You may not ordinarily vote in the NACBA elections. Don’t know the candidates, don’t think it’s relevant to your practice, don’t have time.

That’s why each year only 400 of the 3,000 NACBA members vote in the elections.

The result never represents the needs of the members.

This year needs to be different.

Why? Because the future of consumer bankruptcy practice is in your hands. You pay dues to an organization, and it’s important to have that organization reflect your needs.

Without your input, NACBA is nothing more than a waste of space and time.

You need to vote. And to know who gets your vote, you need to be informed.

What do you care about? Lobbying? Technology? Managing your office? Getting NACBA to help you in day-to-day issues with your local judges and trustees? Education?

I have issued a challenge to the candidates.

It’s called “30 Questions.”

Each candidate will choose 10 questions for the other candidate to answer. The members of NACBA will submit an additional 10 questions.

No holds barred, folks. Any serious question is fair game.

I will call each candidate separately and ask the questions. The entire conversation will be recorded and disseminated to the members online via mp3 audio.

To wrap it up, I will ask 10 questions. They will be the following:

1. What is your educational background?

2. How large is your firm or organization?

3. How long have you been a consumer bankruptcy attorney?

4. How many cases do you file on an average month (or year)?

5. Where do you practice law?

6. How long have you been a member of NACBA?

7. What has been your greatest professional achievement thus far in your career?

8. If you were the “King of NACBA” for one day and one day only, answering to no other individual or group for your actions, what is the single thing that you would do to better the organization?

9. Do you believe that the current vetting process for new members is sufficient to protect the interests of the membership?

10. What is the single most important issue confronting the members of NACBA at this time?

Questions submitted by the members will be selected at random, but both candidates will answer the same questions.

Candidates will not be given the questions (except for the above) until they are asked.

The election is important.

Questions should be posed to me by email (bankruptcy [at] gmail.com) Friday, April 11, 2008 at 5:00pm Eastern time.

I will be doing Q&A sessions with each candidate next week, and will post the audio of our conversations shortly thereafter.

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