Electronic Disbursements to Debtors’ Attorneys
Attention Debtors’ Attorneys: You can now have my office pay your fees to you via direct deposit instead of by
Tag: Attorneys’ Fees
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.
Substitution of Counsel (Debtors’ Attorneys)
You agree to the $3,500 “no-look” fee. Sometime before confirmation, you and your client part ways, and you do an agreed order of substitution with the debtor’s new attorney. Who is supposed to be paid, and how much?
Chapter 13 Trustee, EDKY: Trustee's Blog 