NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

So, if you’re feeling a cash crunch in your law firm, look to a likely culprit: invoices that need to go out. Instead, adopt a time and billing or case management system that allows you to use ‘batch invoicing’, or the running and sending (via various mechanisms) of invoices to all of your clients, all at once.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Even at this late date, there are a number of law firms that continue to rely on paper-based time slips to track time. If you’re one of those law firms, here’s why that’s bad: A paper slip can be easily lost or destroyed. If it feels like time is not on your side, we can help.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 23, 2020

Apps like LiveScribe allow you to use smart pens and smart paper to capture traditional and nontraditional electronic notes via the traditional mechanism you still love. To get started, visit Red Cave's NCBA landing page , and start running your law practice like a business. Yes, it’s a real ink pen. Yes, it’s real paper.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

If you can engage your leads via a conversation al mechanism -- 9 times out of 10, you can convert them.? And, there's no reason that conversion can't occur after dinner. If you need help building a cost-effective intake tool that ensure you’re always on , we can help.

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Collections Law

APRIL 18, 2023

A mechanic’s lien gives builders, contractors and some others in the construction industry a collection mechanism that other industries don’t have. Do you still want to download a mechanic’s lien form from some online company? These companies are typically not law firms. The requirements are rigid.

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FFGN COLLECT NY

JUNE 12, 2022

If so your collection attorney is exposing you, the law firm, and themselves to personal liability for a money judgment that could far exceed your claim. Make sure when engaging collection counsel, whether it be for demand, mediation, arbitration, foreclosure of mechanics lien, or judgment recovery, they do the right thing.

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Credit Corp

JUNE 3, 2020

This can include utility companies, medical professionals, cell phone service providers and auto mechanic shops. John C Heath, Attorney at Law, PC, d/b/a Lexington Law Firm is an independent law firm that uses Progrexion as a provider of business and administrative services. Privacy Policy.

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Burr Forman

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Top Patent Law Firms of 2020 list released this month and highlighted in Law360 reveal Burr & Forman has moved up 144 spots in the rankings. The law firms recognized on the list must have obtained at least 50 U.S. utility patents in 2020 where they are listed on the front of the patent.

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Consumer Financial Services Law

MARCH 23, 2021

The debtor advanced seven discrete FDCPA claims in connection with the notice, although the law firm defendant successfully moved for summary judgment on six of those claims. The disclosure at issue placed the law firm in a somewhat awkward position. Wolpoff & Abramson, L.L.P. , 3d 292, 301 (2d Cir. Jackson , 988 F.2d

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FDCPA Defense

MAY 11, 2017

When, if ever, should collection law firms include disclaimers on their collection letters, indicating that no attorney of the firm has reviewed the particular circumstances of the debtor’s file? Jackson, Attorney at Law, General Counsel, NCB Collection Services” – and defendant attorney’s mechanically-reproduced “signature.”

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FFGN COLLECT NY

APRIL 21, 2022

By choosing to enlist the help of a debt collection law firm you can take advantage of a number of different debt collection options to assist in the collection of monies owed to you. Understanding the options available to you and your tolerance for risk will allow you to make a better business decision. The ability to lien is limited.

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FDCPA Defense

APRIL 17, 2019

Indeed, the “meaningful attorney involvement” theory has been embraced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) in its enforcement actions against large creditors’ rights law firms. Your law firm is also named a defendant. Law Offices Of Mitchell N. At the end of that week, however, things go sour.

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PDC Flow

MARCH 16, 2021

Here are just a few examples of how your business can take advantage of FLOW notifications: Your law firm employee may need to know when they receive a completed FLOW (like a signature and payment) so that they can immediately take the next step in their workflow – such as preparing legal documents that must be sent next.

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Collection Industry News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which ruled in October 2022 that the CFPB’s funding mechanism violated the Constitution’s appropriations clause. In the current case, the CFSA trade group sued the CFPB in 2018, seeking to invalidate a 2017 rule that cracked down on payday lenders. The case was ultimately heard by the U.S.

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FFGN COLLECT NY

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This can include notice of default, notice of non-payment, notice of pendency, notice under mechanics lien, notice that a debt collection claim has been filed or, that a judgment has been entered. The firm filed an action to file the judgment in New York, served the defendants, and enforced the judgment.

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FDCPA Defense

MARCH 23, 2015

Judgment Enforcement Law Firm, PLLC , 2014 WL 1744268, **3-4 (W.D. 30, 2014) (section 1692f(8) violated by use of name “Judgment Enforcement Law Firm” on envelope); Rutyna v. Courts have held that collectors may violate section 1692f(8) simply by placing their own name on the envelope. See, e.g., Keasey v. 980, 982 (N.D.

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The McHughes Law Firm

JUNE 22, 2016

In addition, the waiver or postponement of a legal right by the creditor, such as the institution of a law suit to collect an overdue account, or the filing of a mechanics lien , will be construed as consideration by the courts in most jurisdictions. appeared first on McHughes Law Firm.

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FDCPA Defense

JANUARY 28, 2012

Debt buyers are being sued based on the conduct of their agencies and law firms. 2005) (“Scally offers no facts suggesting that Hilco controlled either the mechanisms or the content of MRS's contact with debtors, other than to outline general principles by which MRS would abide: i.e., observing the requirements of the FDCPA.”).

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Collection Industry News

JULY 25, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit signaled their view that the CFPB’s funding mechanism violates the Constitution’s separation of powers because it happens outside of the congressional appropriations process. TransUnion argues that the CFPB’s funding from the Federal Reserve violates the constitution’s appropriations clause.

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Collection Industry News

MAY 23, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit signaled their view that the CFPB’s funding mechanism violates the Constitution’s separation of powers because it happens outside of the Congressional appropriations process. But there is no severability clause for the CFPB’s funding mechanism. Earlier this month, five judges on the U.S.

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