Julie E. Furman Stodolka

E-mail Attorney: jstodolka@oshkoshlawyers.com

            Ms. Stodolka’s entire professional experience has been in insolvency.  She worked in the Bankruptcy Department of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in San Diego before clerking for three years for the Honorable Joseph W. Hedrick Jr., in the Modesto Division of the Eastern District of California from 1988 - 1991. 

            In 1991 she became an Associate member of the Bankruptcy Department of Allen, Polgar, Proietti & Fagalde in Merced, California.  Her specialty was representation of Trustees including several hotly contested Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 Trustee/Liquidating Agent cases.  In 1995, Ms. Stodolka opened her own office in Merced, California representing Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 debtors, preference defendants and a Creditors Committee in a difficult Chapter 11 reorganization.

            She relocated to Wisconsin in 2006 and represented Chapter 11 debtors and creditors as an Associate of Kerkman & Dunn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2006 through 2008. Ms. Stodolka currently represents debtors in Chapter 11 reorganizations, Chapter 12 farm reorganizations, Chapter 7 liquidations and Chapter 13 repayment plans. 

Areas of Practice:

Consumer Bankruptcy
Business Bankruptcy
Financial Reorganization
Restructuring
Receiverships

Bar Admissions:

State Bar of California, 1987 (currently inactive)
State Bar of Wisconsin, 2006
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin,
United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin,

Education:

Cornell University, A.B., 1971 (Phi Beta Kappa)
UC Berkeley, Master's Degree in History, 1973
UCLA Law School, J.D., 1987

Community Activities:   A published poet, Ms. Stodolka also sings in community choirs and  publishes a small blog discussing culture, politics and, of course, the weather.