Blog Posts in 2016

We were retained by a client living in Arizona who had 5 NY judgments on his credit report and was distraught by the effect these judgments were having on his credit score and ability to obtain ...

On Monday, the Second Circuit ruled that Andrew Benzemann should be allowed to sue Citibank after his account was frozen while the bank tried to collect another customer’s debt. This case stems from ...

We were recently retained for two cases where our clients had very similar issues regarding property liens due to judgments improperly entered against them. In the first case, the client’s deceased ...

This client initially contacted our firm after his bank account was frozen due to a New York judgment that had been entered against him in 2003. He had already moved to Florida at that time and was ...

As of July 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it intends to overhaul the debt collection market by capping collector contact attempts and by ensuring that companies have ...

In late October, a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of New York granted summary judgment in an action taken by the FTC against a group of abusive debt ...