Federal Courts Offer Training on Bankruptcy Basics
A new video training program on bankruptcy practice offered by the federal courts is geared toward nonlawyers. But it’s also likely to be helpful to attorneys who don’t already practice in the field and want to get an overall view of bankruptcy procedure.
The eight-part video training program, Bankruptcy Basics, can be downloaded from the U.S. Courts website.
“Obviously, bankruptcy is a very specialized area of the law; not everyone who practices law knows the ins and outs of bankruptcy,” federal courts spokesman Richard Carelli tells the ABA Journal. The training program, however, clarifies what might seem to some the mysteries of bankruptcy “using simple declarative sentences.”
The program was largely put together by the Middle District of Florida. But once it was offered for general use by the Middle District of Florida, the program was supplemented a bit to give it a national perspective, Carelli says.
Although individual federal courts often offer help to pro se litigants, it is unusual for the federal court system to provide a national legal education program online.
