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Fees increased 8.6percentt a year in that period for a total of 51percentt in all fee applications.
Fee applications recently unsealed by Judge Edward R. Korman of Federal District Court in Brooklyn indicate that the bills could reach several million dollars.
The United States Trustee is an arm of the Justice Department that is charged with, among other things, monitoring professional fee applications in corporate bankruptcy cases.
Moreover, the trustee's guidelines obtain something like the force of law in many bankruptcy courts, since local court rules require fee applications to comply with the guidelines.
The main fee applications decided yesterday were for $1.4 million in claimed work, excluding expenses, on the case by six firms designated interim counsel before the Boies firm won control of the lawsuit on May 25.
All of the firms submitting fee applications to the court have agreed to a 10percentt discount from their usual rates, except for a firm in Gibraltar, which has discounted its rate by 20percentt.
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The fee application said he intended to discount those fees by 10 percent.
Thus, when every professional files a telephone book-size fee application, the guidelines play some role.
"There's no reason for Kensington to have looked at the fee application filings in any case," Mr. Gibbons said.
And it is "easier to get your fee application approved in New York than in Ohio", says the lawyer.
Outside of bankruptcy, they do not face the risk of uncompensated time spent defending their own fee application from a disgruntled third party.
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