Credit Slips is pleased to welcome David Yen as a guest blogger this week. Yen is the bankruptcy supervisory attorney for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago.Yen has worked for legal services programs and represented low-income clients in New York, Alabama, and Illinois. In 1992, he received an Equal Justice Award for his creativity in use of bankruptcy to help low-income clients. Put simply, the world needs more lawyers like David Yen.

The Credit Slips regulars came to know Yen through his always insightful posts on the Bankr-L listserv, and we knew he could add ideas to this site that we do not normally voice. Yen has an "in the trenches" perspective to what is happening with the bankruptcy law and with low-income consumers more generally. We are honored to have him join us and share his thoughts.