What is the most common complaint against Federated Law Group?

The most common issue consumers report about Federated Law Group is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Debt is not mine". This is based on 27 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Federated Law Group increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Federated Law Group are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Federated Law Group's reputation grade?

Federated Law Group has a reputation grade of C (score: 60.0/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Federated Law Group respond to consumer complaints?

Federated Law Group has a 85% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 12% of cases.

In how many states does Federated Law Group operate?

Federated Law Group has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 4 states, with the most complaints from Florida (18 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Federated Law Group - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 4 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

5
Communication tactics

5
Taking/threatening an illegal action

5
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

4
Written notification about debt

2
Disclosure verification of debt

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record federated-law-group Federated Law Group

Grade C · 27 CFPB filings · 85% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #1620 · compose #2367

VOL 27
GRADE C
12MO 0
STATES 4
TIMELY 85%
DISPUTE 12%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #1,620
COMPOSE #2,367

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: AAA Auto Title Loans, LLC (27 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Federated Law Group's 27 CFPB complaints sit next to AAA Auto Title Loans, LLC on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

66.7% of Federated Law Group's CFPB filings land in Florida

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Federated Law Group is volume #1,620 but composite #2,367, while Florida dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Florida 66.7%; 18 of 27 filings · 4 states touched
Even monthly load: Peak under 8%; Highest month 2021-07 at 7.7% (2 filings)
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,620 volume; #2,367 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 747 places worse than volume

How does Federated Law Group compare to its peers?

How does Federated Law Group compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Federated Law Group National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

85%

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

12%

17%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2018-04 2026-01

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	5
Communication tactics	5
Taking/threatening an illegal action	5
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	4
Written notification about debt	2
Disclosure verification of debt	2
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	2
False statements or representation	1
Improper contact or sharing of info	1

Where do complaints against Federated Law Group come from?

Federated Law Group's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Florida

18
Georgia

7
Louisiana

1
New Jersey

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Federated Law Group: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 27.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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