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The firm behind the dog
The bulldog is the mark. The docket is the work. MCA Bulldog is the merchant cash advance practice of Usher Law Group, P.C., a litigation firm at 1600 Sheepshead Bay Road in Brooklyn.
The person who reads your funding agreement is one of these three attorneys. We will
never sell your file, and nothing is ever farmed out to a contract reviewer that you will
never meet.
Founding & Managing Attorney
Mikhail Usher, Esq.
NY Bar
NJ Bar
FL Bar
English · Русский · Español
Founded the firm after St. Thomas University School of Law and a clerkship with the Hon. Amy Steele Donner in Dade County, Florida. Practiced immigration, criminal, employment and consumer-protection law in Brooklyn before opening Usher Law Group, and has led it since. Recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star and later as a Super Lawyer. Works with clients in English, Russian and Spanish.
Federal admissionsE.D.N.Y. · S.D.N.Y. · D.N.J. · M.D. Fla. · S.D. Fla. · 1st, 2d & 3d Circuits
Senior Associate Attorney
Alexander Susi, Esq.
NY Bar
NJ Bar
PA Bar
Studied history and political science at New York University and earned his J.D. at Boston University School of Law. Defends businesses against lenders and merchant cash advance companies and negotiates debt settlements, alongside civil and commercial litigation, contract drafting and review, and immigration work.
Federal admissionsE.D. Pa.
Associate Attorney
Mitchell Bromberg, Esq.
NY Bar
NJ Bar
Earned his J.D. at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law after a bachelor's degree in political science. Works on the firm's debt-settlement and consumer-debt matters and on motion practice and appeals, in addition to a detained immigration docket. Carries the research and briefing on the firm's contested applications.
Federal admissionsE.D.N.Y. · S.D.N.Y. · D.N.J.
The office
One address, four languages, no call center.
Three attorneys work here, alongside the paralegals and assistants who
keep a litigation docket moving. When you call (718) 484-7510, the phone rings at 1600 Sheepshead Bay Road, and it is answered in English, Russian, Spanish or Uzbek by someone who works here, not by a call center.
Why a bulldog
Bred to hold, not to bite
The breed was not built for speed or for a first strike. It was built low, wide and
heavy-jawed for one job: to take a grip and keep it while everything above it tried to
shake loose. That is what the crest on this page stands for, and it is why the poster on
the home page shows the dog with a chain in its teeth rather than a bone.
That is the whole argument for putting one on the door. A merchant cash advance funder's
collection model does not depend on being right. It depends on the merchant running out
of attention, money or nerve first: on the restraint staying on long enough, the
default judgment going unopposed, the UCC filing sitting unchallenged because nobody
sent the demand letter that starts the twenty-day clock.
The defense is not clever. It is a lawyer who files the order to show cause this week
rather than next month, answers before the deadline instead of after it, and is still
on the docket at motion four when the funder assumed everyone would be gone. Grip, not
teeth.
The bulldog is our mark, not a claim. Nothing about the artwork on
this site says anything about the outcome of your matter, only about how we
intend to work it.
Who you are actually retaining
A brand name in front of a law firm, and we say which
Plenty of legal websites in this space are lead-brokerage operations that sell your intake to
whichever firm is buying that week. This is not one of them. MCA Bulldog is a
practice name used by Usher Law Group, P.C. When you retain us, you retain the firm. The
engagement letter names the firm. The notice of appearance names the firm. The attorney reading
your funding agreement is the attorney whose name is on the door.
Mikhail Usher, Esq., founding and managing attorney
Mr. Usher earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Brooklyn College and his law
degree from St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, where he served as a
senator in the Student Bar Association, competed on the school's national-champion mock trial team,
and graduated with high honors. He clerked for the Hon. Amy Steele Donner in Dade
County, Florida.
After admission in New York and New Jersey he practiced immigration, criminal, employment and
consumer-protection law at a Brooklyn firm, where he built out the criminal division, and later
passed the Florida bar. He opened Usher Law Group, P.C. roughly three years afterward and has led
it since. He has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star and subsequently
as a Super Lawyer, and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American
Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers Association, and the New York and New Jersey State Bar
Associations.
He is admitted in New York, New Jersey and Florida with federal admissions
including the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, the
Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, and the First, Second and Third Circuits. He leads the
firm's commercial litigation and MCA defense work.
He speaks Russian and Spanish in addition to English. That is
worth stating plainly rather than burying: a Sheepshead Bay merchant with a restrained operating
account should be able to discuss a reconciliation covenant and a CPLR 5240 application in the
language they actually think in, with the lawyer handling the file, not through an interpreter
line staffed by someone who has never read a UCC-1.
Directly relevant to this practice
Both associates already do this work
Alexander Susi's practice expressly includes defending businesses against
lenders and merchant cash advance companies, and negotiating debt settlements. He also drafts
and reviews the commercial agreements on the other side of these disputes, which helps when the job is reading a funding contract for defects.
Mitchell Bromberg works the firm's debt-settlement and consumer-debt docket
alongside his motion practice, and carries the research and briefing load on contested
applications.
Where we appear
New York State Supreme Court: Kings, Queens, New York, Bronx and Richmond
Counties, with NYSCEF electronic filing.
Federal court: Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; District of New Jersey; Middle and Southern
Districts of Florida; the First, Second and Third Circuits on appeal.
Florida: Broward Circuit Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeal.
Most MCA agreements contain New York forum-selection clauses, which means out-of-state merchants
regularly find themselves defending here. That is the docket we live in.
What "MCA-focused" means and does not mean
We are a litigation firm with a concentrated MCA practice
We will not tell you that 100% of what we do is merchant cash advance defense, because it is
not true. Usher Law Group, P.C. is a general litigation firm whose work also includes commercial and civil
litigation, immigration and deportation defense, criminal defense, family law, employment and
wage-and-hour matters, and consumer protection.
What is true is that MCA defense is a concentrated, recurring part of the docket: the same funders, the same drafting counsel, the same clause library, the same courts. That repetition
is the actual advantage, and it is a more useful claim than a percentage nobody can verify.
How we charge
Flat fee where the scope can honestly be defined. A motion to vacate a
confession of judgment, an answer with affirmative defenses and counterclaims, a UCC termination
demand campaign: these have knowable boundaries, and we price them that way.
Hourly where the scope genuinely cannot be defined. Contested litigation with
discovery, depositions and an uncertain end date does not fit a flat fee, and quoting one anyway
just means the fee gets revisited later under worse circumstances.
Either way, the number and what it covers appear in the engagement letter before you commit.
The case review that produces the number is free and carries no obligation.
Languages
English, Русский and Español with Mr. Usher. Uzbek at the front desk.
Office
Usher Law Group, P.C., Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
Usher Law Group, P.C. 1600 Sheepshead Bay Road, Suite 203 Brooklyn, New York 11235
Tel (718) 484-7510 · Fax (718) 865-8566 info@usherlegal.com
Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Emergencies (a restrained operating account, an imminent levy, an answer deadline inside 48 hours) are triaged outside those hours.
About the firm
Frequently asked
MCA Bulldog is a practice name of a law firm: Usher Law Group, P.C., a New York professional corporation with its principal office at 1600 Sheepshead Bay Road, Suite 203, Brooklyn, New York 11235. It is not a lead-generation service and it does not sell or refer out your intake. Mikhail Usher, Esq. is the attorney responsible for the content of this website.
Mr. Usher reviews every MCA intake and every funding agreement. Alexander Susi, whose practice already includes defending businesses against lenders and merchant cash advance companies, carries much of the substantive MCA work. Mitchell Bromberg handles research, briefing and the debt-settlement side. Support staff run UCC searches, county clerk retrievals, document assembly and NYSCEF filing.
You are told who is doing what, and the engagement letter identifies the responsible attorney.
Yes, in the states and courts where we are admitted. Mr. Usher is admitted in New York, New Jersey and Florida, with federal admissions including E.D.N.Y., S.D.N.Y., D.N.J., M.D. Fla., S.D. Fla. and the First, Second and Third Circuits. Where a matter belongs in a jurisdiction where we are not admitted and cannot appropriately associate local counsel, we say so rather than taking the engagement.
Yes. Mr. Usher speaks both and talks with clients directly, not through an interpreter service. Да, по-русски. Sí, en español.
We read the funding agreement and any confession of judgment, we read whatever you were served with, we identify the governing deadline, and we tell you what is contestable and what is not. Then we quote a fee. There is no obligation and no charge, and if we think the honest answer is that there is not much to work with, that is what you will hear.
Talk to the attorney who will read your agreement.
Not an intake screener, not a call center, and not a lead broker who will sell your inquiry to whoever is buying this week.
