{"id":693,"date":"2009-07-08T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/?p=693"},"modified":"2009-07-08T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:33:04","slug":"pro-se-bankruptcies-drain-court-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2009\/07\/08\/pro-se-bankruptcies-drain-court-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro se bankruptcies drain court resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And another news item from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wislawjournal.com\/article.cfm\/2009\/07\/06\/Pro-se-bankruptcies-drain-court-resources\">Wisconsin Law Journal:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"content\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">As recession-related bankruptcy filings rise, courts are dealing not only with larger caseloads but also more time-consuming case filings. An increase in pro se litigants leads to a bigger drain on court resources, as well as bigger challenges for trustees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">Since the economic crisis began, Andrew N. Herbach has seen a steady increase in traffic at the Pro Se Help Desk for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">\u201cWe\u2019re overwhelmed right now. It used to be that we\u2019d get seven people that came in, and now it\u2019s double-plus every week,\u201d said Herbach, who practices with Howard Solochek &amp; Weber SC in Milwaukee. Herbach was involved in developing the help desk in response to a request from a bankruptcy judge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">Filings are up around the state, although not quite as much as in the Milwaukee area, where records show a 30-percent increase in Eastern District Court bankruptcy filings from last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mainbody\">Follow the link for the whole story.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another news item from the Wisconsin Law Journal: As recession-related bankruptcy filings rise, courts are dealing not only with larger caseloads but also more time-consuming case filings. An increase in pro se litigants leads to a bigger drain on court resources, as well as bigger challenges for trustees. Since the economic crisis began, Andrew [&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-693","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\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}