Welcome to the Seattle Debt Law Blog! With the mortgage and credit crisis coming to dominate news headlines, I’ve decided to start this blog to help educate consumers in the Seattle area and around the nation about the fundamentals of bankruptcy and debt law and how it affects us all.

My name is Christina Latta. I am an attorney specializing in bankruptcy and consumer law practicing in Seattle, Washington. I have a BA from Dartmouth College and a JD from Boston College Law School, and I spent 2 years as a law clerk for a bankruptcy judge in Fresno, California before going into private practice. I spent another 2 years representing mortgage lenders in bankruptcy court before “switching sides” and working for debtors exclusively, which I’ve done since 2004. My experience on both sides of the aisle has given me a useful understanding of the bankruptcy system and the way creditors and debtors resolve their differences under the law.

In the coming weeks and months I hope to use this platform to discuss current topics, legal trends and issues of interest, new legislation affecting mortgages and other debt, cases of interest coming before the court, and other important developments. The legal system can be a bit intimidating and scary to people who’ve never had to deal with it before, so I’d also like to help demystify it a bit by explaining how it works, and about the options that are open to debtors facing foreclosure, harassment by creditors, mortgage troubles, and so on. Stick around and see how it develops.