The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has described a debt settlement or debt relief company as companies that say they can renegotiate, settle, or in some way change the terms of a person's debt to a creditor or debt collector. An evaluation of the ethical and legal quandaries of the creditor's rights counsel were faced with debt-settlement letters from unlicensed-for law or as debt settlement companies-representatives purporting to represent Tennessee resident debtors. This discussion will attempt to bridge the Tennessee ethical rules mandates for represented parties, status of attorneys unlicensed in Tennessee for purpose of the Fair Debt Collection Practices and Tennessee’s Uniform Debt Management Services Act.

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