Students must complete several exercises during the semester. Most law school courses are designed to expose students to the rules for imposing liability. We will analyze the steps creditors can take to collect judgments and the steps debtors can take to thwart the collection effort. We will also examine the bankruptcy laws to see how they alter the debtor-creditor relationship.
Copies are available in the library.
This course is highly relevant to almost all areas of legal practice, except criminal practice. Victory at trial is meaningless if the judgment cannot be collected. Whether you practice with a large firm or a small one, you will have clients who wish to collect debts and clients who wish to avoid the burden of oppressive debt obligations. Even business lawyers, who never plan to enter a courtroom, must consider the effects of bankruptcy on the deals they are structuring in order to represent commercial clients adequately.