I just got off the phone with a consumer attorney who is representing one of my clients. This client is being sued by one of the big collection agencies and they are throwing everything they can at this poor guy and his mother, interrogatories, discovery, etc. At my suggestion (although I always suggest […]

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I get this question a lot - “I’m being sued by a collection agency - do you know of a good attorney?”. We do present a list of consumer attorneys on our website, but the list is not complete. Consumer attorneys are few and far between and in some states and counties in […]

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Just received this email, and thought it was interesting AND important to put out there.
My case was dismissed for lack of evidence on behalf of the collector who admitted they didn’t have anything. How do I go about removing this mark on my credit report?
You would dispute the tradeline with the credit bureaus as […]

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In March, Dennis J. Herrera, San Francisco’s city attorney, sued National Arbitration Firm, (NAF), a for-profit company based in Minneapolis which specializes in resolving claims by banks, credit card companies, and major retailers that contend consumers owe them money. In the suit, Herrera accused the NAF, which handles many firms in California state court, […]

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It’s kinda like paying for a movie and being forced to sit through commercials before seeing it. I recently reviewed a client’s purchased tri-merged credit report and noticed something I’d never seen before: there were one to two ads per page on the report. The credit report service will remain nameless. […]

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Here is a great illustration of laziness or paralysis (or something) that I see all the time. One of our readers was being taken to court over a debt. The lawsuit was so poorly filed that he could have easily fought it and won without a lawyer. Despite voluminous advice given (and […]

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Yesterday, USA Today published an article on the absues of debt collectors (who we all know as collection agencies).
USA Today Article.
It’s great this is getting more press, as it is a real problem. Of course, the comments on this article were predictable “hey, just pay your debts” was the most common comment. I’m […]

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A client of mine was sued, and did the proper thing, answered the complaint immediately. Well, now the lawyers for a major Junk Debt Buyer in the Collection Industry whom I’ll just call JDB Collections for this post. I even recognized the law firm representing JBD Collections, who handles most of their cases. […]

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It’s what I’ve told my clients about 1000 times…don’t panic when a collection agency sues you. You can EASILY beat it.
From the blog of a Michigan attorney:
I love defending people against debt buyers because the Plaintiffs case is as strong as a house of cards in a hurricane. Debt buyers buy judgments, credit card […]

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On our discussion boards, this thread caught my eye:
http://www.debt-consolidation-credit-repair-service.com/forums/showthread.php?t=284667
Hello everyone. Just got back from court ordered arbitration. It went surprisingly well. I did have quite a surprise when the attorney for the plaintiff (capital one) entered all my forum entries related to this case off this forum into evidence. Since it is a public forum […]

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