Woods & Erickson, LLP v. Leonard (In Re AVI, Inc.)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JURY, Bankruptcy Judge.
This appeal is from a $38,354.30 judgment rendered under 11 U.S.C. § 550(a)(1) and (2) 1 against a transferee of unauthorized postpetition transfers avoidable under § 549. During the postpetition period, appellant law firm, Woods & Erickson (“W & E”), received an unauthorized legal fee and later assisted the debtor in selling what it knew to be an undisclosed asset for $1 million and received some of the proceeds from the transferee for payment of further fees.
W & E, among other arguments, assigns error to the bankruptcy court’s ruling that a trustee may recover…
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