Success Stories

Success Story #1: A customer owes big bucks, but when called for payment, he stalls, crawls or simply ignores the company. Classic signs of the dreaded disease of "deadbeatitis." When the customer finally meets with you, they claim they will pay you in full out of the proceeds of a sale. Don't wait, seize the moment!

Company X said "carpe diem"! When confronted with all the invoices, its customer admitted that it owed $106,000.00 and claimed that Company X would get paid out of a pending sale. Once burned by prior broken promises, Company X seized the moment and hired us. We immediately sued and obtained an ex parte bank attachment and an attachment of personal property (bulk attachment). We requested and obtained a form of attachment that allowed the sheriff to make multiple attachments of the defendant's bank account. The attachments caught over $68,000.00. Not surprisingly, the deadbeat agreed to settle the matter. Within nine weeks our client received $106,000.00.

Enforce Your Out of State Judgment

In order for another state's law to be enforceable in a commercial collection matter, the judgment must be domesticated in Massachusetts before creditors can take action.

We can assist in the domestication process that would allow you to pursue collection of your out-of-state judgment. We can then assist you with various collections options:

• Attachment of bank accounts, real estate and other assets
• Complaints on judgments
• Supplementary process
• Receivership

Mechanic's Liens

·       M.G.L.c. 254 establishes the procedure to create a mechanic's liens. This highly technical statute allows you to lien a person or entity's property where you have rendered certain services and/or provided materials, even if you never contracted with the owner. Because the wording of the lien documents and timing of filing is of critical importance, using an experienced attorney such as Attorney Cohen instead of relying on store bought or Internet forms may make the difference between successfully creating and perfecting a lien or having just another write-off. The Mechanic's lien statute involves a Notice of Contract, a Statement of Account, the timely filing of a Complaint to enforce the lien and finally the recording of an attested to copy of the complaint at the appropriate registry of deeds.

Who we are

Business Litigation , Commercial Litigation , Civil Litigation,  Commercial Collection Litigation,  Debt Collection, Mechanic’s Liens

The Law Offices of Alan M. Cohen, LLC,  with almost thirty years of experience, represents businesses throughout Massachusetts and the United States in commercial debt collection matters. The success of your business relies on many things, including the successful collection of debts. Our firm provides the aggressive advocacy you need in debt collection matters.

 Contact our Office by calling 508-620-6900.