California Business & Collections Law Blog

We were recently retained by a client that places high-level tech workers. Our client was owed nearly $100,000 by one of its customers who had moved its operations overseas. We stepped in and using our 25+ years of commercial collections experience, helped the client...

On January 12, 2019, attorney Art Matthews presented a seminar on Judgment Collections Practice on behalf of the Orange County Bar Association. Mr. Matthews provided an overview of California’s Enforcement of Judgments law and discussed various collection techniques...

Our client was owed approximately $1.3 million by one of its customers who, before we were retained, had been making one excuse after another for non-payment. Once we became involved, our client’s customer almost immediately committed to a payment plan and paid the...

Working with his trial counsel and using several pre-judgment attachment enforcement methods, we recently assisted one of the founding shareholders of a successful private company attach over $1.3 million from his former company before trial. Our client shareholder...

Matthews Law Firm recently succeeded in satisfying a large judgment for one of its corporate clients. Specifically, we were able to obtain the identity of the Judgment Debtor’s largest customer and legally compelled the customer to pay overall accounts receivable owed...

In the simplest form, Asset Protection works by limiting or even removing access to the assets from the legal system, courts and potential creditors.  This can be done in two ways: The first is to keep the assets in the United States and attempt to limit access to...

Issues that we see frequently with business contracts: Main issue is when folks try to draft their own contracts: Example 1 – $120k promissory note – lender used a form note and borrower crossed off all of the important language (acceleration clause, attorney’s fees)....

The Matthews Law Firm recently prevailed at trial in a breach of contract/collection action involving one of our oldest and best clients. The defendant guarantor refused to acknowledge responsibility or make a settlement offer during approx. 2 years of litigation. He...

Matthews Law Firm resolved a hotly contested arbitration proceeding among business partners. Our client was the minority owner and we successfully negotiated a 7 figure settlement that resolved the arbitration claims and resulted in a buy-out of our client’s interest...

Matthews Law Firm filed a collection action against an out-of-state business that owed our client over $300,000. For reasons unknown, the debtor failed to respond and a default judgment was entered in our client’s favor. Using investigative tools at our disposal, we...