Legal Opinion
In Re Siller
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. California
Decided April 9, 2010No. 19-10327PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEIN, Bankruptcy Judge.
This case evokes an adage: Hell hath no fury like lawyers stiffed on $12 million in fees. Two of five law firms that represented the debtor in a thirteen-year corporate dissolution fight won a fee arbitration award that a state court confirmed. The debtor, saddled with the confirmed arbitration award that by then exceeded $12 million and facing other attorneys demanding $6 million in fees, invoked chapter 11 and objected under 11 U.S.C. § 502(b)(4) to the confirmed fee arbitration award as exceeding “the reasonable value of such services.”
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2Cases cited30 opinions
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- Butner v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- New Hampshire v. MaineSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
- Pepper v. LittonSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Local Loan Co. v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
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3Cited by3 opinions
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