{"id":1116,"date":"2017-07-06T14:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=2596"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:33:08","slug":"bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-jd-students\/explore-legal-careers\/practice-areas\/bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bankruptcy lawyers represent individual and corporate creditors and debtors in financial restructurings, workouts, bankruptcy cases and other matters involving financially distressed transactions.<\/p>\n<h2>Web Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"http:\/\/www.abiworld.org\/AM\/Template.cfm?Section=Home|\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abi.org\/\">American Bankruptcy Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/firsthand.co\/careers\/rankings\">VAULT Guide to Bankruptcy Careers<\/a> (enter password, and search for Bankruptcy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Representative Employers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"http:\/\/www.responsiblelending.org\/|\" href=\"http:\/\/www.responsiblelending.org\/\">Center for Responsible Lending<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/|\" href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/\">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau<\/a>\u00a0(CFPB)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chambers.com\/legal-rankings\/bankruptcy-restructuring-usa-nationwide-5:513:12788:1\">Chambers Top-ranked\u00a0Bankruptcy law firms<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bankruptcy lawyers represent individual and corporate creditors and debtors in financial restructurings, workouts, bankruptcy cases and other matters involving financially distressed transactions. Web Resources American Bankruptcy Institute VAULT Guide to Bankruptcy Careers (enter password, and search for Bankruptcy) Representative Employers Center for Responsible Lending Consumer Financial Protection Bureau\u00a0(CFPB) Chambers Top-ranked\u00a0Bankruptcy law firms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":745,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36119,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116\/revisions\/36119"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}