Legal Opinion
Berliner v. Pappalardo (In Re Sullivan)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 21, 2012No. 11-1830PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Asserting that the legal fees awarded for professional services rendered in a Chapter 13 proceeding were too meager, a bankruptcy attorney challenges the award. The district court rejected his importun-ings, and so do we.
The facts are straightforward. Late in 2008, the debtors, David Sullivan and his wife, Luz Eneida Sullivan, engaged the appellant, L. Jed Berliner, to represent them in bankruptcy proceedings. At the time, the debtors had a good income, but they owed more than $115,000 in unsecured debt with no realistic prospect of payment.
The appellant took their case.…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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