A pair of New Jersey lawyers who specialize in debt collection work have been ordered by a federal judge to pay their own debt of more than $160,000 in attorney fees to the Philadelphia law firm that defended them in 30 lawsuits under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
In her seven-page opinion in Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin v. Boyajian, et al., U.S. District Judge Petrese B. Tucker rejected the argument that the two lawyers –– Jack Boyajian and Marvin Brandon –– had no duty to pay the bill because the law firm had failed to submit monthly invoices.
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