Practice Areas Overview

Debt Collection

C. Edwin Walker & Associates provides effective and professional legal representation to businesses and individuals across the U.S. who are seeking to recover bad debt from businesses or individuals in Central Illinois.

Commercial Debt Collections

Our commercial debt collection lawyers represent creditors’ rights in bankruptcy proceedings and handle all aspects of creditor collections on behalf of local and national companies. Our Peoria, Illinois commercial debt collection attorneys are retained by small and medium-sized businesses of all kinds, including banks, wholesalers, distributors, equipment manufacturers, and shipping companies.

We collect overdue accounts receivable and reclaim merchandise on behalf of businesses in Illinois and throughout the United States and Canada from commercial businesses located in Central Illinois. Our firm provides a full range of commercial collection services, including:

• Debt negotiation and litigation, bringing legal action to collect delinquent debts, bad debts, and overdue accounts receivables in the Central District of Illinois Bankruptcy Court or in the Circuit Court in the county in which you have a claim. (In Illinois the creditor’s attorney must file the case in county court where the debtor does business. Our attorneys “ride” the same court circuit that President Abraham Lincoln covered on horseback).
  
  
• Post-judgment collections after a judgment has been obtained, including replevin to recover merchandise from buyers who have unpaid debt
  
  
• Registration and domestication of foreign judgments if needed to complete the recovery of debt for which you have received a judgment in another state
  
  
• Defense of preferences in bankruptcy proceedings

Contact the commercial debt collection lawyers at the law office of C. Edwin Walker & Associates to discuss your debt collection business needs.

Retail Debt Collections
The retail debt collection attorneys at C. Edwin Walker & Associates will work with national collection agencies seeking a local attorney to provide retail collections services in Central Illinois for credit card debt recovery. We work with banks in foreclosure proceedings and represent landlords in eviction proceedings. We are a tech-savvy firm, using up-to-date technology to track debtors. Contact our retail debt collection lawyers to get your debt collection case heading to court.

C. Edwin Walker & Associates
411 Hamilton, Suite 1710
Peoria, IL  61602
Phone: 309-674-3740 | Fax: 309-674-3743