- 11 U.S.C.
In re Lyons
Nov
04
2010
Ruling
Nunc pro tunc appointment of special counsel to settle claim denied where successor to debtor's original law firm had not sought permission to represent debtor.
Procedural posture
Debtors filed a petition under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code in September 2002, and converted their case to one under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code in 2008. A trustee was appointed to administer the debtors' Chapter 7 estate, and he filed an application seeking permission to employ special counsel nunc pro tunc, to compromise a controversy pursuant to Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9019, to pay a contingency fee and expenses to a law firm.
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