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Litigation We aze an active litigation firm. We take the initiative to identify candidates for lawsuit, obtain the client's approval, file the suits, and pwsue the suits to payment or judgment. We do not propose to wait for the tax collector to have to tell us which accounts to pursue. The following description of our litigation process is our normal approach. We will alter our procedures to suit your needs and policies. For example, some of our clients want additional notification steps taken prior to filing suit. Others limit us to filing on accounts that have been delinquent for more than one year. We will incorporate any changes that the District would like to see made. Using specially designed computer programs, our attomeys sort your tax roll by chazacteristics such as size of accourn, property type (real or personal), and status of address and title research efforts. At this stage we will incorporate any special instructions from the client regarding its litigation policies. IDEIIIIFIGII(MI OF ACCOUNfS FOA Most of ow clients prefer that their taac collectar review the accounts on suir which the law firm proposes to file suit. Others wish us to submit our suit filing list to the governing body for approval. After we have initially identified the candidates for suit, we submit the lists of such accounts to your taac collector for approval. Prior to suit we attempt to obtain the phone number of the individual or wBNlulOx lo iHE CuENT FoA company being sued and place it in our computer records. This A"ROYu information appeazs in our citation and often assists the sheriff or constable in obtaining service of the lawsuit on the defendant. It also serves as an additional opportunity to confirm that the defendant may be found and served. At this point we add to the records all additional parties identified by ow title or business research (the Secretary of State's corporate records and the County Clerk's assumed name records ~~~UTE ADDRESS µp TnU We make every effort to include all delinquent taaces owed by a taxpayer AESEAA(H into one lawsuit. This is accomplished through a computerized program to combine multiple accounts as received from a tax roll and a manual check of the delinquent accounts on the firm's computer system for name variation. When a property owner has delinquent properties with different lienholders, however, we usually do not combine them into the same lawsuit. We believe combining accounts reduces the amount of court costs and makes it easier for the property owner to pay our client's taxes instead of excessive court costs. Our computer system combines your tax roll informarion about the CONMDAh AMOOM MA amount due and the property taxed and our research information about the COMMON OMEMNIP location of owners and lienholders into the documents necessary to initiate the lawsuit: the Original Petition and Citation. Computer generated sectaa n- scope ot sericn - ra;e 7