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Serving Federal Employees & Contractors Throughout DC, Maryland & Virginia. Free Consultations Available Evenings & Weekends. Your Federal Job Was Supposed to Be the Safe Bet For most of your career, it was. Steady income, good benefits, a pension, and the kind of job security the private sector rarely offers. That assumption is gone. Tens…

You’ve Been Sued Over a Debt. Now What? Being served with a lawsuit over an unpaid debt is alarming, but it does not mean the situation is hopeless. Whether the suit was filed by an original creditor, a debt collection agency, or a debt buyer, you have legal rights and more options than you might…

Titan Asset Purchasing purchases defaulted loans from QuarterSpot, Inc., whose loan agreements contain “choice of venue” clauses providing for litigation in Virginia. QuarterSpot loans also require small business owners to personally guarantee their loans. So when Titan Asset Purchasing sues a business, it also sues the business owner, personally. Choice of venue: Arlington Circuit Court Both…

You have enough to worry about. We will take your debt collection calls for you. Some debt collectors are pretty good at their jobs. The more adept debt collection companies will try to force you into making bad decisions. But you don’t have to let that happen. You have to take control of the situation.…

Last week in Arlington General District Court, business lender QuarterSpot Inc. obtained 19 judgments totaling $1,358,560. QuarterSpot was able to obtain most (if not all) of these judgments because the defendant never entered an appearance. Lee Legal will defend your QuarterSpot lawsuit in Arlington General District Court or Alexandria General District Court. QuarterSpot small business…

Consider hiring a lawyer for debt defense if you are being pursued by a debt collector. Lee Legal serves the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia, and the D.C. suburbs of Maryland. To understand how the debt collection industry works, read the November 2019 State of Collections report from TransUnion. We did, and there are a…

Whataboutism is an attempt to distract from an opponent’s attack by charging them with hypocrisy. Whataboutists try to deflect an adversary’s charge without actually disproving it. Whataboutism (and its counterpart bothsidesism) is much in the news lately in the context of our partisan national politics. But the strategy is older than logic itself. The Latin…

Having to appear in court can be intimidating and may frazzle your nerves. You want to be prepared and have an even and balanced disposition. Here are some helpful tips on how to behave in court. The court room is the location for justice to be carried out with the judge representing the law. The…

Debt collector phone calls and collection letters in the mail are never welcome yet must be dealt with all the same. For some, ignoring their debt is a direct result of not having the money to pay the debt. But know this: ignoring debt collectors will never remedy the situation. In fact, it could make it…

The term moral disengagement encompasses the cognitive maneuvers we undertake to justify any self-interested choices that don’t align with what we want others to think we believe about ourselves. Moral disengagement in litigation runs the gamut from the misleading to the unethical. A series of experiments by Professors Sean Martin and Jim Detert shows the…