In Re Highland Park Associates Limited Partnership I

MEMORANDUM OPINION

RONALD S. BARLIANT, Bankruptcy Judge.

The Debtors, by their new attorneys, have moved pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 542(e) to compel their former bankruptcy lawyers, Rosenthal and Schanfield, P.C. (“R & S”) to turn over files relating to the Debtor. R & 5 opposes that motion, asserting an attorney’s retaining lien. The motion will be granted.

The opinion principally relied upon by R & S, In the Matter of Matassini, 90 B.R. 508, 509 (Bankr.M.D.Fla.1988), does hold that a retaining lien is not extinguished by bankruptcy, but goes on to hold that “the lien is subject to the provisions…