In an ideal world, collectors would cease all contact with a debtor as soon as they are informed that the debtor has employed representation. The choose, who declined to be interviewed or photographed for this story, was a chapter lawyer for practically 20 years earlier than being appointed to his current position in 2002 by the federal appeals courtroom in New York. For the past decade, his courtroom has been in White Plains, the place he is the only bankruptcy decide handling huge enterprise instances.

Mr. Larkin is a California licensed lawyer providing companies throughout San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. A 1998 graduate of California State College, San Bernardino, Mr. Larkin earned his Juris Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson Faculty of Law in 2002. Since that time, Mr. Larkin has targeted solely on bankruptcy and insolvency associated matters, and has authored dozens of articles concerning bankruptcy and other …