The managing attorney of the Collections Department is Mr. J. Paul Clinton. Mr. Clinton joined the Firm as an associate in November, 1992. He works very closely with the Operations Manager, Michael J. McDaniel, in monitoring the productivity and efficiency of the day-to-day activities of the department. He assumed the responsibility as managing attorney in April, 1996 and plays a very significant role in interlinking the Firm's Legal and Collection Departments.

Stokes & Clinton, P.C. houses a first rate collection staff of approximately thirty-two professional individuals who specialize in bad debt recovery. Our collection team is complemented by six skiptracers. This department's emphasis is to locate demographic information on debtors. The Firm also employs three full-time paralegals along with a support staff of twelve. The S&C workforce is managed by Mr. Michael J. McDaniel. Mr. McDaniel graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Mobile in 1987. He has fifteen years experience in collections and operations management. Mr. McDaniel challenges the collection and support staff with the specific goal of maximum recovery for the client in the shortest period of time.

S&C is equipped with state of the art equipment to aid us in serving the needs of our clients. Our computer software was custom-engineered, developed and copyrighted for the firm in 1984. Since its inception, this program has been installed in over three hundred firms across the country. Our predictive dialing system enables us to increase our number of debtor contacts while virtually eliminating the busy signals, disconnected phone numbers, no answers and wrong numbers. In addition, our skiptracing department is on line with national credit bureaus and a nationwide directory service which allows us to cross-reference debtors by name, address and phone number.

Information and account management systems allows our clients to place delinquent accounts via modem, diskette, e-mail or other means. These systems are used to provide clients with account status reports, monthly financial statements and demographic updates.

The Collection department handles all pre-suit collection accounts. Once collection efforts have been exhausted, a decision is made whether suit should be filed. Upon client approval, accounts that warrant suit for collections are immediately transferred to the Collection Litigation Department for handling and monitoring. Our ability to work a claim from pre-suit to judgment is most beneficial to our clients. S&C has essentially eliminated the middle man in the practice of collections.