11 January 2012
The Law Firm of Morrow and Artim, P.C. would like to announce that Attorney Matthew E. Becker has joined the firm as an Associate Attorney. Mr. Becker’s practice will focus on Criminal Defense, Consumer Protection, and Credit Card Defense. He believes that aggressive representation is the best way to defend his clients’ rights and money. [...]
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23 June 2011
The sheriff arrives at your door with papers, or, the mailman asks you to sign for a certified letter. Uh oh, you have just been served with a credit card lawsuit. What do you do now? Let’s start with what you should NOT do… with number one on the list being: ignore the lawsuit. You [...]
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16 June 2011
There has been a growing trend with the collection agencies towards filing their credit card lawsuits at the local magistrate or district justice. My belief is that this is a cost savings measure on their part. Statistics show that approximately 85% of the people who are sued by collection agencies on credit card debt do [...]
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02 June 2011
Morrow and Artim, P.C, is pleased to announce that founding partner, Gregory T. Artim, Esquire has been named to the Pennsylvania Rising Stars list as one of the top attorneys in Pennsylvania for 2011. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected to the list. Super Lawyers, a Thompson Reuters [...]
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11 April 2011
In previous posts, I have advised all of you to avoid Debt Settlement Companies like the plague. In my experience, I have found that they either are outright scams, or, they simply charge way to much for the service that they provide. Lately, we have found a new issue with a few of these companies [...]
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11 April 2011
Justice has finally been found for one Washington County, PA client of ours. LVNV sued our client, Mr. G, on an old WalMart account. LVNV was asking for approximately $4500 in damages in the lawsuit. At the arbitration hearing, LVNV presented approximately 1 years worth of old statements. They did not produce a signed agreement, or [...]
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25 January 2011
2010 was a prettygood inaugural year for Morrow & Artim. On the plus side, we won almost every single case that we handled. We helped consumers successfully defeat the claims of collection agencies to the tune of about 25-30 victories per month. We saved those consumers over $1,000,000 in allegedly defaulted credit card debt. On the [...]
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11 November 2010
We received some pretty fantastic news today. We are representing an individual in a collection agency case in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. This individual was sued by LVNV, which is one of the larger junk debt buyers that we deal with. The lawsuit was typical, typical in that it was severely lacking in information and details. [...]
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11 October 2010
Ms. W was sued by Atlantic Credit and Finance for approximately $9000.00 in Dauphin County. Ms. W hired our firm to defend and we noticed right away that the lawsuit was defective. With a defective lawsuit in Pennsylvania, the proper response is typically to file Preliminary Objections. We won the first round of arguments on [...]
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20 July 2010
We recently had the pleasure of representing Virginia H on an Allegheny County credit card lawsuit. Virginia was sued by Arrow Financial earlier this year. She failed to respond to the lawsuit in time, and a default judgment was entered against her. She called our office and after a quick review of the docket, we [...]
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