{"id":324,"date":"2013-10-11T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T09:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2022-12-08T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:14:47","slug":"automated-debt-collection-lawsuits-engulf-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/blog\/2013\/october\/automated-debt-collection-lawsuits-engulf-courts","title":{"rendered":"Automated Debt-Collection Lawsuits Engulf Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As millions of Americans have fallen behind on paying their bills, debt collection law firms have been clogging courtrooms with lawsuits seeking repayment.<\/p>\n<p>Few have been as prolific as Cohen &amp; Slamowitz, a Woodbury, N.Y., firm that has specialized in debt collection for nearly two decades. The firm has been filing roughly 80,000 lawsuits a year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&amp;client_id=lgcl&amp;redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F07%2F13%2Fbusiness%2F13collection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As millions of Americans have fallen behind on paying their bills, debt collection law firms have been clogging courtrooms with lawsuits seeking repayment. Few have been as prolific as Cohen &amp; Slamowitz, a Woodbury, N.Y., firm that has specialized in debt collection for nearly two decades. The firm has been filing roughly 80,000 lawsuits a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}