$1000+/Hour Attorney Fees

   The Justice Department’s U.S. Trustee Program is asking law firms, whose billing rates approach or exceed $1000/hour in Chapter 11 reorganization cases, to justify their rates according to the Wall Street Journal. The rates allowed professionals in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy to be paid more than $1.4 billion according to the WSJ article.

 

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