New York City Debt Collection Defense Attorney

Blog Posts in 2011

All Posts
  • Palisades Acquisition XVI, LLC and Cohen & Slamowitz, LLP fail to appear in court to face our challenge to their money judgment and bank restraint
    Palisades Acquisition XVI, LLC and Cohen & Slamowitz, LLP fail to appear in court to face our challenge to their money judgment and bank restraint

    The lesson here is that if a creditor has frozen your bank account, call us right away to 1) claim your exemptions; and 2) attack the judgment upon with the bank attachment is premised. Our client was ...

    Read More
  • The Langel Firm wins Summary Judgment against Pressler and Pressler, LLP for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for knowingly attempting to collect from the wrong man
    The Langel Firm wins Summary Judgment against Pressler and Pressler, LLP for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for knowingly attempting to collect from the wrong man

    Pressler & Pressler, LLP ("Pressler") targeted our client to pay the debt of another man with a nearly identical name. The actual debtor lived in a different county. He was sued and defaulted in a ...

    Read More
  • Why debt buyers have difficulty enforcing collection lawsuits.
    Why debt buyers have difficulty enforcing collection lawsuits.

    The short answer: The Hearsay Evidence Rule. This rule prohibits the admission into evidence of statements – oral or written – made by an out-of-court witness offered to prove the truth of the matters ...

    Read More
  • The Langel Firm overturns $266,382 judgment and compels dismissal of case
    The Langel Firm overturns $266,382 judgment and compels dismissal of case

    The lesson here is that regardless of the size or procedural status of a legal claim for money, any money judgment based on bad service is attackable. In this case (anonymity requested), our client ...

    Read More
  • Palisades Collection, LLC and Pressler & Pressler, LLP sued for filing successive, jurisdictionally defective lawsuits against consumer
    Palisades Collection, LLC and Pressler & Pressler, LLP sued for filing successive, jurisdictionally defective lawsuits against consumer

    The front page of the New York Law Journal (Nov. 4, 2011) housed this torturous story about an Erie County woman who took it upon herself to hold accountable a debt buyer, Palisades Collection, LLC, ...

    Read More
  • Palisades' Repeated Calls to Non-Debtor Not Barred By TCPA, Western District Holds
    Palisades' Repeated Calls to Non-Debtor Not Barred By TCPA, Western District Holds

    Does the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) provide any protection when a debt collector repeatedly telephones someone who is not the debtor? Federal courts accross the United States are split ...

    Read More