For Business Owners

We get you paid on invoices your customers have stopped paying.

Staffing · Distribution · Manufacturing · Logistics · Wholesale

Unpaid business-to-business invoices between $25,000 and $250,000, recovered under your own attorney. Most of what we earn depends on collecting, and the money never passes through our hands.

Call Neil J. Murphy directly: 201-500-8479

How we get you paid

They took the load. They kept the invoice. You delivered the goods or the labor, somebody signed for it, and ninety days later the balance is still open and your contact has stopped returning calls.

By that point the reminders have run out. A collection agency sends a letter on its own letterhead, and your customer's controller files it away, because there is no case behind it and no date by which anything has to happen. A litigator quotes you a retainer in the five figures to begin a suit that may take a year, on money you needed last quarter.

There is a point between those two that almost nobody uses. Your attorney files the claim, obtains a docket number, and holds service. A case that has been filed but not yet served is real, and your customer knows it. That is leverage an agency letter never has, and it arrives before you have paid for a single deposition.

We work inside that window. Your attorney authorizes a settlement figure in writing and stays in charge of the case. We take the settlement conversation off your desk and present only what your attorney has approved. If your customer wires the money, it goes to your attorney's trust account and you have your cash in weeks rather than years. If they do not, your attorney serves and proceeds, and you have given up nothing.

We say all of that openly because it is the reason to call us. What we do not publish is how the underwriting screen works, how an offer is structured and timed, or the language that goes out, because that is the part that took years to build and the part that keeps everyone inside the rules.

NJM is an administrative consultant, not a law firm. We work under your own attorney, who remains counsel of record and holds the file, and we give no legal advice to you or to your customer.

Neil J. Murphy
Founder, NJM Recovery & Consulting Services LLC

Representative Files

The kind of invoice we work

Commercial invoices only. Goods or labor already delivered, paperwork in the file, and a customer that is still operating.

Staffing
$48,000

Six weeks of crew in the client's warehouse. Timesheets signed and approved. Payment stopped without explanation.

Building Supply
$60,000

Material delivered to the job site against a signed ticket. The general contractor is waiting on the owner.

Manufacturing
$92,000

Parts shipped on open account. The buyer is still running the plant and the invoice is still outstanding.

Freight
$37,000

Loads delivered with bills of lading on file. The broker has stopped responding entirely.

Wholesale
$29,000

Goods already on the retailer's shelves. A slow-paying account that became a non-paying account.

The Engagement

Four stages, and your attorney runs the case

STAGE ONE
Underwriting
Send one invoice with the purchase order, the delivery record, and the aging. We review it and decline files that will not hold up, which protects you as much as us.
STAGE TWO
Authorization
Your attorney files, remains counsel of record, and authorizes the settlement figure in writing. We are not attorneys and never act as yours.
STAGE THREE
Administration
Service is held while we carry the settlement conversation inside a defined window, presenting only the figure your attorney approved.
STAGE FOUR
Resolution
Funds clear into your attorney's trust account, or your attorney serves and proceeds. Either way you learn where you stand in weeks, not a year.
Suitability

What we can and cannot accept

We Can Work With This

  • One business owed by another business
  • An invoice between $25,000 and $250,000
  • Goods or labor already delivered
  • A customer that is still operating
  • You have counsel, or will retain counsel
  • You are prepared to let counsel proceed if payment does not come

We Cannot

  • Consumer or personal debts
  • Medical bills, credit cards, or fines
  • Accounts where you still need that customer's business
  • Matters already filed and in discovery
  • Arrangements with no supporting paperwork
  • Anything requiring us to act as your attorney
Fees

What an engagement costs

Underwriting an invoice takes real work before anything is collected, so the review fee is charged up front. The larger part of what we earn still depends entirely on getting you paid.

File Review Fee
$1,000 per file

Due when we accept an invoice. It covers the underwriting and administration time we commit, and it is earned whether or not the account settles.

Or By Negotiation
One-time fee

If you are placing several invoices or an aged ledger, we will agree a single negotiated fee in place of per-file pricing.

Success Fee
About a third

Roughly a third of what actually clears your attorney's trust account. Nothing is charged on money that never arrives.

Who Pays Us
Your attorney

Your customer wires your attorney, who clears the funds and pays our fee from the proceeds. Your money never runs through us.

Notice of Proprietary Intellectual Property & Trade Secrets

The Murphy Method™ and The Pocket Docket Protocol™, including all associated written intake algorithms, notice templates, settlement escalation schedules, and negotiation workflows, are proprietary service marks and protected intellectual property of NJM Recovery & Consulting Services LLC. Specific operational mechanics, documentation matrices, and portfolio auditing models are disclosed strictly under executed Mutual Non-Disclosure and Non-Circumvention (NDNC) Agreements. Unauthorized replication, adaptation, or circumvention by third-party entities is strictly prohibited under applicable state and federal intellectual property law.

Confidential Intake

Request an invoice review

One unpaid invoice and your attorney's name is enough to begin. If you do not have counsel, tell us and we will point you to a firm. We work under a firm; we do not become one.

Or call 201-500-8479.

Commercial business-to-business invoices only. We do not work consumer debt, and nothing on this page is legal advice or an offer to practice law.