A. Rita Kostopoulos is the founder of The Fresh Start Law Firm. Rita was admitted to practice law 2001. Rita’s areas of practice include consumer bankruptcy, business law and real estate law. She has been exlusively practicing bankruptcy law since 2003. In addition, Rita holds a Real Estate Brokers License and is the owner of El Greco Realty LLC.
Rita attended Wayne State University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Degree with a major in Management in May 1998 (“Cum Laude”); and immediately enrolled at Wayne State University School of Law (J.D. recieved in May of 2001). Rita is a former law clerk to the Honorable James Biernat Sr., Macomb County Circuit Court, from 2000-2001.
State Bar of California; admitted to practice in the Northern and Central Districts of California; United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; in the United States District Court, Western District of Michigan; Consumer Bankruptcy Association Member, American Bankruptcy Institute Member, and member of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association as well as various Bay Area trial lawyers associations. In addition, Rita is president of the Hellenic Bar Association, speaks reads and writes Greek fluently.
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Rita Refused to refund me for work that was not done, fabricated and exaggerated “work” such as phone calls that weren’t even received by me. Claiming phone conversations were held for longer periods of time than actual length, claiming a total of 40 mins just to simply run my credit card for a charge. She’s claiming time on the most bogus things just to be able to charge me by the hour for work that was never done in order to keep my payments. I was told my payments were protected until they were completed to start my file and months later they decided to write up a complete false accounting sheet.