* Mr. Haeger is board certified as a specialist in Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification. Mr. Haeger also is one of a select few to be designated as a “Super Lawyer” in the area of bankruptcy law in Maryland and Washington, D.C. by Baltimore Magazine, Maryland Super Lawyer, and Washington D.C. Super Lawyer.
* Mr. Haeger has very impressive academic credentials, having received his Bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980, where he was also honored by his election to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Haeger received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1983, where he was honored as the recipient of the Prentice-Hall Student Award in Taxation and the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitution Law in his first year of law school, and, upon his graduation, he received the U.S. Law Week Award and he was elected to membership in the McAuliffe Honor Society.
* Mr. Haeger practices primarily in the areas of bankruptcy law and consumer protection litigation, with particular emphasis on cases arising under the Bankruptcy Code, the Federal Truth in Lending Act (TILA), and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA). For a detailed description of the services offered by Mr. Haeger, please visit the Practice Areas page of his website, www.haegerlaw.com.
* Mr. Haeger is a proud graduate of Max Gardner’s Bankruptcy Boot Camp (2006), an intensive four-day program for bankruptcy practitioners that arms its graduates with Max Gardner’s secrets for success in defeating the unjust and powerful, such as bottom feeding debt buyers and the all-too-corrupt mortgage industry (you know, the one that nearly destroyed the world in 2008). All graduates of Max’s Bankruptcy Bootcamp are members of a vibrant network of similarly minded consumer advocates who share their experiences with each other every day on the internet, including their daily discoveries of creditor misbehavior, enabling each member to fight effectively against their client’s well heeled and secretive corporate adversaries.
* Mr. Haeger also is proud member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA), the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA), the American Bar Association (ABA), and the Consumer Bankruptcy Committee of the Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA). In order to stay on the cutting edge of consumer and bankruptcy advocacy, Mr. Haeger regularly attends the continuing legal education programs offered by NACBA, NACA, and MSBA.
* Mr. Haeger is admitted to practice law in the States of California (inactive) and Maryland, and to the California Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also is a member of the Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland, the State Bar of California, and the Bankruptcy Bar Association of Maryland (BBA-Md.).