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Program Description
Safeguard Your Clients’ Interests During a Foreclosure Action

Are you prepared to provide adequate protection, streamline the process and reduce loss for your clients during a foreclosure situation? Don’t take chances! Gain practical procedural pointers on how to assertively protect your clients’ financial interests through an in-depth understanding of the foreclosure process. Enroll today!

Stay up to date on current state and federal initiatives to keep homeowners in their homes and out of foreclosure.
Ensure free and clear title to expedite the foreclosure sale and the distribution of proceeds.
Speed up the process and avoid missing steps using our checklists during foreclosure procedures.
Be able to obtain marketable title when discrepancies in legal descriptions of the land arise.
Avoid foreclosure proceedings: use workout options to save clients time, trouble and money.
Understand how the new bankruptcy rules – and other relevant law updates – impact the foreclosures you’re working on.
Determine if manufactured homes are personal or real property for foreclosure purposes.
Avoid lawsuits arising from inadvertent violations of the FDCPA and RESPA.

Who Should Attend
This basic-to-intermediate level seminar is designed to provide practical and legal solutions to the problems associated with foreclosure for:

Creditor and Debtor Attorneys
Paralegals
Lenders
Title Professionals

Course Content
Foreclosure Avoidance Options
Non-Judicial Foreclosure Procedure
Judicial Foreclosure Procedure
Eviction
Ethical Considerations in Foreclosure
How Do New Bankruptcy Rules Affect Foreclosure?
Continuing Education Credits:

Continuing Legal Education

CLE 6.50 – OR
CLE 6.00 – PA
CLE 6.00 – WA
* denotes specialty credits

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Lara Gardner is the lead attorney in the Vancouver, Washington office of Baxter & Baxter, LLP. She represents consumer debtors in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases.

Lara has been an attorney since 2003, specializing in consumer bankruptcy. Lara was a member of the Oregon State Bar Consumer Law committee for two years. She has spoken at several CLEs on bankruptcy, and has published articles on consumer bankruptcy. She is a member of the Debtor-Creditor section of the Oregon State Bar, and volunteers at the Pro Bono Bankruptcy Clinic.

Baxter & Baxter, LLP’s Vancouver, Washington bankruptcy office, serves Clark County, Cowlitz County, Pacific County, Wahkiakum County, and Skamania County. The Vancouver, Washington bankruptcy lawyers of the Bankruptcy Practice Group represent individuals in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy. The new office is located at:

Baxter & Baxter, LLP
1101 Broadway Street, Suite 213
Vancouver, Washington 98660
Tel. (360) 574-5239
Fax (360) 326-1613

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Lara Gardner of Baxter & Baxter, LLP, lectured to attorneys about bankruptcy in a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar sponsored by Law Review CLE.

The topics Lara lectured on included:

Choosing Which Chapter to file, 7 or 13
Client Interview / Gathering Information
Means Test
Completing the Petition
341 Hearing

For more information about the CLE, including recordings, click here.

Lara Gardner is the lead attorney in the Vancouver, Washington office of Baxter & Baxter, LLP. She represents consumer debtors in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases.

Lara has been an attorney since 2003, specializing in consumer bankruptcy. Lara was a member of the Oregon State Bar Consumer Law committee for two years. She has spoken at several CLEs on bankruptcy, and has published articles on consumer bankruptcy. She is a member of the Debtor-Creditor section of the Oregon State Bar, and volunteers at the Pro Bono Bankruptcy Clinic.

Baxter & Baxter, LLP’s Vancouver, Washington bankruptcy office, serves Clark County, Cowlitz County, Pacific County, Wahkiakum County, and Skamania County. The Vancouver, Washington bankruptcy lawyers of the Bankruptcy Practice Group represent individuals in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy. The new office is located at:

Baxter & Baxter, LLP
1101 Broadway Street, Suite 213
Vancouver, Washington 98660
Tel. (360) 574-5239
Fax (360) 326-1613