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The lively style, excellent problems, and balanced coverage of The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems have made this text one of the leading bankruptcy law casebooks. Honed through six editions, it continues to provide students and professors with an exemplary instructional tool.

Among the attributes that make this casebook a favorite with teachers and students alike:

• more than 50 problem sets — featuring the realistic questions a lawyer considers in confronting the statutory provisions for a bankruptcy case
• explanatory text throughout makes bankruptcy law accessible to students and easier to teach
• organized functionally, as a bankruptcy case would unfold — students find it logical and sensible
• a thematic “mega-problem” appears throughout the book, providing chapter-by-chapter review and integrating elements of all chapters at the end of the book
• consumer bankruptcy is separated from business bankruptcy for clarity, and the text begins with the more familiar consumer bankruptcy
• an excellent Teacher’s Manual that is especially helpful to newer professors

This timely revision has been updated to reflect recent developments and case law and includes:

• coverage of cases resulting from the 2005 Amendments, including consumer bankruptcy, including Chapter 7; Chapter 13, the “hanging paragraph;” and means test eligibility
• expanded business law coverage with individualized treatment of small business bankruptcies and their bigger, publicly traded Chapter 11 cousins, emphasizing the rapid changes in the world of reorganization and the first international cases under Chapter 15
• as in past editions, there are problem sets for each subject area in the book, however the sixth edition will have variations of some of the problems available, allowing for more flexibility

Classroom-tested through five editions, revised to keep pace with the most recent developments in the world of bankruptcy, The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, Sixth Edition, is an unbeatable method for teaching a practical, animated, and completely state-of-the-art course.

If you’ve taught from Secured Credit: A Systems Approach before, cutting-edge coverage and extraordinary authorship is what you’ve come to expect from two of the foremost authorities in commercial law and bankruptcy. If you have never taught from this book, you have yet to discover the flexibility of its modular organization, how convenient it is to teach using the assignment units, and the pedagogical advantages to teaching the code in the context of actual transactions. (If you have never taught Secured Credit before in your life, you may be somewhat relieved to find LoPucki and Warren’s comprehensive and up-to-date Teacher’s Manual and PowerPoint slides.)

Secured Credit: A Systems Approach, Sixth Edition, features:

• the Systems Approach, examining how the law is applied in actual transactions
• convenient assignment structure and problem-based pedagogy — for added flexibility, some assignments in the Sixth Edition will be have half-way stopping points, to allow one-and-a-half assignments to be covered in a single 75-minute class
• adaptable modular organization that supports different teaching approaches
• a helpful review of the commonalities between secured transactions and bankruptcy
• updated and detailed Teacher’s Manual, with answers to all of the problems as well as suggestions for omitting sections for shorter courses

Thoroughly revised to ensure currency and accuracy, with updated cases, statutes, and rules, the Sixth Edition includes:

• updates to reflect the adoption of Revised Article 1 by a majority of states, while preserving old Article 1 section numbers for use in states that haven’t made the change
• new material on chattel paper, instruments, accounts, and payment intangibles, including the celebrated Commercial Money Center case
• new material on asset securitization, the sale-lease distinction — including In re Worldcom — and new debtors
• updated search methods and costs to reflect migration of the UCC filing systems to the Internet
• two simple, easy-to-use drafting problems — a one-sentence security agreement and a financing statement
• refreshed and revised problems
• detailed and updated Teacher’s Manual and comprehensive PowerPoint slides (available in December 2008)

Whether you’ve been teaching with Secured Credit: A Systems Approach for years, or you’re looking at it for the first time, we think you will be impressed by all that it offers: Outstanding authorship, flexibility, pedagogy, and teaching support.

• ISBN13: 9781413310603
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Title 11, U.S. Code (the Bankruptcy Code)
Bankruptcy related provisions in Title 18 (Crimes & Criminal Procedure)
Bankruptcy related provisions in Title 26 (Internal Revenue Code)
Bankruptcy related provisions in Title 28 (Judiciary & Judicial Procedure)
Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
Adopted Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Bankruptcy Update (summarizing recent changes to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure)
Table showing automatic adjustments to dollar amounts in the provisions specified in 11 USC section 104.

As amended through Dec. 1, 2009. Includes the Dec. 1, 2009 amendments to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure including the new Time Computation amendments for most procedural deadlines. Handy paperback size. Newly expanded index. Cross-references between the Bankruptcy Code and Rules. Cross references from statutory citation to U.S. Code sections. Published in January of each year just weeks after new rule changes take effect.

• ISBN13: 9781413310597
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Renewing a commitment to preparing students to become effective paralegals in all aspects of Bankruptcy, the Seventh Edition of this popular text offers important developments in recent bankruptcy law, expanded coverage of means testing, and enhanced pedagogy. In an illuminating overview of the Bankruptcy Code and Rules, respected author David L. Buchbinder provides step-by-step guidance through the paralegal’s role at every stage of the Bankruptcy proceeding.

A hit with instructors and students, Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals features:

• focused coverage of Bankruptcy that hones in on what students need to know to become effective paralegals in all aspects of Bankruptcy:
  • consumer representation
  • creditor representation
  • assisting with the handling of a Chapter 11 case

• a clear overview of the Bankruptcy Code and Rules
• step-by-step guidance through the paralegal’s role at every stage of a Bankruptcy proceeding
• a practical orientation to completing bankruptcy documentation and the time limits on those documents
• thorough pedagogy that includes:
  • examples
  • checklists of procedures
  • summaries of the law
  • discussion questions
  • practice exercises

• Forms Manual on an accompanying CD-ROM
• detailed Instructor’s Manual with Test Bank

Updated to reflect developing case law interpreting the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) and other changes in Bankruptcy Law, the Seventh Edition also provides:

• two new chapters devoted entirely to means testing: one chapter presents a substantive discussion of means testing and the second chapter gives a tutorial
• Practice Pointers, a new teaching device, are integrated throughout the text
• Practice Exercises are now included throughout the book

Timely and up-to-date, the Seventh Edition of Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals comes with a complete teaching package that will complement the pedagogy, coverage, and clarity of this highly effective text.

• ISBN13: 9781413310696
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