The sleek design and glistening motorcycles in the lobby of Gilbert Heintz & Randolph’s Washington, D.C., office are a testament to the insurance-recovery firm’s successes representing clients in asbestos bankruptcies and other matters. The office certainly doesn’t give the impression that the firm itself could be teetering toward the edge of bankruptcy.

But that’s the situation Gilbert Heintz could be in if it is forced to immediately make good on an order from a New Jersey court to return approximately $9.7 million in legal fees it earned representing New Jersey flooring manufacturer Congoleum Corp. in asbestos bankruptcy proceedings, says the firm’s lawyer fighting the order.

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