Commercial Litigation and Collection

Handle Suits for Monies Due

• Prepare filing, and serving all pleadings as required by publication, on insurance commissioner, out-of-state, out-of-country, on state, on U.S.A., by mail on corporate and individual debtors
• Draft appropriate demand letters and correspondence as required for suits on open accounts, promissory notes, dishonored checks, replevin, unlawful detainer, quiet title, lien and mortgage foreclosure actions, receivership actions, pre-judgment attachment and garnishment, contractors' bond claims, adversary proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, breach of contract, general commercial collection actions, personal injury, and insurance subrogation matters.
• Draft motions.
• Draft declarations and affidavits in support of orders.
• Draft orders for summary judgment memoranda and pleadings in opposition to summary judgment.
• Draft motions, declarations, and orders for filing defaults or orders required in case.
• Schedule and process the case for arbitration proceedings.
• Prepare declarations for attorney fees and costs, cost bills, assignment of judgments or claims, and judgments.
• Record judgments and register judgments in other counties, districts, states or countries.
• Prepare documents to set aside judgments and settlement/satisfaction of judgments, as well as extend judgments for ten years pursuant to statutes, administrative codes, and court rules.
• Enter ex parte orders directly with presiding judge or court commissioner.

Investigate Claims

• Search for assets.
• Skip trace.
• Perform factual research.
• Research public documents, including but not limited to, retrieving UCC's, court records, Dun & Bradstreet reports, Secretary of State and Department of Licensing filings. Coordinate searches for public records and investigations as required.

Collecting Judgments

• Prepare, file and serve all pleadings and transmitting correspondence as required for garnishment actions, charging orders, and wage assignments, including preparation of wage, financial or other writs of garnishment, applications for writ, answers, exemption pleadings, judgment on answers of garnishees, and disbursement of garnishment funds as required, default of garnishees.
• Prepare orders to quash/discharge writs.
• Prepare orders to extend period of garnishment action, and dismissal of garnishee from action.
• Prepare answers to garnishment actions.
• Processing DSHS Orders to Withhold and Deliver.
• Handle IRS levies on wages, salary, and other income.
• Draft, file, and serve all pleadings, including motions, declarations, orders, information requested, and bench warrant pleadings.
• Transmit correspondence as required for supplemental proceedings/debtors' exams.
• Process bench warrants for contempt of court.
• Coordinate debtors' arrest and appearance in court with County Sheriff or U.S. Marshal and the court.
• Draft, file and serve all pleadings and transmitting correspondence as required for supplemental interrogatories and supplemental depositions of judgment debtor.
• Draft, file, record and serve all pleadings and transmit correspondence as required for execution on real and personal property assets, as related to chattel and materialmen's lien notices, claims of lien and foreclosure actions, mortgage foreclosure actions, and satisfaction of judgments, including coordinating County Sheriff or U.S. Marshal's levy on property assets.
• Post or publish notice of sale.
• Seek court and County Sheriff or U.S. Marshal indemnity bonds from appropriate agents.
• Prepare, file, record, serve all pleadings, and transmit correspondence as required for foreclosing deeds of trust, mortgages, chattel liens, materialmen's liens, and real estate contracts.
• Prepare court pleadings and documentation to secure amounts due, including confessions of judgment, deeds in lieu of foreclosure, settlement agreements, stipulated judgments, promissory notes secured by deeds of trust, UCC financing statements and security agreements, and attending to supersedeas bonds and stays on appeal.