about Our Firm

Sherman & Ticchio is committed to leveraging its extensive experience to ensure you receive high quality, effective legal advice.

We believe that seasoned attorneys and thoroughly tested legal strategies are necessary to ensure the best possible results. We therefore keep our firm focused only on the following practice areas to ensure we can provide the best quality legal services:

Identity theft resulting in credit report errors
Mixed credit files
Inaccurate background check reports

Here at Sherman & Ticchio, we take pride in our results-focused practice. We utilize our wealth of legal knowledge to most effectively advocate for each of our clients. Our firm focuses on achieving the best possible outcomes while maintaining the highest ethical standards. Our clients are always our priority, and we greatly appreciate the praise attorneys and clients alike have generously offered in our community.

If you are a victim of inaccurate credit or background check reporting, give us a call. We look forward to providing you the same service we’ve had the privilege to offer our community for so many years.

Who We Help

The attorneys of Sherman & Ticchio PLLC have extensive experience representing clients with all manner of errors and inaccuracies on their credit and background check reports. Clients generally see inaccurate information appearing on their reports owing to one of the following three reasons (and in rare cases, a combination of these three):

Identity Theft

Identity theft is common, and victims of identity theft can find their credit ruined in one of many ways. Identity thieves may open credit cards in the victim’s name, or steal existing credit cards, and run up thousands of dollars of debt. This leaves the victim on the hook for the debt, but it can also lead to the creditor reporting the debt (and any associated late payments) to the credit reporting agencies. Identity theft isn’t just limited to the victim’s credit; in some cases thieves have committed crimes and used the victim’s information upon arrest. This can lead to the victim having an inaccurate criminal history appearing on tenant screening and background check reports.

Mixed File

In “mixed file” cases, the credit reporting agencies have combined the information of two similar individuals. You may find a whole host of accounts appearing on your credit reports that you don’t recognize, along with names, addresses, dates of birth, employment information, etc. Generally, this occurs because your information is very similar to another individual’s. For example, you may share the same name and date of birth. This can lead to errors ranging from inaccurate addresses appearing on your credit reports to inaccurate criminal history appearing on your tenant screening and background check reports.

Inaccurate Status Reporting

In “status” cases, clients find that information associated with an account is inaccurate. For example, you may see your mortgage appearing on your credit report, but be surprised to see that you are listed as being 90 days late on your payments, even though you have never missed a payment in your life. You may also find that your landlord has reported you as having been evicted with no basis for doing so.