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COLUMBIA FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL, INC.

      Columbia Financial International, Inc. (CFI) publishers of The Columbia Law List (since 1905), provides a comprehensive membership base of creditors’ rights and business litigation attorneys.  CFI also provides online network directories that in addition list collection agencies, and collection industry vendors worldwide.  Legal forwarding departments and businesses can locate CFI law firm members when needing a contingency or hourly creditor’s rights or business litigation law firm.  Creditors’ locate collection agencies and collection industry vendors through various directories that CFI operates.

      The law firms that make up The Columbia Law List membership handle collection matters of all types (commercial & retail accounts). Columbia Law List members work on a contingency fee or hourly basis and its membership handles collections cases worldwide.

      CFI, The Columbia Law List provides personalized service to help legal forwarders select the most qualified attorneys to handle collection matters whether they are consumer, commercial, subrogation, transportation, bank card, child support or medical collections.  CFI also assists businesses to help select collection agencies and collection industry vendors to enhance its business services.

      Established in 1905, The Columbia Law List has positioned itself to be the premiere online marketing company for collection attorneys, and law firms that make up its highly respected and well known Global Collection Attorney Membership Directory. It has been our goal to introduce many of our collection attorney members to new and exciting marketing opportunities that we offer to attain even greater internet exposure and recognition for their law firms. Columbia Financial International, Inc. provides other products and services for law firms to become more effective while saving money.

      The following is a list of website companies owned and operated by Columbia Financial International.  CFI Internet traffic visitors and subscribers grow in numbers monthly due to its Search Engine popularity and banner listings.  CFI receives millions of Internet page views and distributes its networks by sending thousands of emails to subscribers and industry executives daily. 

      Collection agencies and collection industry vendors promote banners and maintain online directory listings in multiple web directories that CFI owns and operates.  CFI’s Collection Industry News daily Newsletter reaches out to collection industry professionals worldwide. 

THE COLUMBIA LAW LIST

www.ColumbiaList.com

800-648-1914, Ext. 201 

   The Columbia Law List published since 1905 is distributed to all sources of collection claim forwarders including law firms, collection agencies and legal forwarding departments. The Columbia Law List members are all covered under a one million dollar surety bond issued by the Great American Insurance Company. Most law firm members utilize the bonding to secure additional clients. The Columbia Law List is the most popular and most utilized collection attorney network in the world. The Columbia Law List network website receives over 80,000 page view hits monthly through top placement organically on all top search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN & AOL. Columbia Law List also maintains hundred of banners and thousands of Search Engine Optimized top web pages. The Columbia Law List is one of the website directories that CFI law firm members become listed.  In addition, many members receive other benefits and sources that help their law firm become more effective and save money in operating their legal business.

 The following is a Benefits List that Members receive when joining Columbia Financial International: 

Full Service Marketing 

• CFI personally contacts potential clients on your firm’s behalf. In effect, We act as your marketing account representative

• Submission to the Google Local Map listing. 

• Listing with the #1 ranked Collection Attorney Network on Google  ColumbiaList.com

• Listing with the #1 ranked Retail Collection Attorney Network on Google Attorneys-Network.com.

• Coverage under our One Million Dollar Bond.

• Listing with AgencyCollectors.com the top and most popular Collection Agency Online Directory under the Preferred Collection Attorney Section

• Complimentary firm exposure with CollectionIndustryNews.com, the #1 online News Service for the credit and collection industries.

• Inclusion in ClaimForwarders.com database of receivers plus complimentary Electronic Claim Forwarding software for law firms.

• Complimentary club membership to www.AttorneyProducts.com  for up to 65% off on office supplies. (Save Thousands Yearly).

• Complimentary full access to CFIDataSearch.com, a skip tracing and asset location portal. 

• Low cost verified bank account searches – No Hit No Fee

• Improved Search Engine Rankings, your company’s website search engine rankings will improve with the back links from our highly trafficked websites.

• FDCPA Litigant Alert – One month complimentary subscription to scrub your files against litigants.

• 20% off website design and search engine marketing services from www.Top-Ten-Marketing.com

• 20% off a Virtual Spokesperson production for your website or email presentations www.YourVirtualSpokesperson. com.

TOP-TEN-MARKETING

www.Top-Ten-Marketing.com

800-648-1914, Ext. 401

   Top Ten Marketing is a member benefit for The Commercial Law League of America in website design, search engine optimization and internet marketing services. All Commercial Law League of America members receive a 5% discount for web design and search engine optimization services by mentioning the code word "GYPSY".

   Top Ten Marketing is also the official website design and search engine optimization company for the Commercial Collection Agency Association of The Commercial Law League of America www.CCAACollect.com.

   Top-Ten-Marketing is the leader in search engine optimization and web design for the Collection Industry. Check out our credentials and testimonials on the company website. 

ATTORNEY PRODUCTS (AP)

www.AttorneyProducts.com

(800) 648-1914, Ext. 1001 

      AttorneyProducts.com is an exclusive, members-only, consortium buying service with a singular mission: To provide the best price, value and service to our member attorneys, law firms, and legal industry vendors when purchasing office supplies and products (up to 65% off).  

      AP is able to exceed member’s expectations by leveraging unique strategic partnerships with industry leaders including the largest North American wholesale distributor of office supplies with over 50,000 items and 31 award winning distribution centers; a premiere online legal services marketing company with over 105 years of expertise; and a state of the art e-commerce company, SmartXpress, whose principals have over 60 years of senior level service in the business product arena.  

      AttorneyProducts.com members benefit from these strategic partnerships with lowest price guarantee, free next day delivery, and the AP-SMART online procurement process designed to save time and effort. 

COLUMBIA ELECTRONIC CLAIM FORWARDERS

www.ClaimForwarders.com

800-648-1914, Ext. 201 

   Columbia Electronic Claim Forwarders is the only complimentary collection claim forwarders software in the world. Our web based password only secure software allows collection claim forwarders to select attorneys or collection agencies, forward claims, and manage files. All Columbia Law List and Columbia Financial International members receive listings within Columbia Electronic Claim forwarders software. Columbia Electronic Claim Forwarders also allows forwarders to enter in their own attorney choices or collection agencies to manage and send files to law firms anywhere in the world. The following are features of Columbia Electronic Claim Forwarders. Video training is available for forwarders and receivers. 

Features for Forwarders

1. All the data that is transferred is secured and protected using encryption and SSL certificates.

2. Add Claims Manually

3. Bulk upload claims in ASCII or CSV format. We also can customize to accept claims in your internal data format.

4. Send and receive backup documents on claims.

5. Cost ledger to track costs requests from attorneys.

6. Re-forward claims to different attorney if the forwarded attorney doesn’t perform well on the accounts.

7. Track status history on placements.

8. Request updates on claims.

9. Add reminders on claims.

10. Extensive reporting.

* Attorney performance report 
* Money report 
* Status Report 
* Claim Placed Report 
* Attachment Report 

      Columbia Electronic Claim Forwarders is a premier benefit for members of The Columbia Law List and Columbia Financial International. Our members also have the ability to give customers Columbia Electronic Claim Forwarders software to clients which gives them a way of only forwarding to their office electronically.

COLUMBIA ASSET LOCATORS (FBA)

www.FindBankAccounts.net

 800-648-1914, Ext. 301

      VERIFIED BANK ACCOUNT SEARCHES utilized by judgment holders in the United States

            Columbia Financial is committed to empowering debt buyers, collection attorneys, collection agencies and financial institutions with the ultimate creditors’ rights vehicle.

      (Bank Account Garnishment)

      No Hit / No Fee

* Bank Accounts matched to the Federal Reserve

        * Proprietary Methods & Techniques

* Highest Hit Rate in the Industry

* Highly effective Private Investigators

      Your World of Non-Performing Portfolios and Distressed Debt Just Got Simpler.

      Columbia Asset Locators provide special low pricing for The Columbia Law List clients. Some Columbia Law List attorney members save thousands of dollars yearly through Columbia Asset locators. 

CFI DATA SEARCH

www.CFIDataSearch.com

800-648-1914, Ext. 201

      CFI Data Search was designed exclusively for Credit & Collection Industry professionals by Columbia Financial International, Inc.

      This data search portal will help those in the Credit & Collection Industry who do a lot or a little skip tracing. It is a skip tracing portal giving you access to literally hundreds of useful websites and companies that can make skip tracing easy for the novice or the consummate professional.

      CFI Data Search also provides an Ala Carte Menu of search products in partnership with DataTrue. 

COLLECTION INDUSTRY NEWS (CIN)

www.CollectionIndustryNews.com

800-648-1914, Ext. 201

      The leading daily newsletter and website for the collection industry (Over 1 million articles and videos view monthly). CIN receives more monthly page views with the collection industry than any other newsletter or website. 

YOUR VIRTUAL SPOKESPERSON

www.YourVirtualSpokesperson. com - www.AttorneyWeb.tv

Virtual Spokespeople for Your Website

800-648-1914, Ext. 1001

      Thousands of attorneys and businesses from around the world are attempting to capture more web viewers with enhanced web design techniques, richer site content and flashier graphics utilizing more sophisticated software applications. 

Live Spokesperson Production for Websites & Presentations for Law Firms

      It's all well and good to spruce up your website but what if you could have a real person walking across your homepage offering your legal services to your website viewers? We are not referring to an animated character but a real person, a real virtual spokesperson!

RETAIL COLLECTION ATTORNEY NETWORK (RCAN)

www.attorney-network.com

800-648-1914, Ext. 201

      RCAN is an attorney network which advertize retail collection attorneys and collection vendors across the United States and around the world, powered by www.CollectionIndustryNews.com and Columbia Financial International.

AGENCY COLLECTORS

www.AgencyCollectors.com

800-648-1914, Ext. 701

      Agency collectors is the oldest and most popular collection agency web based directory.  Creditors and businesses locate top collection providers located throughout the United States.

COLLECTION BOULEVARD

www.CollectionBoulevard.com

800-648-1914, Ext. 201

      A pay per click and banner advertising search engine which is industry specific for creditors’ rights and the collection industry www.collectionboulevard.com.

ATTORNEYS ONLINE

www.AttorneysOnline.us

800-648-1914, Ext. 601

      Attorneys Online offers exposure to law firms within 79 areas of practice.  A very large audience visits Attorneys Online to find listed members.  There are many benefits offered to members of Attorneys Online owned by Columbia Financial International.

LEGAL LEADS BROKER

LegalLeadsBroker.com (LLB)

800-648-1914, Ext. 201

      Legal Leads Broker (LLB) offers attorneys lead generation websites for a specific area of law to provide incoming client inquiries.  Leads are guaranteed and received through a monthly subscription fee. The leads are generated from top positions on Google and Yahoo and other search engine directories.

DEBT SELLERS

www.DebtSeller.us

Best prices, Best Servicing

800-648-1914, Ext. 501

      Debt Sellers is a national debt seller providing debt buyers throughout the nation with receivable portfolios for purchase. Our goal is to provide all debt buyers with only premium debt for sale that comes directly from the creditors and banks of the United States.

FDCPA Litigation Newsletter

800-648-1914, Ext. 201

      Columbia Financial International, Inc. has partnered with WEBRECON to bring you the most important and powerful informational tool you will ever need to stay abreast of FDCPA & FCRA lawsuits. 

      Cut frivolous lawsuits by as much as a third, saving thousands of dollars for each suit prevented.

      The FDCPA Litigant Alert will help you to virtually eliminate the risk of getting sued by a habitual litigant ever again.

 PRIVATE EYE VERIFY

 WWW.PrivateEyeVerify.com

 (800) 648-1914, Ext. 101 

      Private Investigators that visit debtors throughout the United Stated to determine the collectability; verify legal actions or report business activities.  Private Eye Verify offers several private investigative services located on their website and operated by a nationally known private investigator.