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'No Look' Attorneys' Fees And The Attorneys Who Are Looking: An Empirical Analysis Of Presumptively Approved Attorneys' Fees In Ch. 13 Bankruptcies And A Proposal For Reform, Bruce Price Dec 2010

'No Look' Attorneys' Fees And The Attorneys Who Are Looking: An Empirical Analysis Of Presumptively Approved Attorneys' Fees In Ch. 13 Bankruptcies And A Proposal For Reform, Bruce Price

Bruce M Price

This article presents original empirical research on the issue of “No Look” or presumptively approved attorneys’ fees in consumer Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases. 11 U.S.C. section 330 requires court approval of attorneys’ fees. Courts are frequently unable to address the volume of applications if individual review were required. As such, many courts have set presumptively approved attorneys’ fees in which the attorneys’ fees for routine services are approved administratively. Circuits are split as to whether this practice can be rationalized with existing case law, the Bankruptcy Code or legislative intent. The study examines the practices of each Bankruptcy Court and …


Halting, Altering And Agreeing, Bruce M. Price Dec 2010

Halting, Altering And Agreeing, Bruce M. Price

Bruce M Price

Utilizing Felstiner, et al.'s Naming, Blaming and Claiming as a conceptual framework, I argue that the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process represents a dispute transformation mechanism. Disputes are transformed through a series of stages I call Halting, Altering and Agreeing. This transformative dispute process can be conceptualized as a form of disputing that accomplishes many of the goals of ADR, while avoiding the ideological and substantive critiques outlined by Harrington, Engle Merry, Yngvesson, and others. Finally, the development of this dispute mechanism is historically situated in light of the transition to the modern form of contract law and welfare state considerations …


Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, Ingrid Hillinger, Raymond Nimmer, Michael Hillinger Dec 2002

Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, Ingrid Hillinger, Raymond Nimmer, Michael Hillinger

Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger

Accompanied by Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, 3rd ed. Teacher's Manual, by Nimmer, Hillinger and Hillinger. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis, 2003


Consumer Protection Rules In And Around The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (Ucita), Ingrid Hillinger, Michael Hillinger, Diane Rallis Dec 2000

Consumer Protection Rules In And Around The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (Ucita), Ingrid Hillinger, Michael Hillinger, Diane Rallis

Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger

No abstract provided.


Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, Ingrid Hillinger, Raymond Nimmer, Michael Hillinger Dec 1998

Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, Ingrid Hillinger, Raymond Nimmer, Michael Hillinger

Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger

Accompanied by Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems, 2nd ed. Teacher's Manual, by Nimmer, Hillinger and Hillinger. New York: Lexis Publishing, 2000


Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing, Cases, Materials, Problems, Ingrid Hillinger, Raymond Nimmer Dec 1991

Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing, Cases, Materials, Problems, Ingrid Hillinger, Raymond Nimmer

Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger

No abstract provided.


Consulting Editor: Selected Law Cases, 1784-1800, Ingrid Hillinger Dec 1986

Consulting Editor: Selected Law Cases, 1784-1800, Ingrid Hillinger

Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger

No abstract provided.


The Article 9 Filing Rules: Certainty, By No Means, A 'Sure Thing', Ingrid Hillinger Dec 1986

The Article 9 Filing Rules: Certainty, By No Means, A 'Sure Thing', Ingrid Hillinger

Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger

No abstract provided.