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.
Complaints by issue type
What consumers report about Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law
- Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed
12 complaints
- Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
10 complaints
- Attempts to collect debt not owed
Attempts to collect debt not owed
7 complaints
- Communication tactics
Communication tactics
6 complaints
- Disclosure verification of debt
Disclosure verification of debt
6 complaints
- Written notification about debt 3
Written notification about debt
3 complaints
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 50
- GRADE F
- 12MO 0
- STATES 4
- TIMELY 58%
- DISPUTE 12%
- ISSUE Cont'd attempts collect de…
- RANK #1,192
- COMPOSE Not ranked
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Budget Control Services, Inc. (50 complaints)
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 →
How the 50 complaints break down
Every complaint issue type on record for Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law, not just the top ones shown above.
Reputation score breakdown
Blends complaint volume, timely-response rate, dispute rate, and recent trend from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database into one comparable 0-100 score. Not an official CFPB rating and not a finding of wrongdoing — see methodology for the exact formula.
State-heavy filing map
88.0% of Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law's CFPB filings land in New York
Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. 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
- Corpus ranks
- #1,192 volume
- Composite not ranked (fewer than 200 complaints)
- Volume rank among 5,420 collectors
How does Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law compare to its peers?
Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.
Response speed vs. dispute rate, among similar-volume collectors
Timely response and dispute rate track only weakly together nationally (r=0.22 among collectors with 5+ complaints): answering promptly does not reliably buy Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law a lower dispute rate.
Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law's complaint volume in context
Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law vs all collectors by complaint volume
Where this collector's total CFPB complaint count sits among every tracked debt collector (volume, not a quality ranking)
50 Top 22% higher than 78% of 5,420 collectors
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Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database · September 2026
Complaint Trend (24 months)
Falling ↓Issue Detail Breakdown
| Issue | Complaints |
|---|---|
| Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed | |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | |
| Communication tactics | |
| Disclosure verification of debt | |
| Written notification about debt | |
| Taking/threatening an illegal action | |
| False statements or representation | |
| Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly | |
| Improper contact or sharing of info | |
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.
Top states by complaints against Richard Sokoloff, Attorney At Law
Across 4 states with at least one filing
- New York
New York
44 complaints
- Texas 2
Texas
2 complaints
- Florida 1
Florida
1 complaints
- Tennessee 1
Tennessee
1 complaints
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.
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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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| Sources | the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database |