Criminal Law

• Theft
• Identity Theft
  I then spent several days looking into why my elderly mother was receiving collection notice calls debt collectors. Another call from my mother about her now receiving court documents. I contacted the law offices of Greenberg & Greenberg and with their help, we figured out that my mother's identity had been stolen and someone had been using her name and id to rack up huge debts. During the months that it took to get everything cleared up, I moved to Washington DC, I met the man who would eventually become my husband, and I learned a great deal about identity theft and the Maine court systems.

Property Law

• Easement

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
• Wills
  Areas of practice: Consumer & Commercial Collections, Creditor's Rights, Bankruptcy, Contracts, Subrogation, Wills and Probate, and Civil Litigation.
• Power of Attorney
  The specialized in commercial and consumer debt collections throughout the State of Maine, handled estate probate matters, drafted legal documents, prepared Wills, Living Wills, Health Care Proxies, and Powers of Attorney.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Debt Collection
  An update: I was in the midst of choosing a moving company when I received a phone call from my mother who lives in Portland Maine. She was distressed about phones calls from what she thought were debt collectors who were pressuring her to make payments on debts she wasn't even aware of. I told her that debt collectors often say anything to try to get money out of you. Some might even break the law and lie to you about the debt collection process or worse, threaten you. She had no outstanding debt so why were they calling, sometimes several times a day. Under both federal and state law, debt collectors, also known as collection agencies, are not allowed to contact you about your debt once you have told them to stop. My good friend and former Queens Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Pred reinforced everything I said but also suggested she ask for a phone number so she could call back. Most scammers will never do this, though they might give you a bogus number. But doing that puts them on the defensive. I told my mother that the next time she received a phone call from a debt collector to tell them: “I exercise my rights under federal and Maine law and demand that you immediately stop contacting me.”