PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Michael B. Stein is a partner at the Charlotte office of Hutchens Law Firm focusing on creditors’ rights, litigation, and debt collection. His 20+ years' of legal experience had given him a nuanced approach that balances patience, diplomacy, and resolve. He assists clients in pursuing and collecting outstanding debt through means of structured payment agreements, pre-litigation negotiations, filing, and prosecution of lawsuits, defending against counterclaims, and assisting clients with post-judgment collections and remedies such as property repossession, foreclosure, and eviction. Michael also counsels clients on best practices in debt collection, including FDCPA compliance and other borrower protection acts.
EDUCATION:
Juris Doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law (1995)
Undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1992)
ADMISSIONS:
North Carolina State Bar (1995)
U.S. District Courts of North Carolina: Eastern District (2002) | Middle District (2002) | Western District (1995)
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS:
North Carolina State Bar (present)
North Carolina Bar Association (present)
North Carolina Creditors Bar Association (present)
National Creditors Bar Association (present)