This site, stuffed full of all things related to bankruptcy law and practice skills, is a work in progress.
It was begun with Samuel Johnson in mind:
The State Bar has approved Law-Full as a multiple activity provider of professional education offering California MCLE credit. Watch here for announcements of new offerings for bankruptcy lawyers.
Cathy Moran
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A huge huzzah to Bill Purdy for his stellar presentation on the tax consequences of foreclosure and short sales today. It’s pretty amazing when one can make tax both accessible and imperative to lawyers who work in other fields.
A theme that ran through Bill’s material is that 1099′s generated by banks upon foreclosure are often wrong and if unexamined, result in unnecessary taxes. Further, the face-slap of taxes on top of foreclosure is often avoidable with good representation.
A recording of the 2 hour class should be available shortly for those who couldn’t make a Saturday morning class.
Judge Jaroslovsky presents Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Practice, geared to those new to consumer practice, March 30, 5-7 at the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum. The program is designed to be highly interactive, and lots of time is reserved for questions.
Topics covered will include:
Interviewing and counseling skills
Preparation of schedules and statement of affairs
The 341 hearing
Drafting Chapter 13 plans
Dealing with objections
Filing adversary proceedings
Dealing with omitted creditors
Cases with money to be distributed to creditors
Enforcing the automatic stay and discharge injunction
Setting and collecting fees
Bankruptcy forms
Fundamentals of electronic filing
Sign up information is available at the Forum’s website.
Enrollment is open for a 3 hour class on the basics of bankruptcy’s means test.
Designed for those new to bankruptcy practice and those still uncertain about the means test, this class will go over B-22 line by line. We’ll talk about what is settled law and what is not. We’ll also look at trouble shooting the form when DMI seems excessive.
Cost is $350; MCLE credit is available.
Mark your calendar for Saturday March 26th.
More information and sign up here.
Coming on March 26: 3 hours of line by line training on bankruptcy’s infamous means test.
More later.
All the personal financial advice that we deliver client by client will soon be found online at Money Health Central, a venture of six veteran bankruptcy lawyers. We’re going to be talking about dealing with debt, living below your means, and for those newly freed from debt, about staying out of debt’s clutches.
My friend Gene Melchionne got us off to a stunning start with his post why your credit score doesn’t matter. If you are a bankruptcy lawyer, how many times have you had to make that point?
Point your clients here for sound advice burnished by years of advising consumers. If you have something you’d like to add, send us a guest post.
Counter to my usual image, I started writing about food and clothes<g>
While I’ve been working on improving the legal skills of new bankruptcy lawyers, my friend Jay Fleischman has taken another route. Not that he’s working on illegal skills: he’s training lawyers in all kinds of practices on getting clients, providing superior service, and finding the best ways to harness the internet and technology to do so profitably.
Jay’s Legal Practice Pro website has spawned a membership service with online seminars and instructional material on all the things Jay is expert at. The Community is open at a discount til July 30. It’s a monthly subscription, $77/month if you sign up before month’s end. Money back guarantee, terminate at any time. Can’t imagine that you’d want to, but that’s my opinion.
If you want a more robust skill set in the business side of the practice of law, mosey on over and sign up.
Thursday night I’m presenting a workshop on the basics of creditor claims in bankruptcy for new consumer bankruptcy lawyers. We’ll look at;
Save June 17 for a two hour presentation on Creditor Claims and Contested Matters. Truly the product of popular demand (and incessant questions<g>) this class will look at reviewing proofs of claim; claims objections, and the rules governing contested matters. As always, we will focus on basics with an eye to what you can’t learn in books.
More information to follow but plan on being there June 17 5-7 p.m. at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Law-full is the access point for all things related to bankruptcy law and practice.
Begun as Cathy Moran’s personal on line law library, it serves as a bulletin board for bankruptcy law activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. With deference to copyright on some of the material stored here, parts of the site are not freely accessible.
Cathy