Credit: Kenishirotie/Adobe Stock 'Chutzpah Comes to Mind': Court Disgorges Attorney Fee, Citing Lawyer's Misconduct
"The word 'chutzpah' comes to mind. [The attorney's] repeated violations of the bankruptcy rules and the code, along with counsel's lack of candor, more than justified entry of the fee order," Judge Kent Jordan wrote.
April 19, 2022 at 03:48 PM
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a series of penalties against an attorney who failed to disclose his fee to a U.S. bankruptcy court judge in a Chapter 11 case, and then accused the judge of bias.
The appeals court said the conduct of attorney Kevin Kerveng Tung in the Chapter 11 case of a small company warranted the disgorgement of a $19,400 fee that Tung failed to disclose to the court; as well as the denial of an additional, $31,819 fee application; and a referral to the chief judge for possible discipline.
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