In Re Stewart

MEMORANDUM OPINION ON ATTORNEY’S FEES

HAL J. BONNEY, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

This proceeding came upon applications of the interim trustees for examination of fees charged the above-captioned debtors by their attorney, Richard S. Harman. The unusual circumstances underlying the cases are as follows.

Harman is a Norfolk based attorney who, in the diligent pursuit of an expanded clientele, advertised low-cost legal services in local publications. His advertised fee varied from a high of $200 for an individual, no-asset chapter 7 case to the present low of $170.

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