B.O.C. Law Group, P.C. v. Carroll

OPINION

DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.

The bankruptcy court denied the appellant law firm’s fee application at the conclusion of the Chapter 13 proceedings below because that court believed the fee agreement between the debtor and her lawyers was void as a matter of law. The court reached that conclusion after finding *263that the written fee agreement was not signed within “5 business days after the first date on which [the law firm] provide^] any bankruptcy assistance services to” the debtor. 11 U.S.C. § 528(a)(1). The bankruptcy court believed that 11 U.S.C. § 526(c)(1) mandated that result.…