Professor Robert Lawless, bankruptcy expert and author of the 2012 study "Race, Attorney Influence and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice," talks with American Bankruptcy Institute about the findings of racially disparate uses of chapter 13 bankruptcy.
Lawless presented an update of the study's findings in October at the 2016 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Annual Meeting, revealing that race continues to be a factor in the chapter choice for debtors, sometimes to their financial detriment, in certain parts of the country.
Podcast at ABI.org