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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Grand Rapids, MI (January 21, 2010) – The following statistics are provided to the ARM industry courtesy of WebRecon LLC.

There were about 396 lawsuits filed under consumer statutes in the first half of January. Here is an
approximate breakdown:

 319 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
 36 Fair Credit Reporting Act
 4 Telephone Consumer Protection Act
 24 Truth In Lending Act
 1 Bankruptcy Related
 5 Equal Credit Opportunity Act
 2 Electronic Fund Transfers Act
 1 Higher Education Opportunity Act
 2 Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act
 6 State of California Consumer Statutes
 2 State of Florida Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Georgia Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Illinois Consumer Statutes
 1 State of Maryland Consumer Statutes
 1 State of New Jersey Consumer Statutes
 7 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
 3 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

Summary:
 Of those cases, there were about 418 unique plaintiffs (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit).
 Of those plaintiffs, about 114 had sued under consumer statutes before.
 Combined, those 114 plaintiffs have filed about 702 lawsuits since 2001
 Actions were filed in 96 different US District Court branches.
 About 260 different collection firms and creditors were sued.

The top courts where lawsuits were filed:
 23 Lawsuits: Illinois Northern District Court – Chicago
 22 Lawsuits: California Central District Court – Los Angeles
 20 Lawsuits: Colorado District Court – Denver
 16 Lawsuits: California Northern District Court – San Francisco
 14 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court – Philadelphia
 10 Lawsuits: Alabama Northern District Court – Western
 10 Lawsuits: Arizona District Court – Phoenix
 10 Lawsuits: Pennsylvania Middle District Court – Scranton
 10 Lawsuits: California Southern District Court – San Diego
 9 Lawsuits: Indiana Southern District Court – Indianapolis

The most active consumer attorneys were:
 Representing 26 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
 Representing 15 Consumers: Adam Theodore Hill
 Representing 15 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
 Representing 13 Consumers: David Michael Larson
 Representing 13 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg
 Representing 13 Consumers: Todd Michael Friedman
 Representing 12 Consumers: Matthew William Kiverts
 Representing 9 Consumers: Brandon Lee Blankenship
 Representing 8 Consumers: John Cole Gayle, Jr.
 Representing 8 Consumers: Joseph A Mullaney III

Statistics Year to Date:

396 total lawsuits for 2010, including:
 319 FDCPA
 36 FCRA
 4 TCPA

Number of unique Plaintiffs: 418 (including multiple plaintiffs in one suit)

The most active consumer attorneys of the year:
 Representing 26 Consumers: Ryan Scott Lee
 Representing 15 Consumers: Adam Theodore Hill
 Representing 15 Consumers: Brent F. Vullings
 Representing 13 Consumers: David Michael Larson
 Representing 13 Consumers: Sergei Lemberg

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.

The FDCPA Litigant Alert Batch up to one million accounts per hour through our massive litigant database

The ‘Litigant Exchange’ Provide your state & local lawsuit data in exchange for access to others’ lawsuit data

The ‘Reputation Tracker’ The industry’s only Consumer Web Site search engine

The ‘Litigant Hotsheet’ A quick snapshot of the most active litigious consumers sent twice monthly

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:

Grand Rapids, MI (December 11, 2009) – WebRecon LLC is excited to announce the launch of “The Reputation Tracker” – a one-of-a-kind search engine focused solely on “consumer rights” themed websites. All existing batch clients have access to this new service.

According to WebRecon CEO Jack Gordon, “Collection agencies and creditors are uniquely targeted by hostile consumers for negative and defamatory comments. This tool will help our clients stay on top of what is being said about them, and give them the ability to react if deemed necessary.”

“Over 100 of the most dangerous web sites are indexed using Google technology, and any query will bring instant results sure to be an eye-opener for just about any collection agency out there,” says Gordon.

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

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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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

Grand Rapids, MI (October 23, 2009) – They’re giving it all away, for free.

In an effort to combat the exploding number of FDCPA lawsuits plaguing American collection agencies, law firms and debt buyers, WebRecon LLC has announced an offer to scrub every collection firm’s consumer database, free of charge and with no further commitment or obligation. The offer covers each firm’s entire database, or up to 5 million consumers per company.

“Nearly 1000 new litigants are emerging every month, and 2009 is on track for a 40% spike in the number of FDCPA/FCRA lawsuits over 2008,” says company CEO Jack Gordon, who is a former collection agency owner himself.

He adds, “Debt collectors are under attack seemingly from every corner – radicalized debtors, consumer attorneys, federal agencies, Congress, state legislators, state attorney generals and the media. I am looking to give those who are the most besieged something of extraordinary value.”

Every lawsuit prevented can save many thousands of dollars. According to Gordon, a typical agency can identify dozens or even hundreds of prior litigants and head off any potential impending action from them.

The service, which is priced lower than the cost of defending or settling a single typical lawsuit per year, includes four components to help agencies identify prior litigants:

A searchable database of consumer lawsuits to find individual litigants, defendants or attorneys.
A batch process that can segregate prior litigants at the rate of one million accounts per hour.
A semi-monthly spreadsheet of all new litigation.
The semi-monthly ‘Litigant Hotsheet’ which quickly identifies the most active consumer litigants.

The companies that take advantage of this offer will have the option, at the end of the free scrub, to continue with the month-to-month service.

“Of course, I hope many of them will choose to stay on,” said Gordon, “but even if they just try it out and find some value from their initial scrubs, I will be happy to see them benefit from denying the professional litigants out there additional opportunities to extort money from our industry.”

Any collection firms who wish to learn more can visit www.webrecon.com/free

This offer expires on December 31, 2009, and slots are expected to fill up quickly.

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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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