Eliott Dear, Esq.: From Fordham Law Review to Clifford Chance to Claims Assassins

Eliott Dear is an attorney who builds billing operations—not the other way around. The career arc behind Claims Assassins started at Fordham University School of Law, ran through structured finance at Clifford Chance, and then spent nearly twenty years inside the non-par medical claims world in the New York metro area.

Fordham Law Review

Eliott Dear graduated Fordham Law School as a member of the Fordham Law Review. Law Review at Fordham is one of the flagship academic journals in New York legal academia—the students who make it write, edit, and publish scholarship on complex legal questions alongside the professors. The discipline it builds is the habit of reading a document for what it actually says versus what everyone assumes it says. It is the same discipline Eliott Dear now brings to every non-par claim: read the plan, read the payment determination, read the FAIR Health record, and do not let a narrative from any side substitute for the text.

Clifford Chance — Structured Finance

After law school, Eliott Dear joined Clifford Chance—one of the five largest law firms in the world—as an associate in the structured finance department. Four years of complex financial instruments, capital markets transactions, and institutional deal structure. The kind of work where a single clause in a hundred-page indenture can move tens of millions of dollars.

People ask why a Clifford Chance structured finance associate would leave to build non-par billing operations. The answer is that Eliott Dear had been watching the medical claims market for years—and he could see that the money providers were losing was not being lost at the clinical level. It was being lost downstream, in payment determinations nobody was reading carefully, and in IDR filings nobody was building with the same discipline a Clifford Chance associate would bring to a securitization agreement.

Eliott Dear & Associates, M&D, Revenue Targeted Billing, Claims Assassins

Eliott Dear founded Eliott Dear & Associates PC, then co-founded M&D Capital Advisors and M&D Premier Billing—building them from nothing into full-service non-par claims operations handling plastic surgeons and ER physicians across the New York metro area. After M&D, he founded Revenue Targeted Billing, which became EDRTB LLC, doing business as Claims Assassins.

Same fight, different name. Over twenty years, Eliott Dear has built and refined the practice of turning non-par claims into enforceable payment. What started as general billing work became specialized claims advisory, then became direct IDR execution, and today is a focused legal practice built entirely around state IDR in the jurisdictions where awards actually get paid.

What Claims Assassins Does

Claims Assassins recovers money from insurers through state-run Independent Dispute Resolution processes in New York, Texas, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Mexico, and Georgia. These are the jurisdictions where IDR has real enforcement—where state regulators have the authority to compel payment and the willingness to use it.

Eliott Dear personally signs every IDR submission Claims Assassins files. Every one. Not a paralegal. Not a template engine. An attorney who has reviewed the claim, verified the FAIR Health benchmark data, and is putting his bar number on the determination request. The result is a 99% win rate on state IDR determinations—the outcome of filing legally sound submissions with independently verified benchmark data in jurisdictions where the arbitrator is not starting from the insurer’s self-reported number.

Hollywood, Florida — Practicing New York Law

Eliott Dear is based in Hollywood, Florida. He is admitted to the New York Bar and in good standing—practicing New York law from Florida under a New York Bar opinion permitting practice with New York clients regardless of physical location. Direct access—anytime, on his personal cell, no call routings. Personal references from treating physicians are always available.

The New York metro non-par ER plastic surgery community is a small world. Everyone knows everyone. Eliott Dear has been in that world for nearly two decades. Claims Assassins is not a new entrant—it is the next version of what Eliott Dear has been building since he left Clifford Chance.