Judgment recovery training and courses
When I search the web, I often read how easy it is to make a lot of money and get rich, without working too hard, in the exciting career of enforcing sentences.
Lawsuit enforcers have similar success rates to musicians. In both fields, many people dabble. Relatively few study, work hard enough, long enough to earn good money.
The execution of sentences requires a lot of study and that leads people to seek training courses. This is my experience, observations and opinions on the different judgment training courses that I know of or that I have consulted on the web.
Most training courses have two parts. The first part is the starter package: a book, a PDF, a training event, a tape, etc. The next part is perhaps more important: it’s the follow-up after the first part. Many of the best courses include access to an email list or a web-based BBS (Bulletin Board System) forum.
First, the courses I have purchased, read, and have extensive experience with:
JudgmentRecoveryCourse.com – One-time fee of $249. ($50 discount if you show that you have purchased another course). The very good course by Dr. Peter Gilboy comes as a short course in a binder. Pedro does not waste words. His writing style is perfect, friendly, concise, well edited and informative.
Included with Peter Gilboy’s course is lifetime membership to his Yahoo email list group. Your email support list is priceless. There are very smart and mostly helpful people on this list. Peter is smart, quick to respond, and very helpful.
NationalJudgment.net (NJN): $149 one-time fee. Claude Dickerson’s masterpiece of a support website for executors across the country. They have a fantastic discussion forum (but too moderate). The NJN site also has many benefits such as a trial course in PDF format, letter forms that can be tailored to your specific needs, payment calculators and a wide range of tools, links, a database case management program data etc NJN helps both novices and experienced sentence enforcers. No matter what state you are in, you will find the NJN valuable.
CAJP.org – $255 per year (prices tend to go up each year). The California Association for Trial Professionals is worth your time, especially if you are in California. This is a group you must qualify for. You must have already executed a statement.
You must also show proof of having a business/DBA/Corp, to show that you are a company. Since many sentence enforcers work alone under their own name, this seems a bit silly.
The CAJP does not include a manual, but its website has many years of publications and forums to read. The CAJP has many training courses in California. Those courses are reasonably priced and include manuals. In short, the CAJP has very smart people, great seminars and webinars, a great email list, and a forum. However, you have to pay every year, you are CA focused, and you have a lot of wordy email posts.
JudgmentRecoveryBook.com – $149. You get Barry Goldman’s great book “The REAL WORLD Judgment Recovery Guidebook” and a semi-active support email list. Barry is a world class Trial Executor and Process Server.
The following are the courses that I have not taken, but I have heard that they are real and very good:
RecoveryCourse.com – $175. Christina Smiley’s course, I’ve heard good things all the time, has a good support list, with additional support for newbies. A very popular course and active support email list.
JudgmentManagementSystem.info – $100. Windows Database for Judgment Enforcers. I hear good things about this.
I’m sorry that time limits prevented me from purchasing and reviewing all available courses. The ones mentioned here are the best.
Most people in California would do well to take Peter Gilboy’s course and then join the CAJP. If you are in another state, join the National Judgment Network and then purchase the course from Christina Smiley, Barry Goldman, or Peter Gilboy.
It is best to check http://www.RipOffReport.com before applying for any training course.