Claire Ann Richman (formerly Resop) focuses on commercial and consumer bankruptcy and insolvency matters, and the resolution of business disputes, utilizing her extensive experience as a litigator to manage bankruptcy, and other federal and state law litigation, including contract disputes, debt collection, and real estate.
Claire Ann also serves as a Chapter 7 Trustee, on the panel of trustees appointed by the Office of the United States Trustee for the Western District of Wisconsin. She has had a distinguished career, in which she has been frequently honored. In 2005, she was selected as one of the Top 25 Women Super Lawyers in Wisconsin. She has also been repeatedly honored as a Wisconsin Super Lawyer. She served for six years as a director of the American Bankruptcy Institute (including the Seminars Education Committee) and as chair of the regional American Bankruptcy Institute Central States Advisory Board.
She has held several other leadership positions with the State Bar of Wisconsin Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Creditors’ Rights Section, including chair of its board, and of its annual seminar retreat. She is a Master of the Bench in the American Inns of Court and a Fellow of the Wisconsin Law Foundation. Over her career in bankruptcy, she has represented debtors, trustees, creditors, creditors’ committees, landlords, tenants, investors, been appointed state court receiver, and other parties in interest in the bankruptcy court and state court. She has also argued before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Claire Ann is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy issues and hot topics and has spoken at many conferences, including programs for the United States Trustee Training Program, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the American Conference Institute, the UW Law School Bankruptcy Class, National Association of Credit Managers, News and Credit Collections, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Law School, the National Business Institute, and Lorman Education Services. She is also a published author in the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees Journal. She also serves as President of the Board of the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, which is best known for its annual chamber music festival in Madison.
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122 W. Washington Suite 850 Madison, WI 53703