Each December, the Bankruptcy Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA) sponsors what is always a worthwhile and educational advanced bankruptcy seminar for Oklahoma bankruptcy attorneys. This year’s advanced bankruptcy seminar is being held today and tomorrow at the Oklahoma Bar Center in Oklahoma City.
I usually attend the advanced bankruptcy seminar but after reviewing this year’s seminar schedule several months ago, I decided to take this year off. That’s because much of this year’s seminar is devoted to issues pertaining to corporate bankruptcy & Chapter 11 practice.
Long ago, I made the decision to focus my bankruptcy practice on helping regular people who are struggling with overwhelming debt.
And at this time, I’m happy and content to continue to limit myself to working solely in the realm of consumer bankruptcy which includes Chapter 7 and Chapter 13.
While I often deal with many business issues in bankruptcy as many of my clients are self-employed sole-proprietors or majority shareholders of small businesses, I have absolutely no desire to venture into the realm of corporate bankruptcy and Chapter 11 practice.
The one presentation that I regret I’ll miss is “Marketing Your Practice in the 21st Century” by Jay Fleischman, consumer bankruptcy lawyer extraordinaire of Brooklyn, NY.
I count Jay as a personal friend who I’ve known for a number of years through our mutual membership in NACBA (National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys).
And I’ve benefited greatly from Jay’s knowledge on a broad range of issues from substantive law to marketing to organization to technology.
If you’re a consumer bankruptcy lawyer but you’re not familiar with Jay, here are a just a few of Jay’s enterprises that I can highly recommend:
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Thanks for the kind words, Dan. I missed seeing you in Oklahoma City this past week; it’s truly a remarkable city, and I was fortunate to have met so many fine bankruptcy professionals.
We’ll have to catch up next year at the NACBA conference in San Francisco if not sooner.
Jay,
I’m glad to hear that your first trip to Oklahoma was a good experience. From your NACBA email, it sounds like Elaine Dowling was a great hostess in showing you some local sights and making sure you were well fed. I look forward to spending some time visiting with you if If I’m able to be in San Francisco at next year’s NACBA convention. Until then, I’ll have to settle for our PPM teleconference calls.
Dan