In re THELEN LLP.
YANN GERON, as Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of THELEN LLP, Appellant,
v.
SEYFARTH SHAW LLP, Respondent.
In re COUDERT BROTHERS LLP, Debtor.
v.
DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS, INC., Respondent-Appellant,
K&L GATES LLP et al., Appellants-Respondents,
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP et al., Appellants-Respondents.
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Argued June 4, 2014.
Decided July 1, 2014.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Rich Michaelson Magaliff Moser, LLP, New York City ( Howard P. Magaliff of counsel), for appellant in the first above-entitled proceeding.
Jones Day, Washington, D.C. ( Shay Dvoretzky of counsel), Jones Day, New York City ( Geoffrey S. Stewart of counsel), and Jones Day, Atlanta, Georgia ( Jeffrey B. Ellman of counsel), for Jones Day, appellant-respondent in the second above-entitled proceeding.
Glenn Lau-Kee , New York State Bar Association, Albany, Damian Schaible , The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York City, and Barbara Moses , New York County Lawyers' Association, for New York State Bar Association and others, amici curiae in the first and second above-entitled proceedings.
Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges GRAFFEO, SMITH, PIGOTT, RIVERA and ABDUS-SALAAM concur.
Court of Appeals of New York.
OPINION OF THE COURT
READ, J.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has asked us two questions relating to "whether, for purposes of administering [a] ... related bankruptcy, New York law treats a dissolved law firm's pending hourly fee matters as its property" (In re Thelen LLP,736 F.3d 213, 216 [2d Cir 2013]). We hold that pending hourly fee matters are not partnership "property" or "unfinished...
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