A bankruptcy lawyers primary focus is to assist clients through court proceedings to reduce or eliminate debt or to proceed forward with bankruptcy. A bankruptcy lawyers clients may be individuals or corporations. They may represent individual or corporate debtors, individual or corporate creditors, creditors committees, and bankruptcy trustees. Work hours are long and meetings with clients frequently occur in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate their clients schedule. Various environments serve as the bankruptcy lawyers workplace- from offices to courtrooms to law libraries.