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GERON v. ROBINSON & COLE LLP

Nos. 11 Civ. 8967, 12 Civ. 1364.

476 B.R. 732 (2012)

Yann GERON, as Chapter 7 Trustee of Thelen LLP, Plaintiff, v. ROBINSON & COLE LLP, et al., Defendants. Yann Geron, as Chapter 7 Trustee of Thelen LLP, Plaintiff, v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 4, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard P. Magaliff, Esq. , DiConza Traurig Magaliff LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

Christopher J. Major, Esq. , Meister Seelig & Fein LLP, New York, NY, for Robinson & Cole LLP.

Robert W. Dremluk, Esq. , Seyfarth Shaw LLP, New York, NY.

Thomas Feher, Esq. , Thompson Hine LLP, Cleveland, OH, for Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

WILLIAM H. PAULEY III, District Judge.

These actions arise from an alarming phenomenon — the bankruptcy of a major law firm. The pursuit of pending hourly fee matters as assets of the estate has become a recurring feature of such bankruptcies. But this concept of law firm "property" collides with the essence of the attorney-client relationship. That relationship springs from agency law, not property law. The client is...

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