The critical bankruptcy attorney skill I added to my tool box came late in my bankruptcy career. It wasn’t plotting the course of a case, manipulating the means test, or success in the courtroom. It was much simpler: the willingness
How do you effectively represent a client at the 341 meeting? It’s simple: prepare the trustee and your client for the meeting, then do your best imitation of a “potted plant.” at the hearing. Well prepared, you have
The first meeting with a bankruptcy prospect is the best and hardest work I do.It’s probably the most important as well. I use it to figure out what the issues in the case are, what the client’s goals are, and
I have a theory about growing your bankruptcy practice: as long as you take on only the most straightforward cases, growing your practice becomes more a matter of marketing than lawyering.You and every bankruptcy lawyer around you are competing for
What bankruptcy timelines really matter? The internet is awash with debtors reporting that their attorney has told them they have to wait to file.
They’ve reportedly been told to wait 90 days or 6 months, or ?? from some event
The initial meeting with a prospective bankruptcy client is the most important work I do as a bankruptcy lawyer. It’s also the hardest.
The results of that meeting lay the groundwork for the entirety of the case.
The challenge is
Put off the division of community property in a marital dissolution at your peril. Hesitate and you risk all of the community property being swept up in a bankruptcy by the other spouse. And you’ll have little control where community
Avoiding bankruptcy malpractice is a learned skill and necessary for professional survival. If word of mouth from happy clients is the world’s best advertising for a bankruptcy lawyer, loud complaints from unhappy clients in the internet age is professional poison.
Contributions to an employer-sponsored retirement plan going forward are excluded from disposable income in Chapter 13, says the 9th Circuit in Saldana, 122 F.4th 333, 19 years after BAPCPA became law. What took so long? Words in the statute matter
