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Thursday August 29
2019
Webinar: Bankruptcy for Foreclosure Prevention Advocates

This class will discuss bankruptcy remedies for debtors facing foreclosure, including the Chapter 13 catch-up plan, the strip-off and loss mitigation.  We'll also give an overview of the bankruptcy process and discuss indicators for when bankruptcy is worth considering.

  • When
    Thursday, August 29, 2019
    3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 0.50
    Areas of Professional Practice: 1.50
  • Format
    Webinar: Questions Allowed During Program
  • Practice Area(s)
    Consumer/Bankruptcy Law
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    William Kransdorf (Speaker)

    Bill Kransdorf is the Director of the NYC Bankruptcy Assistance Project (NYC BAP) at Legal Services NYC, which provides pro bono assistance to debtors in bankruptcy. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John?s School of Law in Queens, NY, where he has taught the Bankruptcy Advocacy Clinic since 2010. He earned his BA from the University of Chicago in 1989 and his JD from Harvard Law School in 1992. Bill has spent most of his law career in indigent legal services, and also practiced consumer bankruptcy law in California, before moving to New York. In 2005, Legal Services NYC and the Federal Bar Council of New York asked Bill to head up their new Bankruptcy Assistance Project. That Project employs pro bono law students, and attorneys from New York?s top law firms to assist debtors with filing bankruptcy petitions as well providing representation to litigants with contested matters in the bankruptcy courts. The Project has become a national model of pro bono and bankruptcy advocacy. Bill is married with two children.