Handling bankruptcy cases was fairly easy for me as I have a tax background (both have as a foundation statutory law). But, I still needed the training. CBAP handled that with fantastic free training seminars. Also, I was assigned a mentor. My mentor not only answered substantive questions, but he walked me through my first case on the nuts and bolts of interviewing clients, to filing out forms, to where I suppose to sit at the 341 hearing.

On top of everything else, I met and talked with Elizabeth Warren and Henry Sommers, both being heavily involved in the program at the time. How great is that to start a legal career?

Regardless, the most rewarding part of volunteering was knowing that I helped people in dire need of help. Many of my clients had to file bankruptcy because of medical bills and, not too surprisingly, once their financial worries were over their health improved.