The Chiafullo Group, LLP (“the Group”) offers its FFLGuard program as real-time legal services. FFLGuard IS NOT INSURANCE and IS NOT PRE-PAID LEGAL SERVICES. Instead, participating in the Group’s FFLGuard program (“the Program”) forms an active lawyer/client relationship between you – a valid federal firearms licensee – and the Group, as your counsel, and/or the Group’s co-counsel and/or agents.
Through your FFLGuard engagement agreement with the Group, you authorize it to act according to certain guiding principles as the National Coordinating Counsel for the Program. The Group maintains oversight, administration, marketing, advertising and promotion of the Program while delegating authority to other “like-minded” lawyers, acting as co-counsel, to collaboratively and cooperatively represent all FFLGuard clients as a united front. In effect, each FFLGuard client retains FFLGuard legal counsel, subject matter experts or other professionals through the National Coordinating Counsel’s office and “shares” these professionals with other Program participants.
National Coordinating Counsel designates these “like-minded” legal-types to act under two specific internal groups: Consulting & Advisory and Field Operations. The Field Operations Group has three specific branches: Special Operations, Regional Counsel and Professional Services. All segments are composed of firearms-specific lawyers, subject matter experts, and professionals (many or most of whom are former ATF employees) who are peerless in their field, and whom lawyers with limited firearms-specific experience refer to regarding firearms-related issues.
All FFLGuard clients have access to FFLGuard lawyers, subject matter experts, and professionals through the framework of the Program, without expending the money necessary to hire them independently or at their normal and customary rate. FFLGuard then shares information among all FFLGuard clients through a number of different mediums and methods. The information shared among FFLGuard counsel and clients alone is worth the $7 per day equivalent that each client pays as part of its yearly fee.
