Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in New York

I am a small graphic design business LLC operating for over 25 years, I have a client that I have been doing business with for 3 years and as of March 2009 have not received payment for services rendered to date for an amount of $20,000. I have contacted them but they ignore my phone calls and emails.


Asked on 8/19/09, 1:28 pm

2 Answers from Attorneys

Eric Schutzer The Schutzer Group, PLLC

I believe you need to take the next step quickly, which may be suing the client to protect yourself in case they file bankruptcy.

I will handle this matter for you on a contingency fee arrangement even if I have to sue your client, which means I do not charge you a fee unless I collect.

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I am a graduate of Columbia University and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. I have fifteen years of experience representing creditors nationwide.

My law firm is located in MIDTOWN MANHATTAN and is staffed by a team of experienced attorneys extensively trained in Federal, State and local laws affecting the collection industry. Our approach is persistence and insistence, while always maintaining a high level of professionalism. We know you have a reputation to maintain and so do we, therefore we always treat your debtors with care and respect. We also utilize the latest technologies to skip trace and locate debtor�s assets. I believe the combination of my personnel, company philosophy and collection techniques are responsible for the high rate of success and the ability to collect accounts where the competition has failed.

Although we make every effort to resolve your bills with your clients on a voluntary basis, when legal action is proper, you can rest assured we will not let your accounts stagnate in order to avoid fee splitting with outside counsel like other collection agencies.

After obtaining a judgment, me and my team, using our knowledge and experience along with the latest technologies including special access to private and public databases, are able to recover the full amount of the judgments plus any accrued interest by: finding debtors anywhere in the U.S.; locating their employer and garnishing their wages; locating their bank accounts and seizing them; uncovering stocks & bond accounts and taking them; locating real estate and personal property and levying and/or put liens on them; locating their spouses assets and attacking them; discovering assets which were transferred to another person or company to avoid paying a judgment and seizing them; and with regard to corporate debts, attacking the personal assets of the underlying owner. We have become recognized as leader in the field and our services are commonly utilized by many large institutions representing a broad spectrum of industries as well as by fellow attorneys who have previously been unsuccessful in their attempts to collect their client's judgments.

The best part of all is our fee is based on a simple percentage of the money we collect for our clients, so if we are unsuccessful, our clients are not responsible to pay anything for our services.

Let me know if you have any questions or would like to schedule a face to face meeting.

Very truly yours,

Eric P. Schutzer, Esq.

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Answered on 8/24/09, 2:08 pm
Michael Markowitz Michael A. Markowitz, PC

You may have to commence an action against the client. Sometimes I send a demand letter - for a nominal fee. Sending the demand letter (by Federal Express) to long-standing clients sometimes has a beneficial result.

Mike.

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Answered on 8/24/09, 2:13 pm


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