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Orange County business attorney, Valerie Kramer, welcome’s legal questions^* – by phone for no charge. Whatever the business dilemma or business opportunity you are facing, Valerie has 30+ years’ experience working for 1,000’s of business owners. Moreover, Valerie’s business owners and corporate executives are local to Orange County, California. Because of her vast experience, you will receive expert, practical legal advice bolstered by 1,000’s of cases and clients. You will benefit greatly from the wisdom and past experiences a local Orange County business attorney can share with you. At your disposal is an Orange County business attorney whose past business circumstances are similar –OR– exactly like yours!

Call Valerie L. Kramer at (714) 395-5669. Ms. Kramer can share with you the challenges faced by past clients and outcomes of countless similar cases. This level of experience with similar cases is the value of working with an experienced Orange County business attorney.

Thirty+ Years’ of Business Law Experience

Decades of legal experience by being the legal representative for countless Orange County small business clients – is a huge advantage for you. Valerie can share years of similar cases, parallels, lessons-learned, and actual outcomes with you. Attorney Kramer can share how those lessons might dovetail into your unique circumstances for educated decision making. How did a backroom negotiation go? How did a court judge react to this or that defense or claim? Does serving a civil lawsuit really collect a big debt faster? Ms. Kramer, as an experience business lawyer, has endless stories from past cases she can call upon.

Free Initial Phone Consultation – Get Your Question Answered!

Free Phone Consultation with Orange County attorney Valerie Kramer. – If time allows, Valerie will make every effort to take your call immediately. She can share her legal advice, what kind of case you might have, or strength of case an opponent might have against you. She can discuss your legal rights in a money matter, your rights and remedies in a purchase agreement or commercial lease, or any other issue on your mind. If Valerie happens to be with a client or in court, the staffer who takes your call is tasked to schedule a quick return call from Valerie to you. That return call will usually take place in mere minutes: just enough time for you to sit down in a comfortable chair or close the door for privacy. In most cases, never more than an hour before the return call. Ms. Kramer, as her clients will attest, makes every attempt to be accessible and is here to help…

When you need legal advice; to brainstorm your legal issue – you can benefit by reaching out to an experienced Orange County small business attorney. Valerie Kramer has been helping Orange County professionals and business people find the solutions, answers and legal representation they need when they need it.

If, on the other hand, it is time to sue someone – or some business, Valerie can give you expert counsel! Valerie can advise you if suing someone is necessary or just your immediate gut reaction. Valerie might suggest a tactic less expensive than a lawsuit to obtain the outcome you are seeking. MORE ABOUT Business LitigationFiling a Lawsuit Can Get Someone’s Attention! – If you’ve been harmed, taken advantage of, or you are being flagrantly ignored as a impotent nuisance you can turn the tables! If you are in “the right,” filing a lawsuit and serving a summons can be very effective.

A lawsuit is sometimes BOTH a business and legal strategy – to get someone’s immediate and focused attention. Serving a lawsuit is taking the necessary legal steps to protect your interests and focuses your opponent’s attention. Filing suit may be the legal hammer that will result in you getting the fast and satisfactory solution that you seek. Lawsuits as a business “strategy” demonstrates your commitment to see a dispute through. Filing suit will often result in a satisfactory settlement without need to ever step foot in a courtroom. On the other hand, courtroom litigation is sometimes necessary to protect and enforce your rights in business matters.

If a demand letter from Debt Collection attorney Valerie Kramer – does not get your debtor’s attention, she will immediately follow up by filing a lawsuit. Filing a civil lawsuit results in a process server handing your debtor the lawsuit summons. That one embarrassing life-lesson often gets you paid!

You’d be surprised how many formerly unresponsive people suddenly become attentive to you! Your civil lawsuit is powerful when compared to the others your debtor owes! While the ineffective “others” email and call, your civil lawsuit WINS the argument for their immediate attention: hands down!

A Civil lawsuit drafted by Orange County debt collection attorney, Valerie Kramer, will start a countdown clock. Your debtor has only 30-days to file an answer to the court or lose the debt collection case by default. That means that your debtor must allocate MORE money and time to search for their own lawyer! The day the lawsuit is personally served to the person who owes you money, Valerie will often get a call! That will be your debtor pleading with Valerie to make full payment or work out a repayment plan.

This is our actual experience over years of debt collection. We can almost predict it to the day. Once served the lawsuit, your debtor will offer to drive over to Valerie’s office to pay or make payment arrangements. If the payment is not the entire amount, Valerie will consider a repayment plan (that is approved by you). If the re-payment plan meets Valerie’s minimum set of requirements to protect you, she will stop the civil lawsuit. Doing that will save both you and your debtor money, and you will not lose your position of power by stopping the lawsuit either.

Minimum Collection Case of $25,000

MINIMUM COLLECTION CASES OF $25,000 – We are very sorry if your debt is less than $25,000 – we’d love to help you, but we cannot. As it turns out, any debts less than about $25,000 are just not good candidates to hire an attorney to collect for you.

If you are owed $25,000 or more – an Orange County debt collection lawyer is so MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE than a “collection agency.” When collection agencies’ ineffective calls and letters fail in collecting a debt, they then hire a lawyer, like me, to file a collection lawsuit. Cut out the middleman and go directly to a debt collection lawyer right away!

We can help businesses with multiple SLOW-PAY or NO-PAY – accounts receivable. We are certainly able to represent business owners who have multiple accounts receivables that, when added together, exceed $25,000, with affordable legal collection services on an on-going, as-needed basis. But, please consider the average sizes of the uncollected money owed to you. If you have 100 clients who owe you $299 each, this would NOT be a workable circumstance for an attorney. Better you assign an employee to use the Small Claims court system to work these cases.

MY PRO-ACTIVE APPROACH

FIRST – Orange County debt collection attorney, Valerie Kramer, sends a waw office ‘demand letter.’ Never procrastinate when owed money. As the months pass, the chances of collecting what is owed you drops dramatically. By calling Orange County debt collection attorney, Valerie Kramer, at (714) 395-5669 you can put decades of expert debt collection success to work for you. Often, all that is needed is an inexpensive and effective legal demand letter from your new debt collection lawyer.

SECOND – Valerie will File Lawsuit & Process Server Will Serve your Debtor. If your demand letter is ignored — with your direction and permission — Valerie will immediately file a lawsuit. Your debtor will be served the lawsuit summons by a process server. Once served with court documents, those who foolishly assumed that your lawyer’s demand letter was some sort of a bluff learn otherwise. You debtor is often quick to call to inquire about making immediate payment arrangements to avoid having to hire their own attorney. By calling to make payment arrangements, we can halt the lawsuit and the debtor need not hire an attorney to answer the summons. That saves your debtor serious money that is better used to pay you what he or she owes you!

THIRD – You are good steward of your business & finances. You are owed money! “Business 101” teaches professional business people that it is good business to attempt to collect what was earned! Filing the lawsuit, if demand letter ignored, is just good business. As a professional person or business owner, you need to get the FULL attention of your debtor. The lawsuit and process server handing the summons over, emphasizes that you are the squeaky wheel. In all things in life, the squeaky wheel is usually addressed before all others.

Hire Orange County Debt Collection Lawyer, Valerie Kramer, to Collect Your Money

MORE ABOUT: Commercial Debt Collection

ATTORNEY FEES ARE SOMETIMES COLLECTABLE: If your judgment is less than our $25K minimum, it MIGHT make sense to have debt collection attorney Valerie Kramer collect your debt. Why? Generally, attorney fees are not recoverable when enforcing a California money judgment. HOWEVER! Many court-awarded judgments INCLUDE attorney fees in the judgment award! When a plaintiff obtains a judgment on a contract or promissory note, the plaintiffs’ rights are merged into the judgment. That means that that attorney fees incurred in enforcing a judgment are included as a collectible cost. [CCP §685.040; CCP §1033.5(a)(10)(A)] If you’re confused if attorney fees are included in your judgment, give Valerie Kramer, a call. She can help you understand the terms of your judgment. She can advise you if collection of the costs of pursuing your debtor, in addition to the base judgment, is possible. That said, we can never promise a rosy outcome in any collection case. However, until we try, we never know if a particular judgment is truly collectible or not.

Post Judgment Collection Enforcement: If you are sitting on a court award or judgment and need help collecting your money, call Valerie at (714) 395-5669. Valerie offers a no-cost phone consultation to discuss your options and her ‘take’ on the potential success of collection.

Properly drafted business forms can protect your business. They can protect you from everyday situations that can bankrupt a business. Make a proactive choice to operate your day to day business operation using clear and concise business forms and contracts that are CAREFULLY WRITTEN. Custom-drafted core documents can protect you and your business and is a LEGAL advantage when compared to you or a like business using a default FreshBooks, QuickBooks, Office Depot, or Staples off-the-shelf standard form.

You and your business have unique vulnerabilities. The absolute best prevention to protect you legally from misunderstandings and costly litigation is to call me. Tell me what you do. We can do some FREE brainstorming on the phone. Then, if it makes sense to you, allow me to draft your new “fine print” that can be something as simple as some carefully-drafted paragraphs that you have your QuickBooks or FreshBooks software print on your sales contract, work order, employment agreement, or other common documents.

Every Business Will Be Sued

Remember! It is never IF – but WHEN a business lawsuit will come your way. Besides the regular “nutty client” all businesses run into, there are those who make a devious living by targeting innocent business owners with frivolous lawsuits. MORE ABOUT: Business Contracts and Agreements

Business Dissolution: Business dissolution, like business formation, needs to be handled carefully. Unfortunately, many people do not do all the required steps. The reason to properly dissolve your business is to avoid future liability including surprise tax bills years later that were totally unnecessary. Valerie L. Kramer treats business dissolutions with the same attention to detail as she does business formations.

Exit Strategies: It’s not enough to build a business that is making money; you must make sure you have an exit strategy which is a way to get the money back out because of the economy, illness, or plain old retirement. Exit strategies may include: (1) Let the business ‘peter out’ and sell off the assets, (2) Selling your shares or interest, (3) Liquidation, (4) Go public, (5) Merge, (6) Be acquired, or (7) Sell.