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I'm assuming that you're UK based.Taking your question literally, the answer has to be 'No', you can't force them to pay you back. You can only demand repayment but it's likely you've already done so with no result.I assume that you have your reasons for not wanting to take the small claims route and I do, of course respect your decision, however, it's often the case that the threat of legal action prompts people into making offers.The court is there to enforce an agreement when one side or the other reneges.Armed with an order of the court you will have options to enforce payment such as an Attachment of Earnings Order or you could instruct bailiffs to seize goods to the value of the judgement debt.There is this too: if you proceed to judgement, this will impair his credit status and in consequence, his ability to raise credit. At the very least, then you will have helped prevent others from suffering your fate. It might also teach him a lesson.Good luck.

There is a big difference between being a lawyer and a business person. Many lawyers are terrible business people. In addition, even if they are good business people, they are often focused on the practice of law, and sometimes the business aspects get away from them.In an area of practice where you live and die by contingency fees, it is possible to get caught up in spending the necessary money to keep the firm and the cases running, since the firm fronts the costs. Many very successful firms will run into periods when they are having serious financial issues. When I worked as a consultant, sometimes personal injury firms would ask me if they could delay paying me because funds had run low. They were expecting money to come in over the next few weeks and would pay me then.I am not saying it is great that his firm went bankrupt. I cannot tell you that they were engaging in responsible management or how they ended up in the situation they ended up in. But I can tell you that the mere fact that a law firm goes bankrupt is not the end of the world.I can also tell you that when law firms break up or lawyers leave firms, it often gets nasty. It is unfortunate, but it is the reality. Often they will accuse each other of unethical conduct. I didn’t like, however, that a judge ruled that the conduct on the part of the firm was inappropriate.None of this tells us that Avenatti is a bad lawyer, however. It does suggest to us that he may not be very good at running a law firm, or that the lawyer running the firm wasn’t great at it. We do appear to have objective evidence that Cohen is not a great lawyer. Why? He apparently cannot even properly write a proper settlement agreement. As of now, I have not seen any evidence that Avenatti is either a good or a bad lawyer. I was unaware of Avenatti until the Stormy Daniels case. All I have seen so far is that he is good with the press. I have not researched him as a lawyer, so I cannot speak to his abilities in this regard.It is important to note that this situation does not involve a fine. Rather, Avenatti is alleged to have failed to meet the terms of a payment agreement. As a result, Avenatti is looking at enforcement of a judgment against him related to his old firm.As far as I can tell, simply by what the press is reporting, Avenatti agreed to take on personal responsibility for some matters related to the bankruptcy of his old firm. Under an agreement, Avenatti agreed to make payments toward an individual and the government on specific dates. The allegations involve failure to meet the deadline(s). This caused the judgment to move forward. What this means is that instead of being allowed to make payments, the firm or its prior owner(s), in this case Avenatti, are/is required to pay the full balance now. Avenatti will no doubt go to court and challenge this. I would expect that he will work out some new payment arrangement.

If the settlement was a judicially entered in a previous lawsuit file a motion to enforce the judgment in that court. If the settlement was before a lawsuit was filed.. file an appropriate lawsuit for breach of contract. If the settlement was entered in after an administrative complaint (such as here in Michigan USA we have a state administrative agency, the Wage and Hour Commission which enforces payment of wages), file a complaint with that agency.