If you are owed attorney’s fees and have not received payment, our law firm has the experience to pursue payment and attempt collection. Attorney’s fees are crucial—they ensure fair compensation for legal services rendered. When these fees go unpaid, they are treated as standard commercial debt. Leveraging our legal expertise, we pursue enforcement of the payment, employing available legal remedies to attempt to recover your money swiftly and effectively.
At our law firm, we treat the collection of attorney’s fees with the gravity it deserves. Unlike a collection agency, we avoid generic, ineffective letters and unnecessary communications with debtors. Our focus is on direct, legal actions from the start, understanding that this approach often expedites the payment process. Our team consists of experienced lawyers and legal assistants who are well-versed in the complexities of fee collection and we take effective steps to collect your money.
Fees due a firm from clients of a departing partner or associate are different than cases where the attorney is still with the firm. These cases occur when an attorney departed for a different firm and took clients with him/her.
We generally advise law firm clients to wait 1 year from clean disengagement to let the E & O statute to expire on routine collections. But departing attorney matters may be different. If a litigation matter, check the on-line court docket and review the status of the case to see if the departing attorney still represents the former client. If former clients are not paying your firm but still represented by the same attorney, we are willing to pursue contingent fee collection much earlier than a year. It is unlikely that the departed attorney would encourage your former client (their current client) to pursue a defense because that would challenge their own work.
When your firm first gets the feeling that the billings aren’t going to be paid timely, give an immediate Notice of Right to Non-Binding Arbitration (B&P 6142). Don’t explain what it means. You don’t really want non-binding arbitration. We calendar the 30 days and schedule litigation. We generally recommend swift action because the departing attorney must face their own client and new firm.
We offer our services on a contingency fee basis. We recover more money, more often than other attorneys or collectors. If you are a contingent fee client and we don’t recover, there is no fee for our services. The out-of-pocket filing fees for the court enforcement documents, motions, hearings, and liens and the fee for the process servers are generally small.
If you are owed over $10,000 for a commercial debt, note, sale of goods or services, loan or because you gave someone credit.
If you loaned money or sold goods or services on credit and didn’t get paid, you have a good case for recovery
If you sold your time or products and didn’t get paid, we will pursue rapid collection for you.
If your debt is related to a construction project, other remedies, liens and security can often be pursued.
Do you already have a California Judgment you haven’t collected? We are specialists in judgment enforcement techniques such as
If you have a Court Judgment or Order from a State other than California, it can be enforced against a California Debtor or property
Judgments issued in Foreign Countries against California Debtors or those with property in California can be collected by
If you have an award from an Arbitration that isn’t being paid, we can convert it to a judgment and pursue collection
