What is the most common complaint against Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law?

The most common issue consumers report about Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law is "Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not mine". This is based on 50 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law's reputation grade?

Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law has a reputation grade of F (score: 47.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law respond to consumer complaints?

Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law has a 58% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 12% of cases.

In how many states does Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law operate?

Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 4 states, with the most complaints from New York (44 complaints).

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

Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 4 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

12
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

10
Attempts to collect debt not owed

7
Communication tactics

6
Disclosure verification of debt

6
Written notification about debt

3

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record richard-sokoloff-attorney-at-law Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law

Grade F · 50 CFPB filings · 58% timely · lead issue: Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed · vol #1192 · compose #4384

VOL 50
GRADE F
12MO 0
STATES 4
TIMELY 58%
DISPUTE 12%
ISSUE Cont'd attempts collect de…
RANK #1,192
COMPOSE #4,384

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Budget Control Services, Inc. (50 complaints)

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

Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law's 50 CFPB complaints sit next to Budget Control Services, Inc. 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

88.0% of Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law's CFPB filings land in New York

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law is volume #1,192 but composite #4,384, while New York dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: New York 88.0%; 44 of 50 filings · 4 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2019-02 11.9%; 8–15% band · 5 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,192 volume; #4,384 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,192 places worse than volume

How does Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law compare to its peers?

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

Richard Sokoloff, Atto… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

58%

98%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

12%

18%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2017-07 2025-11

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	12
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	10
Attempts to collect debt not owed	7
Communication tactics	6
Disclosure verification of debt	6
Written notification about debt	3
Taking/threatening an illegal action	3
False statements or representation	1
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1
Improper contact or sharing of info	1

Where do complaints against Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law come from?

Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

New York

44
Texas

2
Florida

1
Tennessee

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law: 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: 50.

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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