Attorney Coordinator (Legal Collections)

Credit Acceptance Corporation•Southfield, MI

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Attorney Coordinator position is responsible for ensuring that the Company initiates collection lawsuits in compliance with the law and Company policies and procedures. This role involves monitoring the performance of collection law firms, communicating regularly with them regarding their performance, and conducting audits. The position requires reviewing accounts for suit start eligibility, verifying affidavit information, and ensuring law firms represent Credit Acceptance professionally, compliantly, and cost-effectively. The role also includes managing a route of accounts with deficiency balances, conducting remote audits, answering customer calls, monitoring action plans, ensuring adherence to notification requirements, managing special projects, and auditing closed accounts. Additionally, the Attorney Coordinator will approve settlements and payment plans to maximize profitability and provide ongoing support to collection law firms. This position requires a High School Diploma or GED, proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, and 1 year of experience with leadership or coaching. Knowledge of legal collections processes and practices, company policies, and being a Notary Public are preferred. An Associate's or Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 1 year of legal collections experience are also preferred. The role operates on a Monday - Friday schedule from 8 am to 5 pm EST, with mandatory in-office attendance every other Wednesday. The targeted compensation is $22.50 - $26.00/hour, with uncapped monthly bonus potential based on individual performance. This is a hybrid role, requiring both remote and onsite work at an assigned Southfield, MI office.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED.
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel).
1 year experience with leadership or coaching.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of legal collections process and practices.
Knowledge of the Company’s policies and procedures relating to legal collections.
Certified as a Notary Public.
Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree.
Minimum of 1 year of legal collections experience.

Responsibilities

Take steps to ensure that the Company initiates collection lawsuits in compliance with the law and Company policies and procedures.
Monitor performance of collection law firms.
Regularly communicate with collection law firms regarding their performance, including compliance with their contract and applicable laws.
Perform audits of collection law firms.
Review accounts to determine if they meet suit start eligibility requirements as set forth in the Company’s policies and procedures.
Verify all of the information in an affidavit is true and accurate and, if and when it meets that standard, timely execute the affidavit in compliance with applicable laws and Company policies and procedures.
Monitor the Company’s relationship with collection law firms to ensure they are performing in accordance with contractual expectations and represent Credit Acceptance professionally, compliantly and cost-effectively.
Coaching, performance managing and auditing a defined group of collection law firms to ensure our accounts are being worked in compliance with our policies and procedures and the contract.
Evaluating data concerning collection law firm performance and documenting observations based on that data.
Presenting performance results to the collection law firms, including Action Plans developed through the relationship management process during quarterly relationship management calls.
Managing a route of accounts with deficiency balances placed with collection law firms, including overseeing and monitoring efficiency to optimize payments and minimize exceptions.
Conducting quarterly remote audits of collection law firms, evaluating a sampling of accounts to assess compliance with Company policies and procedures at the time accounts are assigned (e.g., validating proper scrubs of accounts performed, such as bankruptcy and SCRA; accuracy of pre-judgment interest calculations) and post-judgment (e.g., timeliness of garnishments).
Answering inbound calls from customers with any questions or concerns they may have regarding their contractual obligations.
Monitoring status and resolution of action plans resulting from ongoing due diligence of collection law firms (e.g., onsite and remote audits conducted by company auditors).
Confirm collection law firm adherence to Company notification requirements, including sending proper interface coding to communicate account statuses.
Manage special projects assigned to collection law firms, as needed.
Perform audits of accounts closed by collection law firms, including, but not limited to, reviewing and verifying account balances, balance adjustments, timely release of lien/title and/or contract in compliance with applicable law.
Maximize profitability to collect on deficient accounts through settlement and payment plan approvals.
Provide ongoing support to the Company’s collection law firms.
All other duties as assigned.
Attendance as outlined in the Operations Attendance Policy.