DeRonde v. Shirley (In Re Shirley)

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• holding that § 327 “is made equally applicable to a debtor in possession as it is to a trustee by § 1107(a)”
• noting that allowing attorney to recover ■under quantum meruit and other state law theories would void bankruptcy code and rules requiring court approval of employment
• declining to permit an unapproved professional to circumvent § 327 by pursuing its claim under state law
• “Court approval of the employment of counsel for a debtor in possession is sine qua non to counsel getting paid.”
• “The failure of counsel to procure court approval through inadvertence is not one such [extraordinary] circumstance.” (citing In re Ark. Co., 798 F.2d 645, 649 (3d Cir.1986))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).