Protas, Spivok & Collins, LLC

Protas, Spivok & Collins, LLC was established over seventy years ago as a creditors rights law firm. Over the years the firm's practice has grown from handling matters including retail collections and commercial collections to other creditors rights issues including bankruptcy, commercial litigation, repossessions, landlord and tenant, civil litigation, foreclosures, and real estate. The lawyers in our firm have over 75 years of collection experience. Our service area includes the District of Columbia, Maryland and Northern Virginia and we maintain associations with collection attorneys in other geographic areas throughout the country. In addition, our firm maintains the Vertican computer collection system. We have in the past and continue to represent a number of banks, credit unions, healthcare practitioners, utilities, various collection agencies and businesses with their collection matters.

Founded in 1935 by Harry Protas, the firm was established primarily as a business-oriented collection practice in the District of Columbia. Mr. Protas developed an expertise in the field of collection and commercial law, as well as in the related areas of bankruptcy, foreclosure, repossession and creditors' rights. For many years, Mr. Protas was considered to be the premier local practitioner in the District of Columbia in those areas of the law. During the latter part of the 1960's and the beginning of the 1970's, the firm expanded from sole practitioner, to a firm consisting of several attorneys focusing on creditors rights. Although collections and commercial litigation remain the firms principal area of practice, Protas, Spivok & Collins, LLC has expanded over the past 30 years into nearly all aspects of civil litigation, foreclosure, landlord and tenant, commercial real estate lease drafting and negotiation, and transactional banking work. Our bankruptcy and foreclosure departments have become more sophisticated as a result of our decision to employ attorneys with expertise in those areas and to permit them to expand that expertise by practicing primarily within these areas of the law.

Locations	No. of Attorneys
Bethesda, MD	3