Richard Barkasy Presents CLE Seminar “Collections: Seeking and Collecting a Judgment”

Richard A. Barkasy, co-chair of the Firm’s Creditors’ Rights and Business Restructuring Practice Group, presented the CLE seminar “Collections: Seeking and Collecting a Judgment” on May 7, 2012 for the National Business Institute in Dover, Delaware. The seminar provided practical advice and practice pointers from actual practitioners in the field on collections law including:

• clarification on collection procedures and rules;
• preventing delays in proceedings by knowing effective litigation strategies and motion practice;
• avoiding improper service of process so your clients don’t lose their chance to collect;
• effectively navigate the minefield of lien priority conflicts;
• using pre-existing, unrecorded liens to defeat the shield of bankruptcy;
• procedural nuts and bolts of judgment liens and garnishment – and the exemptions that apply;
• traps that trigger liability claims;
• best ways to discover and seize debtor assets;
• how to use fraudulent conveyance claims as a useful tool for settlement; and
• what to do with the judgment when the debtor files for bankruptcy.