Legal Opinion
Cadle Company v. Jan Richard Schlichtmann
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 4, 2001No. 00-1517PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.
This appeal presents the questions of whether a security interest in the accounts receivable of a law firm- — -including an account arising from a contingent fee agreement — survives the firm’s dissolution and the bankruptcy of one of its partners and, if it does, whether it attaches to a post-bankruptcy payment of the fee. We hold that it does and reverse the judgment.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
From 1990 to early 1991, the law firm of Schlichtmann, Conway, Crowley and Hugo (the firm) represented plaintiffs in certain environmental litigation in the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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3Cited by19 opinions
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