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Bankruptcy, W.H. Drake Jr., Christopher S. Strickland
Bankruptcy, W.H. Drake Jr., Christopher S. Strickland
Mercer Law Review
Undeniably, 1998 proved to be an important year for bankruptcy in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, with the circuit ultimately producing a total of fourteen opinions having material bearing upon the debt relief process. In keeping with the cosmopolitan nature of bankruptcy practice, these decisions involved the court's performance of diversified tasks, ranging from the interpretation of intricate Bankruptcy Code provisions, to the construction of governing requirements from the Uniform Commercial Code, and the resolution of potential conflicts between the bankruptcy process and various constitutional or state law provisions. Provided below is an overview of each decision rendered during …
A Primer On 11 U.S.C. § 328(A) And Its Use In Alternative Billing Methods In Bankruptcy, Robert J. Landry Iii, James R. Higdon
A Primer On 11 U.S.C. § 328(A) And Its Use In Alternative Billing Methods In Bankruptcy, Robert J. Landry Iii, James R. Higdon
Mercer Law Review
Compensation of attorneys and professionals in the bankruptcy field is one of the most written about areas in bankruptcy law. Professionals, both familiar and unfamiliar with the mandates of the Bankruptcy Code and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, are having an increasingly difficult time obtaining approval for the envisioned compensation. Problems generally do not arise for debtors' attorneys in the run-of-the-mill Chapter 7 case or Chapter 13 case. Flat fees are charged in most of these cases, and applications to employ debtors' attorneys are not filed. Therefore, retention orders are not entered. However, outside the run-of-the-mill Chapter 7 or 13 …