While the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act provides for attorney fees if a debt collector violates the law, those fees can’t be paid to a non-admitted attorney who, while claiming to have acted in only a consulting capacity, did more than local counsel, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied fees under the act to a plaintiffs attorney who was not admitted to practice in the district and had never sought pro hac vice admission in the case, Gsell v. Rubin and Yates.
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