Michael P. Richman

In Madison, Wisconsin, Michael P. Richman is an attorney for Steinhilber Swanson LLP and handles cases involving chapter 11 debtors and creditors’ committees, financial distress and bankruptcy, out-of-court restructurings, prosecution and defense of creditors’ rights litigation, fraudulent conveyance, individual and group secured and unsecured creditors, landlords and purchasers of assets under Bankruptcy Code section 363. He has experience in federal and state courts throughout 20 different territories and states.

Mr. Richman is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the State Bar of Wisconsin. An adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, he was named an Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer in 2004 by Turnarounds & Workouts.

In 1975, Mr. Richman earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science, graduating cum laude from Vassar College. He then attended Columbia Law School where he obtained a Juris Doctor in 1979 and was managing editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. During law school, he earned the David M. Berger Memorial Prize and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Admitted to practice in Wisconsin, New York and the District of Columbia, Mr. Richman is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th Circuits.

Mr. Richman is a debt relief agent. He helps people file for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code.