Account Recovery

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A District Court judge in Wisconsin has admonished the lawyer representing the defendant in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, calling him out for removing cases originally filed in state court to federal court five times, only then to file a motion for summary judgment in each case on the grounds the plaintiff lacked … The post Judge (..)

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BN Lawyers

APRIL 11, 2024

District Court for the Southern District of Texas which vacated a judgment entered by the U.S. The post Barron & Newburger Vacates Judgment Against Receiver Based on Barton Doctrine appeared first on Barron & Newburger, P.C. Sather obtained an order from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court against a State Court Receiver.

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Credit Corp

JUNE 3, 2020

A judgment is an order issued by a court of law. If they are successful, the court issues a judgment against you. What Happens After a Judgment Is Entered Against You? The court enters a judgment against you if your creditor wins their claim or you fail to show up to court. What Is a Judgment on Property?

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FFGN COLLECT NY

JUNE 2, 2022

The court has refused to prevent non-lawyers from the New York-based nonprofit Upsolve from offering legal advice to help consumers defend debt collection lawsuits. This goes against well-settled rules relating to legal advice that only a lawyer can dispel legal advice. But to allow non-lawyers to offer legal advice?

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Troutman Sanders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The law firm filed suit against the plaintiff in state court seeking judgment in the amount of the debt as well as “statutory attorney fees.” In granting the defendants’ motion, the district court held that the plaintiff did not suffer any actual injuries and “neither confusion, lost sleep, nor hiring a lawyer are concrete harms.”

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

And, lawyers: most of your clients, too, are working from home. No judgment here.) So, if you feel like your referral networking has fallen off, kick off your Adidas slides, and find a physical spot to hang with other lawyers. That’s awesome; and, that’s as it always should have been. They get it. Literally everyone gets it.

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Collections Law

APRIL 2, 2024

Securing an ex parte attachment to obtain pre-judgment security as part of a collections lawsuit can help to alleviate these concerns. In Massachusetts, a creditor can seek an attachment upon filing a lawsuit for a delinquent debt, prior to a judgment as well as after judgment in the case. At Law Offices of Alan M.

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Collections Law

APRIL 9, 2021

Very often your initial attorney who obviously excels at winning the case for you does not know the ins and outs of debt recovery or post-judgment collection. Cohen LLC have over 45 years of combined experience with post-judgment collection practices. Post-Judgment Discovery. Which do you think will get you paid faster?

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Collections Law

MAY 7, 2021

Winning your case in court is often the easy part of the legal debt collection process; it’s collecting your payment post-judgment where things get challenging and require a bit of strategy. One is through post-judgment discovery, where we work to follow your debtor’s money trail to find any assets that they may be attempting to hide.

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Jimerson Firm

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Effective May 1, 2021, Florida adopted the federal summary judgment standard. The new summary judgment standard substantively changed the standards courts apply when evaluating a motion for summary judgment, substantially changed the procedural rules applicable to summary judgment. In re Amends. 1.510 , 317 So.

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Collections Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Our lawyers are well-versed in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Our lawyers also understand the intricacies and nuances afforded by the state of Massachusetts that protect a creditor’s right to collect on debts owed to them.

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Taurus Collect

JULY 19, 2022

However, if you have enormous amounts pending in debts, say over £8,369,880, it is recommended to source your debts by hiring a lawyer. They will help you obtain a court-ordered judgment against your debtor to pay the money along with the interest.

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Collections Law

MARCH 19, 2024

Securing an ex parte attachment to obtain pre-judgment security as part of a collections lawsuit can help to alleviate these concerns. In Massachusetts, a creditor can seek an attachment upon filing a lawsuit for a delinquent debt, prior to a judgment as well as after judgment in the case. At Law Offices of Alan M.

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Collections Law

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Trying to collect on your foreign judgment can sometimes appear a futile effort with unfamiliar road blocks seeming to protect the judgment debtors. Cohen LLC apart from other collections lawyers is how we work with our clients. The Law Offices of Alan M. Cohen LLC does just that. What sets The Law Offices of Alan M.

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Collections Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Cohen LLC domesticate and enforce foreign judgments for clients outside Massachusetts. We’ve created this blog as a primer on how we handle foreign judgment cases, as well as examining the tools that we use to help business owners like you to collect their accounts receivables. Domesticating Your Judgment.

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Collections Law

JULY 6, 2021

Cohen LLC, you will find that the process of domesticating and enforcing foreign judgments against your debtors is a much more straightforward process than one would typically expect. Filing of Judgments. For out-of-state creditors, the commercial litigation collections lawyers at Law Offices of Alan M.

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FFGN COLLECT NY

JULY 23, 2020

In order to vacate, set aside, or remove a default judgment in New York, you must make a motion to the court in which the judgment was entered. The motion will contain a specific request for the court to vacate the judgment and return monies taken to satisfy the judgment. Two Methods for Vacating a Default Judgment.

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Collections Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Like nearly every other state as of 2020, Massachusetts finally adopted the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, allowing out-of-state judgments to be domesticated by Massachusetts attorneys. How We Can File Foreign Judgments for Domestication By Registration. Cohen LLC has experience with. Registration vs. Litigation.

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Collections Law

AUGUST 11, 2020

Whether you operate in or outside Massachusetts, if your customer to whom you had provided goods or rendered services on credit is located in Massachusetts and is not paying off your debt, then get in touch with our experienced and aggressive debt collection lawyer, Alan M. We Domesticate Foreign Judgments in Massachusetts.

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Collections Law

MAY 7, 2020

When we win your case, collecting the judgment may be made easier if monies were previously frozen by way of an ex parte bank or trustee attachment. The ex parte bank attachment is also a powerful tool our collections lawyers use to collect post judgment. The second is through what is called a special attachment motion.

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FFGN COLLECT NY

MAY 14, 2021

When calling a New York debt collection lawyer for help pursuing or defending a judgment obtained in New York or elsewhere, one of the top questions asked is whether the judgment was obtained on the merits or on default. What Is a Default Judgment? What Is a Judgment Obtained on the Merits?

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Account Recovery

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A District Court judge in Florida has chopped the amount of attorney’s fees to be awarded to the plaintiff’s counsel in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case by 75%, and called out the counsel for having a “vastly excessive” number of lawyers and paralegals work the case, which showed “a lack of judgment, poor … (..)

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Collection Industry News

MAY 30, 2022

New Yorkers facing debt-collection lawsuits are poised to get a little extra help in the wake of a federal court’s ruling — and some observers say it could translate to a win for consumers across the country who have basic legal questions but can’t afford a lawyer. Volunteers would offer the advice after training, according to court papers.

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Collections Law

APRIL 1, 2020

Collecting debts from debtors having assets in Massachusetts while you are in another state or a different country used to be difficult, even if you had a judgment against them. Massachusetts was among the few states that had not adopted the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgment Act. Not Just Domestication — Enforcement, Too.

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Collections Law

APRIL 9, 2021

Very often your initial attorney who obviously excels at winning the case for you does not know the ins and outs of debt recovery or post-judgment collection. Cohen LLC have over 45 years of combined experience with post-judgment collection practices. These types of situations are where post-judgment discovery comes into play.

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Collections Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Like nearly every other state as of 2020, Massachusetts finally adopted the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, allowing out-of-state judgments to be domesticated by Massachusetts attorneys. We file your judgment with the court clerk, who will then give notice to your debtor. Cohen LLC has experience with.

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Public Citizen

APRIL 23, 2021

Some lawyers (I'll call them "objecting lawyers") say that they got wind of an effort by Monsanto to pay a tort plaintiff to appeal a claim that the plaintiff lost in federal district court. If you were Monsanto's lawyer would you participate in a deal like the one the objecting lawyers allege occurred here?

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Collections Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Cohen LLC can create and implement a plan for debt recovery to enhance your bad debt recovery and enforce judgments that you have previously obtained or that they win on your behalf. The United States Constitution requires states to honor judgments of other states as decided by their courts. The Law Offices of Alan M.

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Troutman Sanders

AUGUST 10, 2020

Michael Seabright, in the District of Hawaii, denied a Defendant debt collector’s motion for summary judgment. DNF moved for summary judgment, arguing that it never communicated with Viernes because DNF’s lawyers, not DNF, filed the debt collection lawsuit. On July 31, Judge J.

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Collections Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We work to attempt to shut down games and trickery At our firm, our collections lawyers do not tolerate delays or excuses. Obtaining a judgment whether procedurally or at trial. Commencing post-judgment collection efforts: Getting a judgment is the first step. At Law Offices of Alan M.

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Collections Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

After going through the appropriate channels to try to collect outstanding debt — to no avail, as methods such as letter writing and phone calls prove to be fruitless — the next step is turning to the debt collection lawyers at the Law Offices of Alan M. The experienced and relentless debt recovery attorneys at the Law Offices of Alan M.

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Collections Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Cohen LLC can create and implement a plan for debt recovery to enhance your bad debt recovery and enforce judgments that you have previously obtained or that they win on your behalf. The United States Constitution requires states to honor judgments of other states as decided by their courts. The Law Offices of Alan M.

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Collections Law

JUNE 14, 2023

In the United States, each state’s courts are bound to respect the judgments of other states’ courts, with limited exceptions. If you have obtained a judgment in your state only to learn the debtor no longer has any assets there, you can look to assets they have in other states, such as Massachusetts.

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Collections Law

MAY 23, 2023

Don’t hire a run-of-the-mill lawyer who will charge you to send letters that you’ve already sent. Battle tactics Before there is even a judgment against the debtor, we lay the groundwork for a successful collection. Once we have gotten the asset frozen, we immediately seek a legal judgment against your debtor. You get paid.

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Collections Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

After going through the appropriate channels to try to collect outstanding debt — to no avail, as methods such as letter writing and phone calls prove to be fruitless — the next step is turning to the debt collection lawyers at the Law Offices of Alan M. The experienced and relentless debt recovery attorneys at the Law Offices of Alan M.

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Collections Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A lawyer can do so much more than that. Prepare prejudgment motions: Prior to any sort of litigation, you can attempt to secure payment of the debt in advance of litigation through prejudgment motions to ensure that you don’t just get a judgment for the debt, you also get paid.

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Collections Law

APRIL 25, 2023

Only a lawyer can do what is necessary to force payment. We collect on Massachusetts debts and also on judgments from other states when the debtor or their property is in Massachusetts. This way, when we obtain a judgment against your debtor, the assets will be available to pay you. It’s labor intensive, and that’s costly.

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