Attorneys, not a collection agency. Not a mill.
Hollis & Barrow is a commercial collection practice. We represent creditors — manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, lenders, subcontractors, and service businesses — who are owed more than $25,000 by another business that has stopped paying.
The distinction we care most about is between a law firm and an agency. A collection agency can call and write letters. That is the whole toolkit. By the time most claims reach us, that toolkit has already been exhausted and the debtor has priced in the fact that nothing further is going to happen. A lawsuit changes the arithmetic, and only a law firm can file one.
We are not a volume shop. High-volume collection practices are built to process thousands of small files with minimal attorney involvement, and they work fine for what they are. That is not this practice. Our files are larger, fewer, and each is reviewed by an attorney before it is accepted, because on a contingency arrangement we are risking our own fee on that judgment.
Fictional attorneys. The two biographies below are invented for this demonstration site. Any resemblance to real attorneys is unintentional.
Ellen Hollis has practiced creditors' rights law for over twenty-five years, with an emphasis on post-judgment enforcement against debtors who have taken active steps to become uncollectible. Much of that work involves fraudulent transfer claims, alter ego theories, and receivership applications where a debtor has moved assets into related entities.
Admitted in California, New York, and Nevada. Frequent speaker on judgment enforcement for state and county bar associations.
Raymond Barrow handles the firm's construction and supply-chain matters, including mechanics liens, stop payment notices, and payment bond claims, along with a substantial docket of commercial collection litigation. Prior to entering private practice, Barrow spent six years as in-house counsel to a regional building products distributor, which is where the interest in receivables originated.
Admitted in California and Arizona.
Every accepted matter is assigned to an attorney and to a legal assistant by name. The legal assistant is your day-to-day contact and can speak to status, tactics, prospects, and where any settlement discussion stands. You will not be routed into a general queue, and you will not have to explain your case again each time you call.