Among the many strategies used in debt collection law, there are attachments. And with attachments, there are two types – with notice to the defendant and without (ex parte). Generally speaking, courts are reluctant to issue ex parte attachments on real estate because...
Knowledge is power, even more so when it comes to collecting money from a deadbeat client who refuses to pay. Exceptional Massachusetts debt collection strategy requires knowing how to use court rules, case law and statutory tools to best help businesses collect debt....
The case snippets and West head notes below come from a case that Massachusetts Collections Attorney Alan M. Cohen brought on behalf of a prominent Boston Patent Law Firm to collect unpaid attorneys fees from out of state clients. In the opinion below, Judge Wolf...
The Massachusetts Long Arm Statute, M.G. L. c. 223A § 3, states: A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person, who acts directly or by an agent, as to a cause of action in law or equity arising from the person’s (a) c. 223A § 3in this Commonwealth, (b)...