Rita Kostopoulos
Rita Kostopoulos is the founder of Kostopoulos & Associates PLLC in Warren, Mich., after first founding the Kostopoulos Law Group PC in Oakland, Calif., in 2013 after taking the bar exam in California in 2012. She has filed more than 9,000 bankruptcy cases and represents primarily debtors in chapter 7 and chapter 13 cases. Ms. Kostopoulos was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 2001 and to the State Bar of California in 2012. She is a member of ABI, NACBA, State Bar of California, State Bar of Michigan, the San Francisco Bar Association and the Alameda County Bar Association, and she is admitted<br>to to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Eastern District of Michigan and Western District of Michigan, and the US District Court of Colorado. Ms. Kostopoulos clerked for Hon James Biernat Sr. of the Macomb County Circuit Court from 2000-01. She also holds a real estate brokers license and runs a real estate investment firm as well as a multi-state consumer-<br>lending business. Ms. Kostopoulos is Board Certified in Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification. She received her B.S.B.A. in management cum laude in 1998 from Wayne State University and her J.D. from Wayne State University School of Law in 2001.