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Some Students CAN Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy

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Marketplace Money ran an interview with Ron Lieber, author of the recent NYT story on discharging student loan debt in bankruptcy:

1) Marketplace Money (9/7/12) podcast: Student loans and bankruptcy

2)  Ron Lieber’s (9/31/12) New York Times article:
Last Plea on School Loans: Proving a Hopeless Future

Other NYT articles by Ron Lieber.


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Oregon Legal Notices of Sales of Real & Personal Property on OSSA Website

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Oregon State Sheriff’s Office Association (OSSA) (a tax-exempt nonprofit) website states:

“OSSA’s sole function in relation to Sheriffs’ Sales of real and personal property is to post legal notices as authorized by ORS 18.924.”

Link to ORS 18.924.

A Statesman Journal, June 13, 2012, article: “Website to list legal notices for sales.” [SJ website may force you to log-in, but you can link directly to the OSSA Sheriffs Sale website for the legal notices of sale.]

Excerpt: “The Oregon State Sheriff’s Office Association will begin hosting a website for legal notices of sale of real and personal property starting this Friday.

Once a judge orders a piece of property to be sold, the county sheriff’s offices assists in that sale by holding an auction. Up until last year, the agency would be required by law to post notices of those auctions in public places. For real estate, the agency was required to run a notice in the newspaper once a week for four consecutive weeks. For other types of property, a public notice was required to be posted in a public place between 10 and 20 days.

In 2011, legislators decided to allow the OSSA to host a website and post these notices on the Internet.…” [Read full story.  The SJ website may force you to log-in in order to read the June 13th, but you can link directly to the OSSA Sheriffs Sale website for the legal notices of sale.]

Oregon Bankruptcy, Employment, and other Pro Bono Legal Clinics

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Do you have questions about … debt collection, bankruptcy, employment (wage claims, termination, discrimination & unemployment), or expungement of a criminal record?

Oregon attorneys volunteering at these two Pro Bono Legal Clinics may be of assistance. Link to clinic flyers from the Washington County Law Library What’s New? webpage:

1) Oregon Law Center & Intel Corporation’s Pro Bono Debt Clinic

2) Bankruptcy Clinic (sponsored by Legal Aid, Oregon Law Center, & Debtor-Creditor Section of OSB)

New legal research guide – Bankruptcy

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The good news out of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon is that overall bankruptcy filings for the district were down in 2011 compared to 2010.  There were 17,151 cases filed in 2011, compared with 19,741 in 2010.  If you compare the 2011 numbers with the total case filings from 2005 (32,168 total case filings), the 2011 statistics appear promising.  However, we still receive many questions about filing for bankruptcy.  So, we’ve created a new legal research guide on bankruptcy, available on the Washington County Law Library’s website.  As usual, if you can’t find a document on our website, check out our handy, alphabetical document index.    

Transferring Ownership (title) of Vehicles in Oregon in Divorce, Bankruptcy, or Estate

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The Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin, June 2011, has a useful article in their Legal Practice Tips column: “Get it Right the First Time: Settling Ownership of Vehicles,” by William Leslie.
Excerpt: “Handling a titled vehicle in a divorce, bankruptcy or estate doesn’t have to be hard, but simple mistakes are made by new and experienced attorneys alike….
Here are some common mistakes made by attorneys in handling vehicles. The concepts apply equally well to boats, airplanes and anything else with a title issued by a state agency….” [Link to full article.]

Oregon 2011 Bankruptcy Clinic

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The 2011 OSB & LASO Bankruptcy Clinic schedule is out:

The Bankruptcy Clinic classes are held on Tuesday evenings, from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Appointments follow the classes. There is no child-care available.

The Clinics begin at 6:15 p.m. and start with a bankruptcy class taught by a judge or experienced bankruptcy lawyer. Class are open to all residents of Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill Counties.

Following the class volunteer attorneys meet with clients on an appointment only basis. These appointments generally begin at 7:15 p.m

Dates for 2011 are:

January 18 – Downtown Portland
February 15 – East Portland
March 15 – Beaverton
March 15 – Bend
April 12 – Downtown Portland
May 17 – East Portland
June 21 – Beaverton
June 23 – Bend
July 19 – Downtown Portland
August 16 – East Portland
September 20 – Beaverton
September 29 – Bend
October 18 – Downtown Portland
November 15 – East Portland
December 7 – Bend
December 13 – Beaverton

More bankruptcy information:

The OSB Debtor-Creditor Section and Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) bankruptcy (and other) links to information and their brochure are from their Oregon Law Help webpages.You can also just telephone LASO at: 503-224-4086

And, you can view the Oregon State Bar (OSB) and their Public Information webpages have additional information.

Bankruptcy Clinic: Oregon State Bar (OSB) and Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO)

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It’s time to update my June 15, 2008 LASO Bankruptcy Clinic blog post.

The OSB Debtor-Creditor Section and LASO bankruptcy (and other) links to information and their brochure are from their Oregon Law Help webpages.

You can also just telephone LASO at: 503-224-4086

If these links break again before I get to update them again, just search (using your search engine of choice) for “Oregon bankruptcy clinic.”

Oregon Bankruptcy Law Blogs

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Bankruptcy law is federal law so you want to look not only at Oregon attorney, law firm, and legal blogs, but also at federal bankruptcy online resources. (There are print bankruptcy legal resources but this blog post focuses on the online “current awareness” blogs only, or primarily.)

Federal Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Oregon

I list below a few Oregon bankruptcy attorney blogs, selected from the many excellent Oregon attorney websites, many of which have a lot of information but are not strictly speaking “blogs.” (And, please see the Disclaimer, below.)

The blogs I list below are active current-awareness blogs written as much, if not more, for the layperson as for their lawyer colleagues.

Please let me know of others, keeping in mind that to be added to the list the law firm’s blog postings must be current, newsworthy and/or educational, and the blog should be relatively active, that is, the blogging attorney posts to the bankruptcy blog at least a couple of times a month.

1) Lawyer Ben (Oregon attorney Ben Knaupp) blogs about foreclosure, bankruptcy, and related consumer debt issues.

2) Oregon Bankruptcy Blog (Oregon attorney Tom McAvity): blogs about all things bankruptcy, including educational posts and links to articles.

3) Portland Bankruptcy Law Group (Oregon attorneys Christopher Kane and Adam Weiner): blog about foreclosures and bankruptcy law.

How to Search for More Oregon Bankruptcy Law Blogs/Blog Posts

1) Use your favorite search engine’s blog search function

2) Blawsearch at Justia has a simple and effective search engine for blog keyword searching. For example, from the Blawgsearch page:

a) Enter these words, Oregon bankruptcy
b) From your results screen, click on “Sort by Date” (on the top, right side of the page)

Further Afield:

1) Bankruptcy Law Network

2) Nolo Press Bankruptcy and Foreclosure blog (other Nolo Press blogs)

3) Law Professors Blog Network, Bankruptcy Prof Blog

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