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Area of law

Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Helping people and companies that cannot pay their debts.

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What this area covers

Bankruptcy lawyers represent debtors, creditors and trustees when debts outrun the ability to pay. Work ranges from a consumer's fresh start to the reorganization of a large company under court supervision.

Also called: Bankruptcy Law, Creditors' Rights, Insolvency, Restructuring.

Typical legal work

  • Filing consumer and business bankruptcy cases
  • Negotiating reorganization plans
  • Representing creditors and committees

Where lawyers work

  • Law firms of every size
  • Legal aid and public-interest organizations
  • Bankruptcy courts and trustees

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in Bankruptcy & Restructuring. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

7 schools · 5 clinics · 2 externships and field placements

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Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

  1. 1.American Bar Association. Business Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.

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