Consumer Debt Collection: Resolve Debts Quickly and Easily Training Class

Course ID: 13939

Consumer Debt Collection: Resolve Debts Quickly and Easily Training Seminar

Make Sure Clients Get Paid - In Full

Is this your situation? Someone owes your client money, but refuses to pay. When you intervene on your client's behalf, you run into a bewildering number of roadblocks in your effort to collect the debt, legally and quickly - without having to go to court.

If this sounds familiar, then this comprehensive seminar was designed for you. In one day, you'll learn dozens of real-life strategies for overcoming dead ends and legally collecting money owed your client - or even yourself. Avoid bad debt in the first place and save time, money and headaches down the road. Alleviate frustration and wasted time by properly responding to the judgment, post-judgment findings or bankruptcy. From personal guarantees to judgment liens, this seminar is packed with practical tools you'll use every day to recover a debt. In fact, even if you effectively implement only one of the techniques learned, you will more than cover the cost of this seminar in debts alleviated - and clients satisfied.

Tap into the advantages of self-help repossession.
Should you ever advise a client not to pursue the judgment?
Wage garnishment - how to turn it into a powerful collection tool.
Know when and how to use judgment liens on real property.
Navigate the tricky area of automatic stay.
Common and costly violations of the FDCPA - don't make these mistakes!


	Agenda
	PUT PREVENTATIVE PRACTICES TO WORK Michael R. Cline, 9:00 - 9:45 Red Flags When Starting Up Credit What You Can Learn From Analyzing Financial Statements Use Personal Guarantees to Prevent Problems How Security Interests Can Help With Prevention Put Limits on Invoice Terms IMPLEMENT SOLID PRE-SUIT COLLECTION STRATEGIES Michael R. Cline, 9:45 - 10:30 Why Knowing the Debtor is Critical Asset Investigation Methods You Can Count On Should or Shouldn't You Pursue Collection Pre-Suit Settlement Options - Urge Your Clients to Consider These! The Advantages of Self-Help Repossession COMPLY WITH THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT (FDCPA) Robert L. Bandy, 10:45 - 11:15 What the FDCPA Says - In a Nutshell How the FDCPA and State Laws Overlap The Provisions Under the FDCPA for Damages AVOID ETHICAL PITFALLS IN COLLECTIONS Robert L. Bandy, Michael R. Cline and Charles I. Jones Jr., 11:15 - 12:05 Follow Codes of Ethics Under Federal and State Laws How Zealous Representation and Vexatious Practices Become Ethical Nightmares How to Know Right From Wrong in Your Practice Your Liability as a Lawyer: Avoid Ethical "Gotchas" FILE A LAWSUIT WHEN PREVENTATIVE MEASURES FAIL Robert L. Bandy, 1:05 - 2:00 Pre-Judgment Remedies - What Many Lawyers Don't Know How to File the Lawsuit and Other Important Considerations How to Get the Judgment Your Client Rightfully Wants Post-Judgment Remedies: What Are Your Options? Tips for Determining Attorney's Fees COLLECT THE JUDGMENT Michael R. Cline, 2:00 - 3:00 Important Factors When Conducting Post-Judgment Discovery Conduct a Debtor's Examination and Make It Work for You Should You Pursue a Judgment Lien on Real Property? Judgment Liens on Personal Property: Hear This Before You Act How to Use a Writ of Execution to Start the Process of Seize and Sale by Sheriff Know Your Legal Wage Garnishment Options Which Property Is Exempt From Enforcement BANKRUPTCY AND COLLECTIONS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS Charles I. Jones Jr., 3:15 - 4:30 How Automatic Stay Impacts Your Client The Scope of Protection Provided By the Bankruptcy Code and Chapters 7, 13 and 11 Where to Find a Proof of Claim and How to File a Claim Objection Choose Between Reaffirmation and Redemption How Debtors Use Preferences and Fraudulent Conveyances to Your Disadvantage Exemptions - Don't Be Surprised by the Limits How to Contest the Dischargeability of Debts


	Audience
	This intermediate level seminar is designed for attorneys, collections practitioners, bankers, credit managers and other professionals who deal with collections everyday and want to collect more money owed - faster.