MEMORANDUM DECISION REGARDING ATTORNEY'S CHARGING LIEN
STUART M. BERNSTEIN, Bankruptcy Judge.
The defendant's attorney, Leo Fox, Esq. ("Fox"), asserts a charging lien in attached funds held in a blocked account at Chase Manhattan Bank ("Chase"). Fox contends that (1) the original Order of Attachment is void, (2) his charging lien attaches to the "claim" to avoid it, and (3) primes any judgment lien the plaintiff may eventually acquire in the fund. For the...
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