Ms. Monette W. Cope

Monette W. Cope is an attorney with Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA in Chicago, where she practices exclusively in bankruptcy. She represents banks, financial service organizations and student lenders in Illinois, Wisconsin and bankruptcy courts nationwide in matters involving chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13.Ms. Cope has more than 30 years of experience and began her career in bankruptcy as a staff attorney for a chapter 13 trustee. She is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and a member of ABI and the ChicagoBar Association, and she is a former president of the Credit Education Coalition, former secretary of theCreditor?s Attorney Association and a current board member of Chicago Financial Women. Ms. Cope is admitted to practice in Illinois, Maine and Ohio, and before the U.S. District Courts for the Central,Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois, the Western District of Michigan, the Eastern District ofMissouri, the Southern District of Ohio, and the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin. She received her B.A. cum laude in English in 1979 from The Ohio State University and her J.D. in 1988 fromThe Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.