Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC in Texas

Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC is a collection law firm headquartered in West Des Moines, IA. It has held a Texas surety bond continuously for 4 years, and currently has an active $10,000 bond on file with the Texas Secretary of State (SoS File 20220076), meeting the Texas Finance Code Chapter 392 requirement for third-party debt collectors. Each fact below links to where it comes from wherever a source is on record, with the date it was last checked where a check has run.

This is a law firm, not a collection agency. A law practice that regularly collects consumer debts is a debt collector under the federal FDCPA, and it can also file a collection lawsuit for a creditor, as the creditor's lawyer and in the creditor's name. That difference is why law firms are listed separately, on the collection law firms page, and never in the agency rankings.

4 years

of continuous verified Texas bond history on the Texas Secretary of State register. Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC currently holds an active $10,000 surety bond.

Source: texas-sos.appianportalsgov.com · Last checked: October 5, 2026

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Public-record facts about Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC

Fact	Value	Source
Headquarters	West Des Moines, IA	Named on: midwestlawgroup.com · Last checked: October 10, 2026
Year founded	2000	Stated on: midwestlawgroup.com · Last checked: September 26, 2026
Company type	Collection law firm	Classified by us from: midwestlawgroup.com · Last checked: October 10, 2026
Website	midwestlawgroup.com
Careers page	midwestlawgroup.com/about.asp	Linked from: midwestlawgroup.com · Last checked: October 2, 2026
Texas surety bond history	4 years continuously bonded Active SoS File 20220076 · filed June 13, 2022 · Merchants Bonding Company (Mutal) · bond TX5929925	Register: texas-sos.appianportalsgov.com · Last checked: October 5, 2026
CFPB debt-collection complaints on record	73 Recorded by the CFPB under “Abbott Osborn Jacobs PLC”	CFPB database: consumerfinance.gov · Last checked: October 7, 2026

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Common questions about Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC

Is Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC a collection agency or a law firm?

Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC is a law firm that collects debts, not a collection agency. A law practice that regularly collects consumer debts is a debt collector under the federal FDCPA (Heintz v. Jenkins, 1995), and it has a Texas third-party debt collector surety bond on file with the Secretary of State; it can also file a collection lawsuit for a creditor, as the creditor’s lawyer and in the creditor’s name. This site lists collection law firms separately from agencies for that reason.

Is Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC licensed to collect debt in Texas?

Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC has an active $10,000 surety bond on file with the Texas Secretary of State (SoS File 20220076), last checked October 5, 2026. Texas does not issue a collection license; that bond is what Texas Finance Code Chapter 392 requires of a third-party debt collector before it collects consumer debts.

Does Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC have complaints on record?

The public CFPB Consumer Complaint Database records 73 debt-collection complaints referencing Osborn Jacobs & Hartung PLC, which the Bureau records under the company name "Abbott Osborn Jacobs PLC", as of October 7, 2026. This counts debt-collection complaints only, all years, not every complaint the Bureau holds about the company; the profile links the same search on the live CFPB database; a complaint is a record, not a verdict, and the CFPB says its database is not a statistical sample of consumers’ experiences.

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