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Once a year, attorneys in each state are invited to nominate their top colleagues, who they personally observed in action, to be recognized in Super Lawyers Magazine. Each candidate is then evaluated on twelve indicators of professional achievement. The Rising Star distinction is based on this peer review process and is awarded to only the top 2.5% of attorneys, who are either under the age of 40 or have been in practice for less than 10 years. ...

Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC would like to congratulate Taras Shelestyuk with his third straight knockout victory last night. The three-time Ukrainian national champion, who has an overall amateur record of 195-15, Shelestyuk is a 2012 Olympic bronze medal winner, a 2011 world amateur champion, and a 2010 bronze medalist in the European championships.

Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC wanted to congratulate its client, Dierry “Dougy Style” Jean, the NABF Light Welterweight Champion from Montreal, Canada, with his impressive debut in the United States – a fourth-round TKO over southpaw Cleotis “Mookie” Pendarvis – that was the main event on Showtime‘s ShoBox: The Next Generation. An orphaned Haitian immigrant, Jean now has an undefeated record of twenty-five wins (with seventeen knockouts) and is the No. 1 contender in ...

This week, Arkady “Eric” Rayz of Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC secured a six-figure recovery on behalf of a European commercial bank from two U.S.-based loan sureties. Earmarked to fund wholesale importation of consumer goods to the Russian Federation, the original loan was used – instead – to finance a lavish lifestyle of high-end automobiles, luxury vacations, and expensive jewelry. Beginning more than four years ago, the lawsuit brought by Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC involved proceedings ...

A recent decision issued by the Hon. Legrome D. Davis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in favor of a client of Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC and Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP was featured in Law360 – an online news publication that covers major litigation developments in the U.S. federal district courts. The article, entitled “BofA, Credit Bureau Can’t Duck Suit Over Mortgage Notices,” describes how Bank of ...

Earlier today, the Hon. Legrome D. Davis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that a client of Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC and Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP has stated viable claims that Bank of America, N.A. and Walled Lake Credit Bureau, LLC violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq., and the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, 73 Pa.C.S. § 201.1 et seq. ...

Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC has been retained to provide immigration services on behalf of Dierry “Dougy Style” Jean – the NABF Light Welterweight Champion from Montreal, Canada. An orphaned Haitian immigrant, Jean has an undefeated record of twenty-four wins (with sixteen knockouts). For his first bout in the United States, Jean is scheduled to fight Cleotis “Mookie” Pendarvis, who currently holds the USBA and USNBC light welterweight titles, as well as the WBF welterweight ...

This week, attorneys from Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC and Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national class action firm headquartered in New York, filed a class action against Asset Acceptance, LLC – a notorious debt collector – and their attorneys, Fulton Friedman & Gullace, LLP. As detailed in the complaint, Asset failed to disclose the fact that it was attempting to collect a disputed debt, while Fulton Friedman & Gullace, LLP sent out misleading correspondence regarding the ...

Last week, attorneys from Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC and Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national class action firm headquartered in New York, filed a class action against “Chickie’s and Pete’s” chain of restaurants for unlawfully skimming tips from their employees. As detailed in the complaint, the “Chickie’s and Pete’s” staff were required to make daily cash contributions from their gross sale charges to the owners – an unlawful practice that violates the Fair Labor Standards Act, ...

A class action lawsuit against Bank of America, N.A. that was recently filed by attorneys from Kalikhman & Rayz, LLC and Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national class action firm headquartered in New York, was featured by Law360 – an online news publication that covers major litigation developments in the U.S. federal district courts. According to the article and as detailed in the complaint, Bank of America and Walled Lake Credit Bureau – ...