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Class Counsel Certifications

• Roquet v. Arthur Anderson LLP, 1:02-cv-2689 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Pleasant v. Risk Mgmt. Alternatives, Inc., 1:02-cv-6886 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Levin v. Kluever & Platt, LLC, 1:03-cv-2160 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Redd v. Arrow Fin. Servs., LLC, 1:03-cv-1341 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Davis v. Franks Gerkin McKenna, P.C., 3:03-cv-50286 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Murry v. Amer. Mortgage Banc, Inc., 1:03-cv-5811 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Omatto v. Arrow Fin. Servs., LLC, 1:04-cv-917 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Karwo v. CitiMortgage, Inc., 1:04-cv-1944 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Fisher v. Asset Acceptance, LLC, 1:04-cv-2585 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Browder v. Nat’l Fin. Systems, Inc., 1:05-cv-10464 (D. Mass.) 
• Hoyt v. Arrow Fin. Servs., LLC, 1:05-cv-10560 (D. Mass.) 
• Ruth v. Triumph Partnerships LLC, 3:06-cv-50042 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Simpson v. Arrow Fin. Servs., LLC, 1:06-cv-1946 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Martin v. LTD Fin. Servs., L.P., 1:06-cv-3300 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Wahl v. First Resolution Investment Corp., 1:06-cv-7047 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Foster v. Velocity Investments, LLC, 1:07-cv-824 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Wilhelm v. Allied Interstate, Inc., 1:07-cv-1497 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Anama v. AFNI, Inc., 1-07-cv-4251 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Martin v. Cavalry Portfolio Servs., LLC, 1:07-cv-4745 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Buford v. Palisades Collection, LLC, 1:07-cv-4974 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Bibb v. Friedman & Wexler, LLC, 2:07-cv-2173 (C.D. Ill.) 
• Trempe v. HBLC, Inc., 1:07-cv-5495 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Weinstein v. Asset Acceptance, LLC, 1:07-cv-5967 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Urbaniak v. Credigy Receivables, Inc., 1:07-cv-6326 (N.D. Ill.) 
• O’Rourke v. Palisades Acquisition XVI, LLC, 1:08-cv-0430 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Urbaniak v. Asset Acceptance, LLC, 1:08-cv-0551 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Marshall-Mosby-Blitt and Gaines, P.C., 1:08-cv-0758 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Duhadway v. Credigy Receivables, Inc., 1:08-cv-0852 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Hale v. AFNI, Inc., 1:08-cv-3918 (N.D. Ill.)
• Richard v. West Asset Mgmt., Inc., 1:09-cv-3864 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Young v. Unifund CCR Partners, 1:09-cv-4206 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Phillips v. Asset Acceptance, LLC, 1:09-cv-7993 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Wysocki v. City Nat. Bank et al., 1:10-cv-3850 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Cotton v. Nat’l Action Fin. Servs., Inc., 1:10-cv-4709 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Colello v. Franklin Collection Serv., Inc., 1:10-cv-6229 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Pawelczak v. Bureau of Collection Recovery, LLC, 1:11-cv-1415 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Pawelczak v. Fin. Recovery Servs., Inc., 1:11-cv-2214 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Moorehead v. Franklin Collection Serv., Inc., 1:11-cv-5936 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Janetos v. Fulton Friedman & Gullace, LLP, 1:12-cv-2128 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Wilfong v. Nat’l Capital Mgmt., LLC, 1:12-cv-2979 (N.D. Ill.) 
• In re: Enhanced Recovery Co., LLC, Telephone Consumer Protection Act Litigation, 6:13-md-2398-Orl-37GJK (M.D. Fla.) 
• Miller v. Nat’l Enterprise Systems, Inc., 1:13-cv-1720 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Jones v. Delta Management Assocs., Inc., 1:15-cv-00267-WCG (E.D. Wis.) 
• Hayes v. Convergent Healthcare Recoveries, Inc., 1:14-cv-1467 (C.D. Ill.) 
• McCarry v. Law Offices of Gabriel B. Antman, P.C., 1:15-cv-8275 (N.D. Ill.) 
• Wood v. Credit Control, LLC, 6:16-cv-1098 (D. Kan.) 
• Smith v. Simm Associates, Inc., 1:17-cv-00769-WCG (E.D. Wis.) 
• Steffek, et al. v. Client Services, Inc., 1:18-cv-00160-WCG (E.D. Wis.) 
• Volkman v. Enhanced Recovery Company LLC, 1:18-cv-00091-WCG (E.D. Wis.) 
• Sandri v. Asset Recovery Solutions LLC, Case No. 1:18-cv-01182-WCG (E.D. Wis.)
• Vandehey v. Client Services, Inc., E.D. Wis. Case No. 1:18-cv-01669-WCG (E.D. Wis.)  
• Nagan v. Optio Solutions LLC, E.D. Wis. Case No. 1:19-cv-00170-WCG (E.D. Wis.)
• Cole v. Menn Law Firm, Ltd., 1:19-cv-00527-WCG (E.D. Wis.)
• Heredia v. Capital Management Services, L.P., 1:17-cv-00248-WCG (E.D. Wis.)

Notable Decisions

• Steffek v. Client Servs., 948 F.3d 761 (7th Cir. 2020) Represented Appellants and a certified class of Wisconsin consumers in reversing district court’s grant of summary judgment.
• Heredia v. Capital Mgmt. Servs., L.P., 942 F.3d 811 (7th Cir. 2019) Represented plaintiff-appellant on dismissed FDCPA claim including oral argument. Court reversed finding collection letters falsely stated the possibility that the creditor “may” file an IRS Form 1099C if the consumer accepted a settlement because the creditor would never do so.
• Boucher v. Financial. Systems of Green Bay, Inc., 880 F.3d 362 (7th Cir. 2018) A debt collector’s use of the Seventh Circuit’s previously-approved safe harbor language in collection letters does not shield a collector from liability when it uses that language inaccurately with respect to the debt it is collecting.
• Janetos v. Fulton, Friedman & Gullace, LLP, 825 F.3d 317 (7th Cir. 2016)
• Janetos v. Fulton Friedman & Gullace, LLP, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 173718 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 15, 2016)
• Phillips v. Asset Acceptance, LLC, 736 F.3d 1076 (7th Cir. 2013)
• Soppet v. Enhanced Recovery Co., 679 F.3d 637 (7th Cir. 2012).
• O’Rourke v. Palisades Acquisition XVI, LLC, 635 F.3d 938 (7th Cir. 2011).
• Ruth v. Triumph Partnerships, 577 F.3d 790 (7th Cir. 2009).
• Handy v. Anchor Mortgage Corp., 464 F.3d 760 (7th Cir. 2006).
• Tri-G, Inc. v. Burke, Bosselman & Weaver, 856 N.E.2d 389 (IL 2006).

Community Involvement

• National Association of Consumer Advocates, Member
• Chicago Bar Association, Member