Displaying with Topic Ethics

Lawyers can’t be reimbursed for advancing filing fees through fee applications or ‘no-look’ fees.

Third Circuit gives immunity to a trustee for unilateral action protecting estate property.

Several cases are in the running for Supreme Court review this term or next.

Baker Botts v. ASARCO doesn’t prohibit retention agreements allowing fees for defense of fees, judge holds.

Eleventh Circuit inveighs against harming innocent creditors by invoking judicial estoppel.

Philadelphia judge socks the city’s parking authority for impounding a debtor’s car twice.

Third party liability for attorneys’ fees can leave debtor’s counsel in a worse position following nonpayment.

The statute is tolled only if the creditors’ committee is denied standing to sue.

A settlement prompts the high court to ditch a case deciding whether state or federal law governs recharacterization.

Two years in jail and $1,000 in daily fines are ok as civil contempt sanctions.