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Month: November 2016

November 22, 2016 Attorneys' Fees / Practice Tips

Retainer Agreements, Fee Disclosures, and the EDKY Rights and Responsibilities of Debtors’ Attorneys

Are you adequately and accurately disclosing to your clients and to the court what your fee agreement is for representing debtors in chapter 13 cases in the EDKY? Many attorneys, I fear, are not.

November 7, 2016 Practice Tips

Trustee’s Policy Change Affecting Attorneys’ Appearances at Court Hearings

I and my staff attorneys will no longer make representations to the court on behalf of an attorney who cannot or chooses not to appear at a hearing. No more courtesy announcements of continuances, settlements, agreements, withdrawals, or the like for absent attorneys. Read on for alternatives if you cannot appear at a hearing.

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