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Helping Attorneys Collect Judgments: How do you help lawyers collect judgments?

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Lawyers will come to our firm and say we’ve got a judgement either for our own fees or in some cases just a collection where the lawyer is owed money but let’s go to the judgement where they’ve already gotten the judgement. And they’ll say we don’t’ really know how to collect. We’re not efficient, we’re not set up for that, can you help us? And I will again, go through the procedures that we use to locate assets, locate missing debtors, locate, and find their environment, their families, their friends, their golf club buddies and so forth. And then, we of course, must and will always assure them that their clients remain their clients. There’s a 100 percent guarantee that I will never ever take a client who I perhaps successfully collect for away from that lawyer.

I’ve had those clients come back to me two, three, and five years later say do you remember me five years ago such and such a lawyer brought me to you? And my first answer is that’s very nice, I’m glad that you liked our service but you have to go back to your lawyer and he has to refer you. Well, I don’t use him anymore. I don’t care, you have to go back to that lawyer who brought you to my law firm for collection I will not handle your case. And I’ve had people be pushy and I’ve said that is a 100 percent inflexible position. If anyone ever thinks that their clients could somehow come on over to your practice lawyers would be petrified, they wouldn’t come to you. So my guarantee is 100 percent absolutely will never take a client and we will always, always respect that client as being your client forever.

Los Angeles, CA commercial debt collection attorney Ronald P. Slates talks about respecting clients from other law firms in which he’s involved with in a case.

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