Bankruptcy Training for Teachers
Summers, evenings, and school breaks — turned into professional per-project income instead of another tutoring gig.
Teachers are handed the same short list of side incomes every year: tutoring, summer school, selling lesson plans — all of it more teaching, at teaching rates. Bankruptcy petition drafting is a genuinely different option: skilled, quiet, work-from-home document work that bills per petition, not per hour, for clients outside the education economy entirely.
The fit is better than it first sounds. Teaching runs on the exact habits petition work demands: meticulous documentation, hard deadlines, juggling detailed records for dozens of people at once, and following precise regulatory requirements. Attorneys prize those habits — and the school calendar hands you a built-in busy season: summer.
The training is self-paced video — start it over a break, finish it in found hours — and covers every form and schedule of the Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 petition, with certification as a Bankruptcy Petition Specialist™ included.
Who This Training Is For
- ✓Teachers who want summer and school-break income at professional rates
- ✓Educators supplementing a salary that hasn't kept up — without taking on more teaching
- ✓Teachers considering an eventual off-ramp from the classroom who want a portable skill ready first
- ✓Retired teachers who want flexible, detail-driven work from home
No prior legal or bankruptcy experience is required. All materials are downloadable or accessed online — you can start training today.
Why not just tutor?
Tutoring pays hourly, happens on evenings and weekends when families are available, and is still teaching — the same energy you just spent all day. Petition drafting is asynchronous desk work you do whenever suits you, billed per completed project at rates set by the legal market rather than the local tutoring market. For the summer especially, a handful of petitions can outearn a season of tutoring blocks — without a single scheduled appointment.
What's Inside the Training
Everything you need to draft accurate, court-ready Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 petitions.
Chapter 7 and 13 Training Videos
More than two dozen high-definition, over-the-shoulder video lessons walking you through every form, schedule, and section of both the Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 petition.
Hands-On Training Workbook
Draft your first bankruptcy petition using de-identified real client information, then compare your work against the fully completed petition. Developed by a Certified Bankruptcy Petition Specialist™.
Chapter 7 and 13 Certification
One registration for each of the Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Petition Specialist™ certification exams is included with enrollment — a credential that verifies your skill to attorneys nationwide.
Plus These Valuable Bonuses
Included with your enrollment — resources that accelerate your launch and grow your income.
- ✓The Complete Guide to Starting a Bankruptcy Docs Service — 600+ pages covering every step from day one to your first paying client.
- ✓100+ Bankruptcy Motions, Pleadings, Letters, and Affidavits — Ready-to-use legal documents — you'd pay $30,000+ for a firm to draft these.
- ✓130+ Bankruptcy Petition Training Collection — Real, filed Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 petitions ready to study and import into Best Case.
- ✓Bankruptcy Attorney Marketing List — Over 2,400 bankruptcy attorneys — skip the guesswork of finding prospects.
- ✓Business Plan and Marketing Materials — The actual business plan a student used to build a six-figure business in year one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I realistically do this only in summers and breaks?＋
Do teaching skills really transfer?＋
Do I need any legal background?＋
Could this become more than a side income?＋
How long does it take to complete?＋
What software do I need?＋
We are a bankruptcy petition training organization and do not develop, sell, or provide bankruptcy petition preparation software.
For many years, our training programs have taught students how to draft bankruptcy petitions using the free downloadable demo version of Best Case Bankruptcy software by Stretto, one of the most widely used bankruptcy petition preparation platforms among bankruptcy law firms. We are not affiliated with Stretto and do not receive compensation from them.
Stretto now also offers a cloud-based version of Best Case Bankruptcy that runs through a web browser. While the cloud edition is convenient because it can run in a web browser on any computer operating system, it includes a limited free trial period, whereas the traditional desktop edition, which installs on a Windows computer (or can run on a Mac computer using software such as Parallels), continues to provide a demo environment for learning purposes for as long as it is installed.
We encourage students to use the desktop edition while completing our training courses so that they can practice drafting the forms, schedules, and other components of a bankruptcy petition in an environment similar to what many bankruptcy law firms use.
Later, when accepting paid work drafting bankruptcy petitions for attorneys, you will use the software that the attorney or law firm is licensed for and uses, which they will provide you access to.
While each major bankruptcy software platform takes a slightly different approach to completing the forms and schedules of a bankruptcy petition, they all complete the same standardized bankruptcy forms and schedules. Our training courses teach you the petition process itself — which applies across all bankruptcy software products.
More questions? Visit our full FAQ page →
Everything You Need — One Price.
No Upsells. No Hidden Fees.
A teacher's precision, paid at legal-industry rates.
After enrolling, you'll complete a brief member agreement, then receive immediate access
to the full course in our private member portal — ready to start the moment you sign in.
Questions? Contact us — we're ready to help.