims. As alleged in the original complaint:
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