Creditors' Rights and Consumer Bankruptcy

Farleigh Wada Witt's team of creditors' rights lawyers bring over 50 years of combined experience and substantial expertise in protecting clients' interests in all facets of insolvency, bankruptcy and debtor/creditor related litigation and transactions. We provide clients top-quality representation with small-firm economics and commitment. Our aim is to provide clients with cost-effective representation, which we recognize leads to greater client satisfaction.

• Collections and Foreclosures
• Consumer Bankruptcy

Consumer Collections, Commercial Collections, and Foreclosures

Our highly skilled team of lawyers and legal assistants have created systems for the handling of commercial and consumer loan collections and foreclosures in Oregon and Washington to represent our clients' interests efficiently and economically. Our collections and foreclosures services include:

• Non-judicial and judicial real estate foreclosures
• Pre-judgment and post-judgment executions, garnishments, and provisional process actions
• Collection and replevin actions
• Contract forfeitures
• Construction lien foreclosures
• Lien stripping/avoidance actions

Consumer Bankruptcy

We have extensive experience in representing lending/credit institutions in chapter 7 and 13 proceedings, as well as individual debtors in chapter 11 reorganizations. Our consumer bankruptcy services include:

• Relief from the automatic stay
• Dischargeability litigation
• Chapter 13 litigation
• Preference litigation
• Reaffirmation agreements
• Relief from the automatic stay violations litigation

Our creditors' rights lawyers are frequent speakers at local and national programs and have written a number of articles and other materials for legal publications on various debtor-creditor topics including real estate foreclosures, bankruptcy, UCC priority issues, commercial evictions and provisional process remedies, and collections of judgments. We have played a leading role in the development of the Pro Bono Project for the Oregon State Bar Debtor-Creditor Section, and continue to be instrumental in its operation.