Eliot Dear, Esquire — New York Bar, Admitted 2005, Good Standing

Before a physician hands an out-of-network dispute to anyone, there is a free, public check worth running: New York keeps an attorney registration record that anyone can search by name or by registration number. Eliot Dear, Esquire, would rather a physician run that search before sending a single claim.

What the Record Shows

The record is kept by the New York courts for attorneys admitted in the state. A registration entry lists the attorney’s name, registration number, year of admission and registration status, and the status line tells a reader whether the registration is current. For Eliot Dear, the entry carries registration number 4329546 and an admission year of 2005, and he is in good standing.

Search the Number, Not the Name

Names get misspelled and shared; a registration number belongs to one attorney. Searching by name works, but a common surname or a typo can surface the wrong person or no one at all. Searching 4329546 returns a single record, which is why that number appears on every submission Eliot Dear signs. A physician who wants certainty about who is signing can match the number on the paperwork to the number on the public record.

Why Check Before Hiring Anyone

Independent Dispute Resolution is a legal process with deadlines, a binding determination and real money in the balance. Not everyone who offers to handle it is a lawyer. A submission signed by a registered New York attorney such as Eliot Dear carries a name and a number anyone can look up; paperwork from a billing vendor carries neither. A physician should know which one is being hired, and the record answers that before anything is sent.

The Background Behind the Entry

The record gives the admission year; the background gives the context. Eliot Dear earned his J.D. at Fordham University School of Law, where he served on the Fordham Law Review, and worked as an associate in structured finance at Clifford Chance LLP from 2004 to 2008, on securitizations heavy with documentation. He has spent about twenty years in out-of-network physician billing and founded Claims Assassins in 2018.

Check, Then Send

Run the search, confirm the number, then send one claim for a free review. Eliot Dear, Esquire, signs every submission under that same registration number.