The Fourth Circuit held that § 327(a) does not permit former trustees to file post-hoc applications to employ professionals for work done while they were trustees if the case has already been...
In its second opinion of the year arising from contempt orders and sanctions awards against the former CEO of debtor Highland Capital Management, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the Bankruptcy Court's...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a district court's determination that a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in denying fees to a chapter 11 debtor's counsel based...
Joining the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, whose decisions the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois (BC) had followed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
Judge(s):
Thomas Kirsch; Frank Easterbrook; and Diane S. Sykes
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the bankruptcy court's decision awarding fees to the chapter 13 debtor's attorney and modifying the chapter 13 plan to pay the fees, over the objection...
Judge(s):
CLIFTON and SANCHEZ, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN,** District Judge
A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld (2-1) the bankruptcy court's order awarding attorneys' fees to appellee judgment creditor. The majority held that the bankruptcy court properly...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in (a) vacating an order awarding attorney fees to a chapter 7 trustee representing...
A chapter 7 trustee who is their own attorney has the burden of showing why work performed is legal in nature, rather than work typically performed by a chapter 7 trustee, when applying for...
A lawyer is not disqualified from representing a bankruptcy trustee solely because the firm acted as outside general counsel to a company that had been voluntarily dismissed as a defendant from...
A bankruptcy court cannot reduce the amount of fees requested by a debtor's counsel without giving the lawyers notice and an opportunity for hearing if the rationale for the fee reduction is in the...
