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OVERSECURED CREDITORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO RECOVER ATTORNEYS’ FEES, ACCORDING TO NEW ABI POLL

September 15, 2006, Alexandria, Va. —The majority of respondents (62 percent) in a recent American Bankruptcy Institute online poll disagreed that oversecured creditors should not be able to recover attorneys’ fees. Responding to the statement “Oversecured creditors may not recover attorneys’ fees,” 48 percent of participants “disagreed strongly,” while 14 percent “somewhat disagreed.”

Conversely, 31 percent agreed that oversecured creditors should not be able to recover attorneys’ fees. Twenty-three percent of respondents “strongly agreed,” while 8 percent “agreed somewhat” that oversecured creditors could not recover attorneys’ fees. Seven percent of the respondents did not know or had no opinion on the issue.

ABI members and members of the public were welcome to participate in latest ABI Quick Poll that was open for voting from Sept. 8-14.

ABI’s weekly Quick Poll is posted on ABI’s home page, www.abiworld.org. ABI members and the public are invited to respond to a question on a timely bankruptcy or insolvency issue. Visit http://www.abiworld.net/quickpoll/ to access the results of previous ABI Quick Polls.

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