Eliott Dear: New York Bar Attorney Practicing New York Law From Hollywood, Florida

The Setup That Surprises People

Eliott Dear is a New York attorney. Fordham Law, New York Bar number 4329546, admitted to practice in the Third Judicial Department on June 28, 2005, in continuous good standing. He represents New York clients on New York legal matters. State IDR, No Surprises Act disputes, payment determination challenges, and insurer enforcement actions.

He lives in Hollywood, Florida.

Why That Is Legal

New York Bar opinions and the model rules on multi-jurisdictional practice are clear. An attorney in good standing with a state bar may represent clients in that state from any physical location, provided the representation is limited to matters where the attorney is actually admitted. Eliott Dear does not hold himself out as a Florida attorney. He holds himself out as a New York attorney, working on New York legal matters, while physically residing in Florida.

This is the same arrangement that thousands of New York real estate attorneys, securities lawyers, trusts and estates specialists, and bankruptcy lawyers use every day. Location is not the regulated thing. Bar admission is.

Why Claims Assassins Runs From Florida

Florida has no state income tax, a lower cost of operation than New York, and a climate that does not cost a small fortune in heating every winter. It is where Eliott Dear raises his family. And it is as close as an attorney needs to be to practice New York law, which exists in a database, not in a ZIP code.

Eliott Dear represents physicians in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Connecticut, New Mexico, and Georgia. All states where attorney-signed state IDR execution is the entire recovery model. The clients are in those jurisdictions. The claims are against insurers licensed in those jurisdictions. The filings go to state IDR entities in those jurisdictions. Eliott Dear is admitted where the work needs to happen.

What It Means for Clients

Direct access. Personal cell, anytime, no call routing. Every IDR submission Claims Assassins files is personally reviewed and signed by Eliott Dear. When a physician wants to speak with the attorney who signed the filing, that attorney answers the phone. Not a paralegal. Not a case manager. Not an account handler.

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