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Everything you need to file your first case, a great introduction for those starting a bankruptcy practice, and an essential resource for paralegals under an attorney's supervision: • What you need to know about attorney responsibilities and counseling debtors • How to complete the initial forms; instructions for every stage of a bankruptcy; model pleadings; client questionnaire and handouts; and more • Key bankruptcy concepts and overviews of chapters 7 and 13 Companion website updated for 2013 • Software to compute key look-back dates • Scores of sample pleadings in Word format • Other tools to handle a chapter 7 or 13 case "By far the best book for volunteer attorneys and other lawyers taking on their first bankruptcy and also for those building a successful consumer practice." -- Joanna Allison, Esq., Coordinator, Bankruptcy Assistance Project, Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Assn.