When Federal Trade Commission staff attorney Christopher Keller wrote a letter to a Washington state lawyer last April, he never guessed it would create a fire storm in the employment bar.
But Keller’s letter has raised significant questions about the degree to which the 1996 Fair Credit Reporting Act may undercut the ability of lawyers to conduct workplace investigations — a lucrative business that many, primarily small firms, have jumped into in recent years.
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