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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Grand Rapids, MI (December 7, 2009) – The following statistics are provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.

Monthly recap: There were about 915 consumer rights lawsuits in the month of November, including 765 FDCPA and 85 FCRA suits filed against creditors and collection agencies.

There were about 480 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the second half of November. Here is an approximate breakdown:
 408 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
 39 Fair Credit Reporting Act
 1 Telephone Consumer Protection Act
 19 Truth In Lending Act
 2 Bankruptcy Related
 3 Equal Credit Opportunity Act
 2 Electronic Fund Transfers Act
 1 Fair Credit Billing Act
 2 Federal Trade Commission Act
 1 Graham-Leach-Bliley Act
 1 Higher Education Opportunity Act
 2 Homeowners Loan Act
 1 Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act
 1 Internal Revenue Code
 1 State of California Consumer Statutes
 1 District Of Columbia Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Michigan Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Missouri Consumer Statutes
 1 State of New York Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Ohio Consumer Statutes
 4 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
 1 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

Summary:
 Of those cases, there were about 501 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
 Of those plaintiffs, about 148 had sued under consumer statutes before.
 Combined, those 148 plaintiffs have filed about 1384 lawsuits since 2001
 Actions were filed in 106 different US District Court branches.
 About 315 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:
 44 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Western Division – Los Angeles
 24 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
 21 Lawsuits: New York Western District Court – Buffalo
 19 Lawsuits: Connecticut District Court – New Haven
 18 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court – DMN
 18 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
 16 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court – Atlanta
 13 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
 13 Lawsuits: Arizona District Court – Phoenix
 11 Lawsuits: California Northern District Court – San Francisco

The most active consumer attorneys were:
 Representing 22 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
 Representing 21 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
 Representing 18 Consumers: Matthew William Kiverts
 Representing 18 Consumers: George Thomas Martin, III
 Representing 18 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
 Representing 17 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
 Representing 16 Consumers: Adam Theodore Hill
 Representing 13 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
 Representing 12 Consumers: Donald A. Yarbrough
 Representing 11 Consumers: Peter Cozmyk

Statistics Year to Date:
9213 total lawsuits for 2009, including:
 7511 FDCPA
 1090 FCRA
 25 TCPA

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 8908 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:
 Representing 404 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
 Representing 304 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
 Representing 216 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
 Representing 203 Consumers: Kenneth R. Hiller
 Representing 201 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings

About WebRecon LLC: Creditors and collection firms use WebRecon’s services to easily segregate predictably litigious consumers from their databases. A significant percentage of consumer litigation is initiated by the same consumers over and over again, and screening them out of the general population can reduce lawsuits by as much as a third.

For more information, please contact:

Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327
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Program allows potential customers to test software, receive support and provide feedback on pre-release products

(Muncie, Indiana – December 8, 2009) – Ontario Systems, a leading provider of revenue cycle management and collection management solutions for the accounts receivables management and health care industries, announces the new Technology Adoption Program (TAP), a software development program designed to give select current and potential customers early access to new technology before product ship dates. More importantly, the TAP enables Ontario to validate assumptions, visions and feature design decisions, ultimately benefiting customers with current and future product versions.

Unlike software Beta programs that can be more broad and shallow with their focus, Ontario’s Technology Adoption Program seeks a deep client relationship in order to deliver the best products to market – based on what the market needs today and in the future – not what it once wanted when a product was envisioned. TAP clients are hand-selected by Ontario based on thought leadership and the ability to give rich feedback. The program enables companies to get involved at much earlier stages, working directly with the people designing and building the product, to see individual features as they are developed and tested. Feedback is shared with the entire Ontario team throughout the program as it serves as an important driver of product requirements.

“Our TAP attracts thought leaders from companies of all sizes and from many different market segments to ensure that the solution will serve our entire industry,” said Michael Zammuto, Chief Operating Officer, Ontario Systems. “With our highly dynamic markets and customers, we want to make certain that we are bringing the best possible product with features needed today and in the future when it begins shipping to customers. It is a great commitment for our TAP clients, but ultimately serves as an investment in their own business leadership.”

“We were extremely pleased to be selected for the Ontario’s TAP and have seen tremendous benefits in the few months we have been working with Ontario’s upcoming Collect Savvy product, “said Nate Olson, Vice President of Operations, Illinois Collection Service.“It not only gives us hands-on experience with the product before it hits the market, but it opens up the communication channels to actually give input on issues we have or see in the market, resulting in a better product for us in the end.”

Availability
The Technology Adoption Program (TAP) is currently available to select clients based on thought leadership and the ability to give rich feedback. TAP is currently for Collect Savvy, but will be rolled out to all future major software projects. For more information on Ontario System’s Technology Adoption Program, please visit www.ontariosystems.com.

About Ontario Systems
Founded in 1980, Ontario Systems, LLC, is a leading provider of revenue cycle management and collection management solutions for the health care and debt management industries. The company’s customers are among the nation’s top 100 hospitals and health centers. More than 55,000 representatives in more than 500 locations – including nine of the top 10 U.S. collections firms – use Ontario Systems software and services. More information, call 800-283-3227 or visit www.ontariosystems.com.

Grand Rapids, MI (December 3, 2009) – WebRecon LLC is excited to announce the launch of “The Litigant Exchange” – a first-of-it’s-kind state and local lawsuit database driven by client participation.

So… why is this so important?

While WebRecon leads the market in consumer litigant data, to date there has been no reliable way to include state and local court litigants in any reliable fashion. The overwhelming majority of data has been of federal lawsuits from the US District Court system. The Litigant Exchange creates a process that opens up large amounts of state and local data to companies who need it, in a much more efficient manner than could ever be achieved working alone.

Here’s how it works:

Every client now has the opportunity to contribute all of their state and local lawsuits to the WebRecon litigant database – already the industry’s most comprehensive collection of consumer lawsuit data. By doing that, they will then gain batch access to all of the lawsuit data contributed by other clients.

It is a self-perpetuating cycle that will add immense value for every client.

“This is a very exciting day for me personally,” says WebRecon CEO Jack Gordon. “I have been working toward this moment for months. So many of our clients have expressed a high level of enthusiasm for this idea. We are really breaking new ground here.”

The Litigant Exchange is launching with state and local lawsuit data against many of the largest collection agencies, including NCO Financial Systems/Transworld Systems, Asset Acceptance, Allied Interstate, Arrow Financial Services, West Asset Management, AFNI, Academy Collection Service, Collectcorp, Cavalry Portfolio Services, OSI Collection Services and Credigy.

About WebRecon LLC: Creditors and collection firms use WebRecon’s services to easily segregate predictably litigious consumers from their databases. A significant percentage of consumer litigation is initiated by the same consumers over and over again, and screening them out of the general population can reduce lawsuits by as much as a third.

For more information or interview requests, please contact:

Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327

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Grand Rapids, MI (November 20, 2009) – The following statistics are provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.

According to CEO Jack Gordon, we officially surpassed the 2008 level of 6638 FDCPA lawsuits on about Nov 1, 2009 – with a full two months left to set a new record. If current trends hold, we can expect to easily exceed 8000 FDCPA lawsuits by years end.

FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, November 1-15, 2009

There were about 467 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the first half of November. Here is an approximate breakdown:

 376 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
 51 Fair Credit Reporting Act
 19 Truth In Lending Act
 1 Bankruptcy Related
 4 Credit Repair Organizations Act
 1 Driver’s Privacy Protection Act
 1 Equal Credit Opportunity Act
 1 Electronic Fund Transfers Act
 1 Fair Credit Billing Act
 1 Federal Trade Commission Act
 1 Graham-Leach-Bliley Act
 6 Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act
 1 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
 1 State of Alabama Consumer Statutes
 3 State of California Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Florida Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Illinois Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Nevada Consumer Statutes
 1 State of New York Consumer Statutes
 3 State of Pennsylvania Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Texas Consumer Statutes
 15 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
 1 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

Summary:

 Of those cases, there were about 478 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
 Of those plaintiffs, about 137 had sued under consumer statutes before.
 Combined, those plaintiffs have filed about 911 lawsuits since 2001
 Actions were filed in 105 different US District Court branches.
 About 451 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:

 31 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
 22 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
 18 Lawsuits: California Southern District Court – San Diego
 17 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Brooklyn
 17 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Los Angeles
 15 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
 15 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court – DMN
 15 Lawsuits: Arizona District Court – Phoenix
 13 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Middle District Court – Scranton
 12 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Central Islip

The most active consumer attorneys were:

 Representing 19 Consumers: Adam Jon Fishbein
 Representing 18 Consumers: George Thomas Martin, III
 Representing 15 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
 Representing 15 Consumers: David J. Philipps
 Representing 14 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
 Representing 13 Consumers: David M. Marco
 Representing 13 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
 Representing 13 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
 Representing 13 Consumers: Kenneth W. Pennington
 Representing 12 Consumers: Donald A. Yarbrough

Statistics Year to Date:

8416 total lawsuits for 2009, including:
 7010 FDCPA
 1044 FCRA
 23 TCPA

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 8174 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:
 Representing 386 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
 Representing 283 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
 Representing 199 Consumers: Kenneth R. Hiller
 Representing 194 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
 Representing 188 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings

About WebRecon LLC: Creditors and collection firms use WebRecon’s services to easily segregate predictably litigious consumers from their databases. A significant percentage of consumer litigation is initiated by the same consumers over and over again, and screening them out of the general population can reduce lawsuits by as much as a third.

For more information, please contact:
Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327

Gibbsboro, NJ, 11/19/09 – Jaws Youth Fund (JYF) is pleased to announce that it is teaming-up with LEIB Solutions for a holiday Toy Drive. LEIB Solutions will collect items for the toy drive through employees, clients and business partners,. It will run from Thanksgiving to December 19, 2009

LEIB is collecting new, unwrapped toys or books which the Jaws Youth Fund will distribute to several Camden-area programs including: Center for Family Services, MLK Child Development Center, El Centro Child Care Center and Mi Casita Child Care.

“Everyone at the LEIB is excited about giving back to the community. This is a special time of the year, and we’re happy that we can help make a difference,” said Bryan E. Leib, Vice President of Operations, LEIB Solutions. “We are especially appreciative of Jaws Youth Fund and United Way of Camden County for their assistance in ensuring that the toys get to deserving families.”

“We are honored to partner with LEIB to help us extend our outreach, and to make a difference in the lives of deserving families during the holiday season,” said Ron Jaworski, Founder Jaws Youth Fund and ESPN Analyst.

About LEIB Solutions
LEIB Solutions, www.leibsolutions.com, is a full service Accounts Receivable Management company, handling Domestic and International accounts receivables for small, mid-size and large companies. Founded in 1986, LEIB and it’s management team have been the recipients of many awards and certifications over the last 23 years. Respect. Tenacity. Results.

About Jaws Youth Fund
The United Way of Camden County Jaws Youth Fund, www.RonJaworski.com, is a partnership by United Way of Camden County and the family of Ron Jaworski, ESPN’s Monday Night Football Analyst and former NFL Eagles Great. The JAWS Youth Fund is an initiative serving at-risk youth throughout Camden County and the Delaware Valley region.

United Way and the Jaworski Family are committed to giving children a better life by creating opportunities for them to be successful. Through special events fundraising, the United Way JAWS Youth Fund has delivered over $2.5 million to over 70 non-profit organizations providing services to children ages 7-18. These programs must provide clear goals and demonstrated outcomes

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LEIB Solutions

20 East Clementon Road, Suite 100 South

Gibbsboro, New Jersey USA 08026

www.leibsolutions.com

Glen Carbon, IL, Oct 7, 2009—Comtech Systems, Inc. and Service Exchange Network, LLC announced today a strategic partnership to connect users of Comtech’s Collect! ARM solution with Service Exchange Network’s Serve-X . The alliance will give users of Collect! the ability to streamline the operational efforts to serve documents due for process and actively monitor their status.

Both companies are market leaders in their respective areas.

Comtech Systems Inc. recognizes the necessity to enhance the operational efficiencies when accounts are moved to a state of process serving. Comtech has an understanding of both the labor and administrative efforts required to execute and monitor process serving mechanisms during the litigation procedure. H. Neal Cropper, CEO states “We are excited about the opportunity to harness the powers of the Serve-X technology to reduce overall costs and efforts required of our clients to execute process serving. Serve-X offers a platform that not only reduces levels of effort but enhances the tracking capabilities during this procedure. We look forward to the future with Serve-X as a best of breed strategic partner to provide yet another aspect to Comtech’s growth as a full ARM solution provider.”

Service Exchange Network, LLC realizes the essentialness of assisting Law Firms and Process Serving companies to produce more with fewer resources. The affiliation with Comtech Systems, Inc establishes Server-X as a world-wide provider of data and document exchange. “We are enthusiastic about the relationship that has been built with Comtech Systems, Inc. as this will promote Serve-X to a vast amount of clients in the collection industry. We believe that Comtech is a progressive company and together with Service Exchange Network can revolutionize how the collection industry communicates to companies that offer process service”, said Greg Kellerman, President of Service Exchange Network, LLC.

About Comtech Systems, Inc:
Comtech was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Victoria, BC, Canada with an additional office in Brisbane, Australia. Comtech’s flagship product, Collect!, is widely recognized as the leading business management software solution for the world’s receivables management industries.

Comtech’s software is installed in 38 countries by over 1,200 companies including collection agencies, debt buyers, credit grantors, medical and dental billing offices, legal offices, municipal fine collection offices, car dealerships, rental application verification offices, credit grantors and a host of finance, credit and billing organizations.
For more information please contact: Robert Rutherford, VP at 800-661-6722, sales@collect.org or visit our website at www.collect.org

About Service Exchange Network, LLC
Service Exchange Network, LLC, (Serve-XTM), is an Illinois-based company founded in 2008. Serve-XTM was created to establish a cooperative bi-directional data transfer solution which is available to any independent Process Server or Attorney firm desiring to significantly mitigate costs and enhance their technology. Serve-X provides the technology that enables multiple attorneys to communicate with multiple process servers through interface integrations with software vendors.

Serve-XTM was launched nationally at the 2009 NARCA convention held in Boston, Massachusetts. It was an immediate success amongst Attorneys and Process Servers in attendance for its ease of use and uncomplicated design. Service Exchange Network, LLC members are supporters of NAPPS, CALSPRO, WAD, WADI, ACA, NARCA and CLLA.
For more information please contact: Kimberly Brown, Customer Support Specialist at 888-573-7839 ext 11, kimb@servex.biz or visit our website at www.servex.biz

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

WebRecon LLC Adds About a Dozen New Consumer Statutes to its Watchlist

Grand Rapids, MI (Sept 7, 2009) – In response to popular demand from the ARM industry, WebRecon LLC has begun tracking many more consumer statutes than before. In addition to FDCPA, FCRA and TCPA, clients can now expect to see lawsuits classified under Truth in Lending, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act and many more in the WebRecon database. However, FDCPA and FCRA remain by far the most active consumer protection statutes in use today.

Collection agencies and original creditors alike will benefit from the greatly expanded scope of consumer rights lawsuits and the litigious consumers who file them.

Additionally, WebRecon LLC is happy to announce a new category of membership – for only $19/month, members will receive a hotlist of all new repeat litigants twice monthly, as well as the ability to query the database for individual litigant names. This category of membership does not include batching capability.

The following statistics are provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.

FDCPA and Other Consumer Rights Lawsuit Statistics, August 16-31, 2009

There were about 475 lawsuits filed under tracked consumer statutes in the second of August. Here is an approximate breakdown:

• 367 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• 75 Fair Credit Reporting Act
• 1 Telephone Consumer Protection Act
• 24 Truth In Lending Act
• 1 Driver’s Privacy Protection Act
• 2 California Unfair Competition Law
• 1 Consumer Legal Remedies Act
• 1 Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act
• 2 Unjust Enrichment
• 5 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
• 1 Personal Injury
• 1 Unfair Business Practices
• 1 Credit Repair Organizations Act
• 1 Equal Credit Opportunity Act

• Of those cases, there were about 506 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
• Of those plaintiffs, about 104 had sued under consumer statutes before.
• Combined, those 104 plaintiffs have filed about 706 lawsuits since 2001
• Actions were filed in 120 different US District Court branches.
• About 513 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:

39 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
33 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Western Division – Los Angeles
20 Lawsuits: Minnesota District Court – DMN
17 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
15 Lawsuits: Texas Southern District Court – Houston
12 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
12 Lawsuits: Florida Middle District Court – Tampa
12 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court – Atlanta
12 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Middle District Court – Scranton
11 Lawsuits: Arizona District Court – Phoenix

The most active consumer attorneys were:

Representing 26 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
Representing 12 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
Representing 11 Consumers: David J. Philipps
Representing 11 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
Representing 10 Consumers: Alan C. Lee
Representing 10 Consumers: Diana P. Larson
Representing 10 Consumers: Kenneth W. Pennington
Representing 9 Consumers: E David Hoskins
Representing 9 Consumers: Matthew William Kiverts
Representing 9 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman

Statistics Year to Date:

6160 total lawsuits for 2009:

5111 FDCPA
853 FCRA
9 TCPA

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 6126 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:

Representing 335 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
Representing 214 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
Representing 171 Consumers: Kenneth R. Hiller
Representing 156 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
Representing 137 Consumers: Amanda R. Jordan

About WebRecon LLC: Creditors and collection firms use WebRecon’s services to easily segregate predictably litigious consumers from their databases. A significant percentage of consumer litigation is initiated by the same consumers over and over again, and screening them out of the general population can reduce lawsuits by as much as a third.

For more information, please contact:

Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Grand Rapids, MI (August 20, 2009) – FDCPA Lawsuit Statistics, August 1-15, 2009. This service is provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.

There were about 354 FDCPA cases and 49 FCRA lawsuits in the first half of August.
• Of those cases, there were about 403 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
• Of those plaintiffs, about 81 had sued under FDCPA, FCRA or TCPA before.
• Combined, those 81 plaintiffs have filed about 198 lawsuits since 2001
• Actions were filed in 93 different US District Court branches.
• About 278 different collection firms were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:
• 27 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
• 18 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
• 15 Lawsuits: California Southern District Court – San Diego
• 15 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Western District Court – Pittsburgh
• 14 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Los Angeles
• 13 Lawsuits: Arizona District Court – Phoenix
• 13 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
• 12 Lawsuits: California Northern District Court – San Francisco
• 12 Lawsuits: Florida Southern District Court – Fort Lauderdale
• 12 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Brooklyn

The most active consumer attorneys were:
• Representing 30 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
• Representing 21 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
• Representing 15 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
• Representing 14 Consumers: David Michael Larson
• Representing 13 Consumers: Donald A. Yarbrough
• Representing 13 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
• Representing 12 Consumers: Garrett I. Elias
• Representing 11 Consumers: Adam Jon Fishbein
• Representing 11 Consumers: David J. Philipps
• Representing 9 Consumers: Daniel A. Edelman

Statistics Year to Date: 5652 total lawsuits for 2009:
• 4755 FDCPA
• 796 FCRA
• 5 TCPA

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 5650 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:
• Representing 307 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
• Representing 205 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
• Representing 168 Consumers: Kenneth R. Hiller
• Representing 157 Consumers: Daniel A. Edelman
• Representing 154 Consumers: Adam Theodore Hill

For more information, please contact:

Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

5000 Lawsuits: A Disturbing New Milestone…
FDCPA Lawsuit Statistics Released, July 16-31, 2009

Grand Rapids, MI (August 10, 2009) – Instead of being an early Halloween fright, the milestone of 5000 FDCPA/FCRA lawsuits has become a post-Independence Day explosion on the collection and creditor firms already struggling to keep up in a troubled economy.

According to WebRecon CEO Jack Gordon, the second half of July saw us crack 5000 FDCPA/FCRA lawsuits for the year. This is nearly three months ahead of last year – in 2008, we didn’t reach 5000 lawsuits until the 2nd week of October. In 2007, 5000 wasn’t reached until the first week of December.

“This shows that the pace of new FDCPA/FCRA litigation is only accelerating,” said Gordon. “Look for this milestone to hit next year before Memorial Day.”

FDCPA Lawsuit Statistics, July 16-31, 2009

There were about 423 FDCPA cases and 79 FCRA lawsuits in the second half of July.

• Of those cases, there were about 528 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
• Of those plaintiffs, about 117 had sued under FDCPA, FCRA or TCPA before.
• Combined, those 117 plaintiffs have filed about 639 lawsuits since 2001
• Actions were filed in 107 different US District Court branches.
• About 345 different collection firms were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:

• 34 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Western Division – Los Angeles
• 30 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
• 23 Lawsuits: Florida Southern District Court – Fort Lauderdale
• 21 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
• 20 Lawsuits: Georgia Northern District Court – Atlanta
• 18 Lawsuits: California Southern District Court – San Diego
• 13 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Brooklyn
• 13 Lawsuits: New York Western District Court – Buffalo
• 12 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
• 11 Lawsuits: California Eastern District Court – Sacramento
• 11 Lawsuits: New York Southern District Court – Foley Square
• 10 Lawsuits: Arizona District Court – Phoenix
• 10 Lawsuits: Florida Middle District Court – Tampa
• 10 Lawsuits: Florida Southern District Court – Miami
• 10 Lawsuits: New York Eastern District Court – Central Islip
• 10 Lawsuits: New York Southern District Court – White Plains

The most active consumer attorneys were:

• Representing 29 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
• Representing 18 Consumers: Donald A. Yarbrough
• Representing 17 Consumers: Nicholas J. Bontrager
• Representing 16 Consumers: Todd M Friedman
• Representing 14 Consumers: George Thomas Martin, Iii
• Representing 13 Consumers: Adam Theodore Hill
• Representing 10 Consumers: Daniel A. Edelman
• Representing 9 Consumers: Adam Jon Fishbein
• Representing 9 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
• Representing 9 Consumers: David Michael Larson
• Representing 9 Consumers: Jody B. Burton
• Representing 9 Consumers: Susan A Landgraf

Statistics Year to Date:
5039 total lawsuits for 2009:
• 4320 FDCPA
• 714 FCRA
• 5 TCPA

Numbers of unique Plaintiffs: 5203 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:

• Representing 280 Consumers: Ryan Lee
• Representing 182 Consumers: Nicholas J Bontrager
• Representing 167 Consumers: Adam Theodore Hill
• Representing 165 Consumers: Kenneth R. Hiller
• Representing 159 Consumers: Daniel A. Edelman
• Representing 134 Consumers: Adam Jacob Krohn
• Representing 133 Consumers: Amanda R. Jordan
• Representing 129 Consumers: Todd M Friedman
• Representing 127 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
• Representing 113 Consumers: George Thomas Martin, Iii
• Representing 107 Consumers: David M Marco
• Representing 104 Consumers: David Michael Larson

Contact:
Jack Gordon, CEO
WebRecon LLC, The FDCPA Litigant Alert
Web: www.WebRecon.com
Email: admin@webrecon.net
Phone: (616) 682-5327