New York law does not recognize an expansion of the unfinished business doctrine to include pending hourly fee matters of a bankrupt law firm, a Southern District judge ruled yesterday.
Judge William Pauley (See Profile) held that the former partners of bankrupt Thelen do not retain a property interest in hourly fee matters that former Thelen lawyers took with them to new firms.
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