Jim Haller
Client Services
In 1989 Jim received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota. He went on to receive his Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law in 1993.
In 2017 Jim served as President of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, the largest bar association for consumer bankruptcy attorneys in the United States. He serves as a committee member on the American Bankruptcy Institute Consumer Commission to suggest changes to the Bankruptcy Law to Congress and the Judiciary. Jim also served on the standing Rules Committee for the Bankruptcy Court of Southern District of Illinois and co-founded the local bankruptcy bar association (BASIL) in 2004.
Jim has served as a panelist for several organizations including ABI, NACBA, the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees (NACTT), the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Illinois Housing in Action, the Illinois Attorney General’s office, and the Land of Lincoln Legal Services.
Jim has successfully represented clients from state court to the United States Supreme Court. He is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the 7th and 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, and in the states of Illinois and Missouri. Practice limited to consumer and business debtor bankruptcy in the states of Illinois and Missouri since 1993.
1989 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, B.A. in Political Science from
1993 Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Juris Doctor
-James J. Haller, Supreme Court Cases Every Bankruptcy Attorney Should Know-Part Two, Consumer Bankruptcy Journal, Summer 2021.
-James J. Haller, Supreme Court Cases Every Bankruptcy Attorney Should Know, Consumer Bankruptcy Journal, Winter 2020.
-James J. Haller, When Bankruptcy Intersects with Criminal Law, Consumer Bankruptcy Journal, Winter 2020.
-James J. Haller, Bankruptcy Courts are Divided on the Definition of a "Timely" Filing of Creditor Matrix Under Rule 3002(c)(6)(A), Consumer Bankruptcy Journal, Fall 2020.
-James J. Haller, Dude! Do I Still Have To Pay For My Car...Post-Confirmation?, Consumer Bankruptcy Journal, Fall 2020.
-James J. Haller, Reimbursement of Advances for Pre-Petition Fees and Costs in a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Consumer Bankruptcy Journal, 30, Winter 2018.
-James J. Haller, Disclosure of Post-Petition Claims in a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Consumer Bankruptcy Journal, 20, Winter 2018.
- James J. Haller and Orlando Velazquez, How to File a Late Claim in a Chapter 13 Case, XXXVI ABI Journal 4,
50, 110, April 2017.
-James J. Haller and Tara Twomey, Debt Collectors Should Not Get a Free Pass in Bankruptcy, XXXIV ABI
Journal 11, 30-31, 71 (November 2015).
-James J. Haller, Creativity Alive in Chapter 13 Plans after Espinosa, XXX ABI Journal 3, 40, 94 (April 2011).
-James J. Haller, Rachel A. Hill, William A. Mueller, Chapter One: Getting a Consumer Bankruptcy Started in
Consumer Bankruptcy Practice, 1-1 to 1-36 (IICLE, 2011).
-James J. Haller & William A. Mueller, The New Bankruptcy Law: A Consumer Lawyer’s Guide, 93 Ill.B.J. 9, 454-
460 (2005).
-James J. Haller, What Till vs. SCS Credit Corp. Means for Your Chapter 13 Clients, 92 Ill.B.J. 9, 478-482 (2004).