August 17th, 2010
The Federal Bankruptcy Court in Boston handed down a decision sharply criticizing an attorney with 28 years of experience for putting his two clients, an elderly widow and her disabled daughter, through duplicative bankruptcy proceedings and attempting to collect excessive fees for both. Judge Boroff stated that it had “particular dismay with respect to the type of conduct” of the attorney. Based on the Court’s decision, clients seeking personal bankruptcy attorneys in Boston need to be ever vigilant about the reasonableness of the recommendations by those attorneys.
The Court examined the Bankruptcy Petitions and determined that notwithstanding the Chapter 13 filings, the petitioners had simple, straight forward, Chapter 7 cases.
