April 28, 2025
The debtors’ inequitable conduct didn’t relieve counsel of the duty to disclose fees charged for post-petition litigation.
3rd Circuit
April 14, 2025
The district judge who excoriated Jackson Walker in a decision last year will now decide whether the firm must disgorge what it was paid in dozens of large chapter 11 cases.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
March 20, 2025
Courts are split on whether chapter 7 trustees can be paid on another theory when the trustee had made no distributions to creditors under Section 326(a).
6th Circuit, Ohio, Ohio Southern District
March 04, 2025
When retention benefits the chapter 11 debtor individually but not the estate, Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Bradley believes that compensation is not subject to approval under Section 330.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Western District
February 05, 2025
Washington, D.C.’s Judge Gunn describes the procedures to employ for approval and operation of an ‘evergreen’ retainer in chapter 11.
D.C. Circuit
January 23, 2025
Long Island’s Judge Grossman warns lawyers that they may be paid nothing if they file chapter 11 cases just to delay a secured creditor, with no legitimate strategy for selling the property, refinancing or confirming a plan.
4th Circuit
January 22, 2025
Delaware district court rules that debtors and trustees alone have standing to propose spending estate money outside of the ‘ordinary course.’
3rd Circuit, Delaware
January 17, 2025
A district court in New Jersey says that a discretionary fee award is neither a bonus nor an enhancement.
3rd Circuit, New Jersey
