Bankruptcy

Information coming soon.

WI, Jan 1981
Bar Number: 1019166

Western District of Wisconsin, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Wisconsin State Courts.

State Bar of Wisconsin, Western District Bankruptcy Bar, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, and National Lawyers' Guild.

I always exceed the 15 hour annual requirement, especially this year.

• Attending annual bankruptcy updates and day and a half "retreat" in Eastern Wisconsin.
• Attending National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys' conference.
• Teaching courses for Legal Action of Wisconsin and Western District Bankruptcy Bar.
• Attending Western District Bankruptcy Bar meetings and Legal Association for Women and Dane County Bar meetings.

Not on legal topics; I had an editorial on health care reform in the daily paper last year, and wrote articles on fishing rights and the effects of timber harvest and fishery management, reproductive rights, and treaty rights. I also wrote a handbook and forms for people representing themselves in divorces.

Cardinal Stritch University v. Stefanie Kuehn: Sued university for holding former student's transcripts for unpaid tuition; got finding of contempt, damages and attorneys' fees from the Bankruptcy Court, District Court and 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Have assisted numerous clients is keeping their homes through Chapter 13 reorganizations and helped with some mortgage modifications while in Chapter 13 (and less frequently, Chapter 7); last divorce case was resolved through binding arbitration using retired circuit court judge to arbitrate maintenance and property division issues.

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We focus on consumer bankruptcy, representing cooperatives, police and fire commissions, tenant, real estate and housing law including fair housing, estate planning, family law, small business and nonprofit businesses.

The firm was established in 1973 by Scott Herrick and Robert Gruber. I joined the firm in 2006 after working at the King Street Law Collective and in other private practice settings for 25 years (more detail is available on the website). It is located in the historic Churchill Building (formerly known as "the Gay Building") on the Capitol Square in Madison.

I have been engaged in private practice since graduating from law school. I had my own law office from 1981 to 1985, then joined the King Street Law Collective in Madison where I was an attorney/collective member from 1985 to 2002 when that office closed. That firm had an emphasis on self-help legal advice and I practiced primarily family law and bankruptcy there. I again had my own practice in Madison and commuted to Janesville Wisconsin where I worked with Baner & Associates half of the time (a high volume bankruptcy practice in Rock County) from 2003 to 2006 when I joined Herrick & Kasdorf. I have reduced my family law caseload in the last year due to the high demand for bankruptcy representation and the increased work required by the bankruptcy reform law and the foreclosure/loan modification aspect of the current economic climate.

• Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney of the Month - September 2009
• National Association of Bankruptcy Attorneys
• Lecturer at Legal Association of Wisconsin Volunteer Lawyers training on Bankruptcy and Divorce - November 2009
• Lecturer at Western District of Wisconsin Bankruptcy Bar on Student Loans and Stay Violations - November 2009
• Presenter at Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Mortgage Modification seminar - August 2009

Thuy Nguyen

(608) 250-4370

Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Yes

Spanish and Vietnamese.

Yes. My bankruptcies are flat fees and vary from $1,100 to $2,700 depending on type of bankruptcy and complexity of the case (e.g. involving real estate, number of creditors, above-median income, etc.). Divorces are hourly fees.

$150 to $200.

Yes; for bankruptcies. One hour.

For divorce $1,500 or more.