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Maplewood,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, August 21, 2015
Lee is not a brother. He is Sheldon's son. The other Pressler is Maurice H Pressler father of Sheldon Pressler who founded the firm in 1930. If Sheldon founded the firm in 1930 Sheldon would be over 100 years old. Sheldon is living so long because only the good die young.
Sheldon had a habit of walking around the office screaming at employees and using foul lanuage. He did not want to be an attorney but his father forced him and he had a miserable life. He would have rather be tinkering with gagets. He should have been a patent attorney.
I do not want to give too much information about myself but at one point in time the firm hired law school graduates and Ccollege graduates rather than "collectors" from other collection agencies or law firm because they wantd to hire people with no "bad habits" Those graduates wanted to have Pressler and Pressler on their resumes as their first employment prior to Maurice's passing because the volume of cases gave the new attorneys in one year, an experience they could not get in five years at a firm with less volume. The firm had real clients, some of the largest department stores and vehicle financing companies and even the State of New Jersey. They did a lot of Commercial Claims and was a member of the commercial law Leauge of Americs.
Preswsler was following the principals of the Fair Debt Reporting Act (hereafter refered to as "the act" years before the act applied to attorneys simply because it made common sense. Read the act and you will find you should not abuse alleged debtors. Common sense would dictate that if you yelled ans swore and did other acts which are now illegal to do the alleged debtor would refuse to co-operate with you. If you employed procedures that did not attack debtors they would be more likely to pay you.
Eric Sombers introduced the firm to the concept of buying accounts that were written off and resold for pennies on a dollar. I doubt any of the claims had the proper proof the court required to obtain judgment. If debtors were more intelligent they would answer the complaint and leave the creditor to their proofs.
Most of the judgments are "default judgments" as Pressler did not have current addresses or correct information and sent the summons to the wrong person who had a "like name". The person receiving the complaint was not the real debtor and thought they could ignore it. they should have responded that they have no knowledge of the debt, they never did business with the creditor, the coplaint is inaccurate and untrue and leve the creditor to their proofs and they request a court date. They should have done "discovery" but they would have needed an attorney and the cost of hiring an attorney was often more than the amount allegedly owed. It wouldhave been less expensive to pay the debt.
They could have sent a letter stating taht Pressler should cease and disist and If Presssler proceeded Pressler would have been violatind the act as the act did include law offices when the firm switched to buying debts taht were written off.
You should not use anythins in this letter without speaking to an attorney as it is not to be considered legaladvice.