How To Find A Bankruptcy Lawyer

My name is Martin Meenath from City Tutors Limited and I am a non-practicing barrister, lecturer and a tutor. These days, a great many people are worried about bankruptcy. And you compound to worry by wondering about how to find a lawyer.

The law society will be able to tell you which law is qualified to give advice. They have an extensive website which is full of details about those solicitors who practice in this area. If you're coming near bankruptcy and you don't think you have the money to engage a lawyer, then you should consult the Citizens Advice Bureau in your area, who will be able to direct you to cheaper lawyers and also to other sources of information.

If you do have the money, the law society, the solicitor's 500 contained in the chamber's directories and in the legal 500 directories are more than appropriate places to start looking. Remember, bankruptcy is only one of a number of ways of dealing with that and many websites and consumer advisory organizations can tell you about individual voluntary agreements and indeed, your own bank might be able to tell you about ways to manage that and to consolidate them. Don't take precipitate action and be very careful about consolidating, that's before you receive legal advice.

Remember, if you do seek professional advice and you are for instance, running a company, your advice about bankruptcy might also run into advice about the nature of your rent, about commercial tenancies, and what duties precisely you and guarantors owe to directors. It's good advice to take legal advice. But if you try to do it on your own, be very careful to consult the Citizens Advice Bureau, too.

So just to summarize, your first port of call should be the law society website, and if you don't like using websites or your broadband connection isn't good enough, you can telephone the law society too. They have helpful people on standby who will be able to talk to you. .