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David Peltan

Peltan Law, PLLC Established 2009

Education

University of Toledo
College of Law, Cum Laude

University of Florida
MBA, With Honors

Michigan State
University, BA

Memberships

Board of Directors for the New York State Collectors Association since 2016

ACA’s Member’s Attorney Program (2011-2016)

Niagara Frontier Corporate Counsel Association

Admitted to practice in the Federal District courts for the Western, Northern, Eastern, and Southern Districts of New York

Admitted to the state courts of:

New York, Florida and Georgia


Experience

  • Practicing law since 1993, with most of career in a corporate environment, including as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for large and small collection acgencies
  • Investigated and resolved literally hundreds and hundreds of complaints from Attorneys General, private lawyers, regulatory agencies, and consumers.
  • Litigated and managed defense of hundreds of lawsuits and claims alleging debt collection abuse, including class actions.

Collections

  • Developed compliance program considered among industry’s best by top-shelf creditors
  • First-hand experience on the collection floor
  • Created and presented advanced collector training classes
  • Testified as an industry representative at the New York City Department
    of Consumer Affairs public hearing on collection practices (2006)
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Recent News

28
2018 June

New York Catches Up to Some of Phantom Debt Vigilante's Targets

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued debt broker Hylan Asset Management LLC and collection agency Worldwide Processing Group LLC, alleging they were involved in a phantom debt scheme...

27
2018 June

Collecting on fake debt results in lawsuit against two WNY companies

A new federal lawsuit accuses two local companies, one in Amherst, the other in Hamburg, of distributing and collecting on "phantom debts" that consumers do not owe....

2
2015 August

Courts Find No Violation in Visibility of Account Digits

Two federal judges in New York have reached the same conclusion in unrelated cases that having consumers' account numbers visible on the outside of envelopes containing letters from debt collection agencies does not, by itself, violate the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act...