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When I describe myself as a country lawyer, most of my friends and family laugh. Yes, I have a specialty in business bankruptcy law, and yes, I am a professor of consumer and business bankruptcy law, and yes, I have practiced all aspects of bankruptcy law for three decades. But the description remains apt.  The […]

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I admit it:  I loved law school.  Yes, I am one of those people who relished the Socratic method, the demanding professors and the seemingly-endless reading.  I knew from my first law school class that I had found my passion. That was thirty-four years ago, at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon.  Now, […]

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There are many benefits to exposure to law students.  The use of technology in the classroom is unsurprisingly ubiquitous.  I have become accustomed to having a discussion of current events cross-chec ked against a real time search on the internet for up to the moment verification.   Books are practically relics; if statutes and cases are […]