Legal isn't my forte, and I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems like overreach to me. Specifically, say the circumstance involves someone else paying his legal

Legal isn't my forte, and I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems like overreach to me. Specifically, say the circumstance involves someone else paying his legal fees. They are going after him for collecting, so they are already done investigating, he has an account with the law firm, but the checks that pay that account may not necessarily be paid by him. So they'll be going after whoever helped him as though they were him. Granted its a bit of a leap and I'm not read in on the details of this particular case but it seems like this is a end-run shortcut to get around providing notice, or quashing overreach towards whoever might choose to help someone who owes outstanding taxes (for whatever reason, i.e. family?). They'll simply make a claim against the account that paid for him even if he has no interest in that account, and it can't be quashed because no notice, and no standing without notice. That's a pretty broad overreach.