The National Consumer Law Center (Boston) has published a Guide to the 2005 Bankruptcy Law. For the 2005 NCLC special supplement, go to www,nclc.org.

To be completely prepared for the 2005 Bankruptcy amendments, may we suggest:

• Buy the NCLC Guide for the law,
  
• Buy Bankruptcy Disk for Microsoft Word, the automated solution, so you are prepared to file petitions,
  
• Join the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys
  

For consumer bankruptcy attorneys, there is no book more useful than Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice, by Henry Sommer and John Rao. This volume analyzes the law, reprints statutes and official forms, and provides practice forms and pointers. Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice is published by the National Consumer Law Center. NCLC's attorneys are recognized as the nation's consumer law experts.

Law Disks is proud to announce that a simplified version of the "Bankruptcy Forms" software has been chosen to be included in Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice as a bonus to those who purchase this book. The intent of this project is that no law office should be deterred from using bankruptcy to save a home simply because it did not have software to produce the bankruptcy petition and schedules. The NCLC has historically stood as counselor and research backup to the many legal aid societies around the USA. Funding cuts have impeded the ability of some of these offices to provide meaningful service. Through this project, several thousand legal aid societies and small law offices have received "Bankruptcy Forms." Our software also comes with the NCLC's revolutionary practice aid, the Consumer Law in a Box CD-ROM.

The philosophy of "Bankruptcy Forms" is to be simple, so that it will not need technical support.

To purchase the book Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice, or the Consumer Law in a Box CD-ROM, please contact the National Consumer Law Center, 77 Summer Street, Boston MA 02108. (Phone: 617-542-9595, Fax: 617-542-8028).

What is the difference between "Bankruptcy Disk" and "Bankruptcy Forms?"

"Bankruptcy Forms" (NCLC Edition) is the simplified program which comes as a bonus with the NCLC Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice manual. The user fills in the data right into the forms themselves. The Word or WordPerfect forms are launched from an Adobe Acrobat interface

"Bankruptcy Disk for Microsoft Word" ($333) is our completely automated software: the program asks you questions, and places your answers right in the schedules for you. It adds the schedules, and makes the creditor mailing list without further typing. Bankruptcy Disk is more efficient, and saves your valuable time. Bankruptcy Disk includes all the forms required by the 2005 amendments, such as the Means Test forms, and helps you with their math. Bankruptcy Disk makes the mailing list for you and the text file as well.

"Bankruptcy Disk" includes bonus pleadings and a Chapter 13 calculator. We do not charge extra for chapter 13, unlike some competitors.

Currently Bankruptcy Disk is available in versions for Microsoft Word 2007, or Word 2003, 2002, 2000.

Law Disks has been publishing bankruptcy software since 1991.