Rochelle's Daily Wire

ABI Exclusive

May 16, 2022

Special counsel unfamiliar with bankruptcy procedures weren’t excused from the requirement to file a final fee application by the deadline.

April 30, 2022

Being seen at bar events in the company of those who appear in court doesn’t show judicial bias.

April 20, 2022

At oral argument, the justices seemed more concerned about the remedy to give if the dual fee system was unconstitutional.

April 1, 2022

Submitting a retention order with the wrong word resulted in a pivotal issue on appeal.

March 22, 2022

Reversing the bankruptcy court, the district court decided that a local rule did not bar bifurcated fee arrangements altogether.

March 3, 2022

No more informal ‘no-look’ fees in the courtroom of Bankruptcy Judge Robert Grossman.

February 15, 2022

District judge in Idaho finds no ambiguity in a statute that doesn’t explicitly say whether a chapter 13 trustee is paid if the case is dismissed before confirmation.

February 3, 2022

A successful outcome does not entitle an attorney to be paid for performing administrative services delegated to the trustee.

January 28, 2022

A chapter 13 trustee is not a federal employee for the purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act.

January 20, 2022

On an issue the Supreme Court will decide this spring, the Eleventh Circuit broke the tie among the circuits by finding no unconstitutional lack of uniformity when the 2018 increase in U.S. Trustee fees was not immediately applicable in two states with Bankruptcy Administrators.