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Collecting Debts for Your Law Firm & Third Parties 2024

Product ID: CA3719R6
Presented By: State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE

What to know when someone owes

Are you or your client owed money and losing patience? You’ll want to think twice before firing off a sternly worded collection letter. Debt collection can lead to burdensome legal tangles for everyone involved. It requires knowledge of the relevant rules, regulations, and risks. 

At Collecting Debts for Your Law Firm and Third Parties, you’ll gain perspectives from a creditor’s attorney, a consumer lawyer, and a malpractice claims attorney. They’ll walk you through the steps necessary to collect a debt owed to your clients, including:

  • Vetting the debt
  • Complying with the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA)
  • Declining to pursue the debt
  • Common mistakes and pitfalls
  • Preventing malpractice, avoiding counterclaims, and minimizing liability 
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Pricing

Member $119.00

Non-Member $169.00

Credits

1.5 CLE

Date and Time

Friday, January 03, 202512:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT

Add to Calendar 1/3/2025 12:00:00 PM 1/3/2025 1:30:00 PM America/Chicago Collecting Debts for Your Law Firm & Third Parties 2024

What to know when someone owes

Are you or your client owed money and losing patience? You’ll want to think twice before firing off a sternly worded collection letter. Debt collection can lead to burdensome legal tangles for everyone involved. It requires knowledge of the relevant rules, regulations, and risks. 

At Collecting Debts for Your Law Firm and Third Parties, you’ll gain perspectives from a creditor’s attorney, a consumer lawyer, and a malpractice claims attorney. They’ll walk you through the steps necessary to collect a debt owed to your clients, including:

  • Vetting the debt
  • Complying with the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA)
  • Declining to pursue the debt
  • Common mistakes and pitfalls
  • Preventing malpractice, avoiding counterclaims, and minimizing liability 
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What to know when someone owes

Are you or your client owed money and losing patience? You’ll want to think twice before firing off a sternly worded collection letter. Debt collection can lead to burdensome legal tangles for everyone involved. It requires knowledge of the relevant rules, regulations, and risks. 

At Collecting Debts for Your Law Firm and Third Parties, you’ll gain perspectives from a creditor’s attorney, a consumer lawyer, and a malpractice claims attorney. They’ll walk you through the steps necessary to collect a debt owed to your clients, including:

  • Vetting the debt
  • Complying with the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA)
  • Declining to pursue the debt
  • Common mistakes and pitfalls
  • Preventing malpractice, avoiding counterclaims, and minimizing liability 
Read More ↓

Matthew M. Beier, Claims Attorney with Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company (WILMIC), Matt provides professional claims service to WILMIC’s insured lawyers. He works to investigate, evaluate, and resolve claims as efficiently as possible. Before joining WILMIC in November 2016, Matt was a civil litigation attorney in Madison with experience before state and federal courts and Wisconsin administrative agencies. He has broad experience in diverse areas of law, including personal injury, employment, contract, business, commercial, and debtor-creditor law. Matt is a 1996 graduate of South Dakota State University with a degree in political science. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2000.

Jay D. Koritzinsky is the senior member of Koritzinsky and Karls, LLC in Madison, whose law practice focuses on landlord-tenant law, fair housing issues, residential and commercial real estate transactions, and collections. Jay received his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin—Madison and is a 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has done extensive lecturing throughout the state on landlord-tenant issues, fair housing law, and collection matters. 

Briane F. Pagel, Jr. believes everyone who needs a lawyer should have a lawyer. He has dedicated his career to helping consumers assert their rights against those who try to take unfair advantage of people, including litigating claims alleging illegal debt collection and repossession, violations of home improvement and car dealer/mechanic regulations, fraudulent sales and representations, and foreclosure defense. Since 1998 Briane has forced banks and other corporations to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees to his clients and has helped establish state and federal precedent that provides increased protections to debtors and other consumers. Briane represents people all over the state and has litigated cases in nearly every county in Wisconsin, as well as in federal courts. Briane has received awards for his commitment to social justice, gives several seminars per year to teach other lawyers how to litigate consumer law cases, and was asked by the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin to sit on a committee that disciplines lawyers for ethics violations.  

  • Learn the steps for collecting a debt owed to a client
  • Gain insight from creditors’ rights, consumer law, and malpractice claims lawyers
  • Avoid potential mistakes and traps in the debt collection process
  • Know the legal nuances between collecting debts for a client versus your firm
  • Understand your liability and exposure to malpractice when collecting debts 
  • Discover how to manage unpaid legal bills without filing suit 
  • Collections lawyers
  • Creditor-Debtor lawyers
  • Business lawyers
  • Solo and small firm lawyers
  • General practitioners
  • Paralegals
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