For attorneys, factors, CPAs, and credit managers
Commercial collections has always run on forwarding. If you hold a file that is real, provable, and not worth your time to chase, send it to us — we work it on contingency and report back to you.
Every professional who works with creditors eventually meets the same file: a legitimate B2B receivable, clean documentation, and an amount that doesn’t justify the hours it would take to pursue. Writing it off is the usual answer. It is rarely the right one.
A client walks in owed $40,000. It is a real debt with clean paperwork, and it is not worth billing hourly to chase. Declining it is bad for the relationship; taking it is bad economics.
Send it to us. We work it on contingency, and if it needs suit we refer it back through counsel rather than around them. You keep the client relationship and the litigation work; we do the pursuit that does not justify your rate.
Recourse factoring charges a bad invoice back to the carrier, who then owns a debt they have no ability to collect. Non-recourse coverage is narrower than most carriers assume — typically broker insolvency, not disputes or chronic slow-pay. Either structure leaves a residue you did not want and cannot work.
Trucking is our largest practice area. We know the broker bond, the successor-entity game, and the short federal window on freight charges. Refer the carrier, or place the charged-back paper directly.
You are the one who tells a client their receivable is uncollectable, and the one who writes it off at year end. Some of those are collectable — they were simply never pursued by anyone whose job it was.
Before it becomes a write-off, let us look at it. A free review costs your client nothing and occasionally turns a deduction into cash.
Your in-house team is good at current receivables and wrong-footed by the account that has genuinely stopped paying. Working it for another quarter costs salaried hours and loses leverage.
We take the file when your process has run out, and we report back so you are never guessing about the status of an account you placed.
You have a Texas debtor, no Texas presence, and a client expecting more than letters from another state.
We are in Dallas. Forwarding is standard practice in commercial collections, and a person who can physically work a Texas debtor's place of business is exactly what a distant agency cannot provide.
Four steps, no paperwork to start
The invoice or contract, the balance, and what you know about the debtor. No agreement to sign before we look at it, and no cost to ask.
If it is worth pursuing, we say how we would pursue it. If it is not — the debtor is gone, the deadline has run, there is nothing to collect from — we say that too, and you have your answer without spending anything.
No upfront cost to you or your client. Our fee comes only out of what we actually recover, and it is agreed before the account is placed.
Status on the accounts you send. The fastest way to lose a referral relationship is to take someone's client and go quiet, so we do not.
No money changes hands between us. We don’t pay referral fees and we don’t accept them. Texas Disciplinary Rule 7.03(b) bars a lawyer from giving anything of value to a non-lawyer for a referral, and an arrangement that is clean for attorneys is clean for everyone else too.
Have a file in front of you now? Send it over for a free review → or call (469) 531-0092.
FAQ
No, and we do not accept them. Texas Disciplinary Rule 7.03(b) prohibits a lawyer from giving anything of value to a non-lawyer for referring clients, and we would rather have a relationship that is uncomplicated for everyone. Referrals here run both directions on the merits, with no money moving either way.
No. You keep the client. We are engaged for the collection file, we report status back to you, and where a matter needs litigation we route it through counsel rather than around them.
Nothing upfront. We work commercial placements on contingency, so a fee is charged only against funds actually recovered, at a rate agreed before the account is placed. If we collect nothing, your client owes nothing.
Commercial, business-to-business debt only — unpaid invoices, breached contracts, defaulted notes, aged receivables, and judgments. We do not collect consumer or patient debt, which is what keeps this work outside the consumer FDCPA (15 U.S.C. § 1692a(5)).
No. Alexander, Strauss & Associates is a commercial collection agency. Where a file needs suit, a lien filing, or judgment enforcement, that work is performed by licensed collection attorneys in the debtor's jurisdiction. We never provide legal advice or engage in the unauthorized practice of law.
Yes. We are based in Dallas and Texas is where our in-person capability matters most, but we pursue commercial accounts nationwide through a network of licensed collection attorneys.
Tell us what you're owed and we'll tell you exactly how we'll get it back. The review is free, and you pay nothing unless we collect.
Free and confidential · No upfront cost · You pay only if we collect
