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Best Practice Guide: Collaborating with law firms effectively across the portfolio management lifecycle

Qualco

Collaboration with law firms and Debt Collection Agencies (DCAs) is an integral part of modern collections and recoveries practices. Involving law firms across the debt management lifecycle. Law firms or DCAs are not only involved in the final stage of the debt collections. Undertrained call center agents.

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Medical Debt Collection Harms Patient Finances

Collection Industry News

Marcott was assisted by ABC for Health, a nonprofit, public interest law firm in Madison. In a recent report reviewing 5,023 lawsuits to collect unpaid medical bills by five health systems in Wisconsin from 2017 to 2019, the firm found that health systems were always represented by attorneys, but less than 1% of patients were.

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Paperless in a Pinch: How to Get There from Here

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

By now, the vast majority of law firms want to run paperless offices; the problem is often figuring out the logistics -- especially for law firms with decades of history (and files) behind them. If they do, it usually means more business for the law firm, as past clients tend to generate new referrals in this context.)

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The Limits On Direct And Vicarious Liability Under The FDCPA

FDCPA Defense

Debt buyers are being sued based on the conduct of their agencies and law firms. Retrieval Masters Creditor Bureau, Inc. , Retrieval Masters Creditor Bureau, Inc., Consumers and their attorneys are constantly seeking to expand the pool of potential FDCPA defendants using principles of vicarious liability. Goodman , 200 F.3d