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Thankful

By Cathy Moran

turkey-504378_1280_optProfessionally, what’s a bankruptcy lawyer thankful for?

  • I’m thankful for experience and a skill set useful to real people with financial problems.
  • I’m thankful for bankruptcy laws, flawed as they are, that allow people to escape debt and focus on the future.
  • I’m thankful for the right to vote for people who might make the laws better and the system more balanced.
  • I’m thankful for an honest judiciary that gives the system integrity.

On a less lofty note, I’m thankful for computers and the internet, which make it possible to represent individuals without carbon paper, adding machines, trips to the clerk’s office, and stacks of books in a library.

I’m thankful as a woman to live in a time and place where my gender isn’t a bar to education and professional contribution.

And, at every level of my being, I’m thankful for a wonderful set of bankruptcy lawyers I count as friends and partners, who share generously and stretch my thinking.

Image courtesy of Pixabay, for whom I am more and more thankful.

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About Cathy Moran

I'm a veteran bankruptcy lawyer and consumer advocate in California's Silicon Valley. I write, teach, and speak in the hopes of expanding understanding of how bankruptcy can make life better in a family's future.

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You’ve arrived at the Bankruptcy Soapbox, a resource of bankruptcy information and consumer law.

Soapbox is a companion site to Bankruptcy in Brief, where I try to be largely explanatory and even handed (Note I said “try”).

Here, I allow myself to tell stories and express strong opinions. We dig deeper into how to consider bankruptcy and navigate a bankruptcy case.

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