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Judgement Records Search Education and Training

Use easily accessible online sources for training employees to search for judgements
By Michele Vrouvas

Judgement records search education and training can benefit many professional organizations. You may run a law office that researches adverse parties to a case, or you may operate an employment recruitment office that performs routine background checks on potential new hires. In both cases, your work depends upon determining an individual's credit history. Teaching your employees how to perform a search through judgment records will increase your office's productivity.
 

Start a training program dedicated to performing a free judgement search by explaining why the searches are important and what kinds of information they can provide. It's also useful for employees to know when it becomes necessary to pay for a more specialized report on public judgment records. As you plan your judgement records search education and training program, consider the following approach:

1. Have employees begin with background reading on searches for court judgement records.

2. Reimburse employees for any time they spend at seminars and training classes on public record judgements away from the office.

3. Direct your employees to sources that explain what kind of judgement searches the law allows.

Provide employees with online sources explaining basics on judgement records searches

Employees should understand what kind of information they should look for in these searches. They should also get training on how to read a lien and judgment records report.
Try: 

Info Cubic offers a sample lien and judgment records report. Government Public Records Database explains the Freedom of Information Act, the type of information judgment searches typically locate and how the Internet has made searching for judgment records much easier.

Encourage employees to attend seminars and training classes that address judgement searches

These classes not only offer hands-on training, but they also inform attendees of additional online sources for working with court judgement records that may be difficult to find with common search engines.
Try: 

Training-Classes.com keeps you posted about upcoming classes and seminars that relate to every area of collection work, including paid-for and free judgment searches. The National Business Institute offers classes in continuing legal education for professionals in every field. Learn how to research settlements and uncover hidden assets.  

Direct employees to understand the legal guidelines controlling judgement records searches

If they're going to perform judgment searches regularly, your employees will have to know what kind of debt the law allows them to search for and what kind of searches are considered "abusive" to debtors.
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Both the FDIC official papers and articles on the Expert Law website explain the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the legal restrictions on collection agencies and what happens if a debt collector oversteps the legal boundaries.

• Even if you are an attorney rightfully seeking to collect money that is owed, the law restricts the conduct of your employees in performing civil judgement records searches.