Bankruptcy Volunteer Resources
Types of Bankruptcy Volunteering & Requirements
Bankruptcy Advice Clinic (phone only)
The attorney must have a good understanding of bankruptcy law and practice, for clients will have many questions as they try to decide if bankruptcy will meet their needs or some other bankruptcy questions. This is not an entry level position.
Screening Clients requesting a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
Although this role is mostly involved in screening, the clients will have some bankruptcy questions, so it is good for the attorney to have a good general knowledge of bankruptcy law and practice.
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy representation of VLN Clients
This is a good entry level role, for VLN is willing to help the attorney through the process of getting admitted to federal court, and to train the attorney in bankruptcy law and practice. VLN has free bankruptcy software and mentors to help attorneys get a good start.
Bankruptcy Adversary Procedure
This is a good role for attorneys with both a knowledge of bankruptcy law and bankruptcy litigation.
To learn the basics of bankruptcy law and practice, VLN has some excellent training materials from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC):
Four PowerPoints:
Four Detailed PDF Guides:
VLN’s Bankruptcy Team has webinars available to watch from ProJusticeMN:
- Go to projusticemn.org and set up an account (free)
- Then follow this path: Click on Library
- Click “Consumer Law”
- Click “Bankruptcy”
- Select which webinar year you wish to watch (note: the material by the two trustees basically repeats every year with minor changes as needed).
- Look on the right side of the page and down to see the materials and videos you can select. Note that the second video from 2017 featuring Attorney Ron Lundquist is unique to that year, so watch it along with the two webinar videos for a given year.
Please contact the Bankruptcy Resource Attorney if you need other resources.
