Christie D. Arkovich

Christie D. Arkovich is an attorney with the Law Offices of Christie D. Arkovich, P.A. in Tampa,Fla., and practices in consumer bankruptcy law, including debt relief, foreclosure defense, creditor harassment, loan modifications, deficiency waivers, short sales and student loans. She is a frequent speaker at various consumer-oriented continuing legal education seminars for ABI, NACA, Westlaw and the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association (TBBBA) on topics such as student loans, creditor harassment and bankruptcy. She also writes a quarterly column for the TBBBA, StudentLoan Sidebar, and regularly contributes videos on the firm’s Youtube Channel, Student Loan Side-bar, about recent student loan-related laws, regulations and developments nationwide. Whenever possible, Ms. Arkovich takes the opportunity to share her knowledge about student loans gained from prior work as trial counsel for Sallie Mae, ECMC and other student loan servicers or guarantors, and from her practice now on the consumer side of things. She recently served on the StudentLoan Committee for the new Student Loan Management Program in the Bankruptcy Court for theMiddle District of Florida and has been the Consumer Chair for CLE for the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association for the past three years. Following law school, Ms. Arkovich interned with the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office and clerked with the Florida Bar. Thereafter, she worked in commercial litigation for three years for private law firms until starting her own consumer practice in 1995. Ms. Arkovich received her B.A. in political science from Stetson University in 1989 and her J.D. cum laude from Stetson University College of Law in 1992, where she was a member of the Stetson Law Review.