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Saturday September 26, 2026
(Note the new date)
11th Annual James T. King Bankruptcy Symposium
Discharging Student Loans Under the DOJ Guidance:
Cost-Effective Ways to Provide Your Clients a Fresh Start
11:00am to 1:00pm
by Zoom Meeting
Speakers:
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Prof. Dalie Jimenez, U.C. Irvine School of Law
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Joshua Cohen, Cohen Consumer Law, St. Albans, VT
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Hon. Magdalena Reyes Bordeaux, Central District of California
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M. Jonathan Hayes, RHM LAW LLP, Moderator
Our distinguished guests are nationally recognized experts in the area of student loans. They will discuss the DOJ Guidance at some length and suggest strategies that can be used in a cost-effective way to discharge all or some portion of your clients' student loans. They will be happy to answer your questions as we have time.
Dalié Jiménez is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where directs the Student Loan Law Initiative and is co-principal investigator at the Princeton Debt Collection Lab and the Financial Distress Research Project. Her research and teaching focus on debt, student loans, consumer law, bankruptcy, and access to justice.
An elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Jiménez is also a fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation. She served on the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy and helped draft the proposed Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2020.
Before joining academia, Jiménez was a founding staffer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she contributed to policy work on debt collection, debt relief, credit reporting, and student loan issues. She has testified several times before committees in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on debt-related issues.
Born in Cuba, Professor Jiménez emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. She is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and holds dual B.S. degrees in electrical engineering/computer science and political science from MIT.
Josh Cohen His national practice helps students maneuver the rocky terrain of student loans, including understanding how to get loans out of default, how to obtain affordable payment plans, defending student loan collection lawsuits, bringing affirmative claims for violation of student loan law, and discharging loans through bankruptcy adversary proceedings. To date, he has successfully discharged over $5M in student loans through bankruptcy.
In addition to helping borrowers, Josh also helps attorneys. His Student Loan Law
Workshop, a 2-day intensive workshop teaching attorneys how to incorporate student loan law into their existing practice, is now in its 15th year. Josh is also the creator of software that helps attorneys better prepare and counsel clients regarding their student loans, found at www.studentloantoolbox.net.
The Honorable Magdalena Reyes Bordeaux is a bankruptcy judge for the Central District of California, Riverside Division. Prior to her appointment, she managed Public Counsel’s Debtor Assistance Project and was an elected member of the Ninth Circuit Conference Executive Committee. She also was an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School and has written numerous articles on bankruptcy and bankruptcy related issues. She is a graduate of UCLA School of Law, where she received her J.D and was managing editor of the UCLA Journal of Law & Technology.
This program qualifies for 2.0 hours of CLE credit (1.0 hour for each session attended) including Bankruptcy Specialization credit. The materials will be provided to all attendees by email prior to the program. MCLE certificates will be provided after the program.
Members must register to attend
(If you registered previously, you need not register again)
Cost to attend:
- Free to cdcbaa members - included in annual membership fee (see below)
- Judges - no charge
- Judicial staff - no charge
- Government and public-interest employees and members of co-sponsoring organizations - $50
- Law students - $50
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All others for this program - $75 (The payment will be applied to this year's annual membership fee if you decide to join cdcbaa after the program)
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