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Debtor Who Settled Fair-Collection Suit Can Request Fees
A ruling in a federal case opens the door to recovery of court-ordered legal fees even when settling parties don't provide for them.Non-Lawyers' Collection Demands Result in Class Action Settlement Against Firm
A Philadelphia law firm has agreed to pay more than $450,000 to settle a federal class action suit brought by consumers who said the firm used unfair and deceptive practices in collecting debts -- including sending out letters from non-lawyers that threaten the filing of a lawsuit. The settlement is close to the maximum the class could have won at trial.By Nardelli, J.P., Andrias, Ellerin, Lerner, Marlow, JJ. 3633 In re Carmine Montemarano pet-ap, v. Gregory V. Serio, Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New
Nixon Peabody Partner Set to Depart for General Counsel Job
A high-ranking Nixon Peabody partner has announced plans to leave the firm to take a job as general counsel of Catholic Health Services of Long Island. David A. DeCerbo, a health care partner in the firm's Jericho, N.Y., office, will leave Nixon Peabody at the end of the month. DeCerbo's pending move comes amid other departures from the high ranks of Nixon Peabody, particularly in Manhattan, where large groups of partners joined DLA Piper and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman this summer.Judge Who Scoffed at Dispute Between Former Law Partners Is Reversed
A trial judge had an obligation to hold a plenary hearing on disputed issues in a suit between two former law firm partners, even if he thought the matter petty and unworthy of the lawyers involved, a New Jersey appeals court rules.NY Courts Sue to Vacate 100,000 Default Judgments Over Process Server Scandal
Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 19, No. 208 - October 28 2010
Daily decision alert.Suit Aims to Vacate 100,000 Judgments
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo is demanding information from dozens of debt collection law firms throughout the state as part of a civil lawsuit to overturn more than 100,000 faulty default judgments, he announced yesterday. The suit, filed on behalf of Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau, asks the court to vacate all default judgments where the sole evidence that a defendant received service notifying him that he was being sued was an affidavit from American Legal Process. William Singler, American Legal Process' owner, was arrested on charges of fraud and other felonies in April.Corporate Transparency Act Resource Kit
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