Kaufman v. 53 Duncan Investors, L.P.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FISHER, J.A.D.

After eleven years, the rent receiver in these consolidated actions sought, among other things, to be discharged and permitted an allowance for the attorneys’ fees it had incurred. The request for fees was disallowed solely because the rent receiver never sought the court’s approval of its employment of its attorneys prior to the incurring of those fees. We reject the adoption of such an “absolute rule” in these circumstances, and remand for consideration of the necessity and reasonableness of the fees sought.

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On July 13, 1990, appellant…