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IN RE SILLER

Nos. 09-26167, 09-26849.

427 B.R. 872 (2010)

In re Charles W. SILLER and CWS Enterprises, Inc., Debtors.

United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. California.

April 9, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter R. Dahl, Dahl & Dahl, Sacramento, CA, for claimants Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy and Spiller•McProud.

Bradley A. Benbrook, Stevens, O'Connell & Jacobs, LLP, Sacramento, CA, for objector David D. Flemmer, Chapter 11 trustee, CWS Enterprises, Inc.

M. Elaine Hammond, Friedman Dumas & Springwater LLP, San Francisco, CA, for objector Charles W. Siller, Chapter 11 Debtor-in-Possession.

KLEIN, Bankruptcy Judge.

This case evokes an adage: Hell hath no fury like lawyers stiffed on $12 million in fees. Two of five law firms that represented the debtor in a thirteen-year corporate dissolution fight won a fee arbitration award that a state court confirmed. The debtor, saddled with the confirmed arbitration award that by then exceeded $12 million and facing other attorneys demanding $6 million in fees, invoked chapter 11 and objected under 11 U.S.C. &...

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