Douglas provides guidance to clients regarding debt collections, debt defense, commercial litigation, creditor's/consumer rights, contract disputes, alternative dispute resolutions, default judgments, and judgment collections. He provides (or has provided) legal representation to banks, finance companies, universities, waste management companies, equipment leasing companies, advertising companies, utility corporations, and various other types of service/good providers (e.g., food suppliers, pharmaceutical suppliers and doctors).

Douglas concentrates his commercial litigation practice in matters involving business disputes. In this regard, he is experienced in litigating breach of contract matters, commercial collection matters, and equipment damage matters in court. He also has extensive experience in handling mediations, arbitrations, and post judgment executions, including initiating garnishments and overcoming exemptions.

Throughout his career, Douglas has conducted numerous mediations and arbitrations that resulted in favorable outcomes for clients. He has also conducted non-jury trials on behalf of clients in which favorable decisions were obtained therefor. Additionally, he has recovered money through post judgment execution efforts such as garnishments and supplemental proceedings, overcoming the numerous statutory exemptions in the state of Florida.

Before Dion & Forsyth

Douglas began his legal career as an associate in the "Collections and Asset Recovery Department" of a prominent law firm, Yoss LLP (previously, Adorno & Yoss, LLP). While at this firm, he handled matters in the areas of creditor's rights, consumer collections, and corporate collections. In this regard, he personally handled large volume portfolios of commercial and consumer claims for several large institutional clients. He successfully created numerous work-outs and/or litigated collection matters, as well as equipment damage matters. He developed the garnishment and related post judgment execution procedures for the firm, which resulted in an improved liquidation rate of judgments obtained on behalf of clients.

Thereafter, Douglas served as the litigation managing Partner at Gill Dion & Forsyth, P.A. In this role, he managed large volume portfolios of commercial and consumer claims for several large institutional clients, as well as smaller portfolios for other institutional and non-institutional clients. Accordingly, he was heavily involved in all aspects of case treatment from pre-litigation call and collect strategies (involving collector management and file analysis) to controlling litigation case inventories. He also managed associate attorneys with their litigation case inventories. Additionally, he coordinated the litigation support staff for all offices of the firm. He trained associates, paralegals, collectors and other staff on litigation proceedings and state law compliance issues. He established a trained and efficient post judgment department, which increased the liquidation of judgments obtained on behalf of clients.

Community Involvement

Generally, Douglas welcomes speaking engagements. For example, Douglas recently taught a continuing legal education class which covered the following topics - prejudgment discovery, locating debtors, debtor asset discovery, pre-lawsuit strategies, procedural guidelines for filing lawsuits and obtaining judgments, collecting judgments, and creditors' rights when a debtor files for bankruptcy.

Additionally, Douglas attends and volunteers at events contributing to the welfare of the underprivileged families and/or children in South Florida. He also attends events to raise funds for heart disease and cancer research.

Additional information about Douglas Forsyth can be obtained from http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasforsyth.