Rochelle's Daily Wire

Counsel run the risk of being paid lower local rates in ‘mega’ cases filed in the Eastern District of Virginia.

The length and the effects of the pandemic were capable of being ‘anticipated’ and therefore provide no reason for modifying a fixed fee under Section 328(a).

Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane in New York barred a chapter 11 claims agent from selling the claims docket to a claims trader in return for a share of the fees earned by the trader.

In fee allowances, considering ‘results obtained’ survived the 1994 amendments to Section 330(a).

The Tenth Circuit is the first appeals court to rule on remedy after the Supreme Court said that the 2018 increase in U.S. Trustee fees was unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court on June 13 declined to hear two bankruptcy cases in the term to begin next October.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion avoids saying whether the dual system of U.S. Trustees and Bankruptcy Administrators is itself unconstitutional.

Absent an ‘actual conflict,’ disqualification is not automatic, the Third Circuit says.

Local rules require lawyers to prepare and fill all required chapter 7 papers regardless of whether the debtor pays the fee or agrees to pay the fee.

Even if a dischargeability suit is based on a contract, the winner is not entitled to fee-shifting if the court rules on noncontract issues.