{"id":690,"date":"2009-07-08T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/?p=690"},"modified":"2009-07-08T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:25:07","slug":"no-appointed-counsel-for-pro-se-bankruptcy-filer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2009\/07\/08\/no-appointed-counsel-for-pro-se-bankruptcy-filer\/","title":{"rendered":"No appointed counsel for Pro Se bankruptcy filer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wislawjournal.com\/article.cfm\/2009\/07\/06\/Appointment-of-counsel-is-not-the-answer\">From the Wisconsin Law Journal:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">Pro se bankruptcy filers may be a drain on court resources, but judges won\u2019t be trying to mitigate the problem by appointing attorneys to represent them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">A June 24 opinion by U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Margaret Dee McGarity denied a debtor\u2019s request for appointment of counsel pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1915 (e)(1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">\n<p class=\"mainbody\">While some of the court\u2019s reasoning is limited to the particular debtor, most of it would apply to all pro se debtors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">Follow the link for the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wisconsin Law Journal: Pro se bankruptcy filers may be a drain on court resources, but judges won\u2019t be trying to mitigate the problem by appointing attorneys to represent them. A June 24 opinion by U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Margaret Dee McGarity denied a debtor\u2019s request for appointment of counsel pursuant to 28 U.S.C. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}