In Re Castorena

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “Lawyers, or paralegals for that matter, may not charge professional rates for clerical functions”
• criticizing and requiring the attorney to disgorge his $250 flat fee, which the court found was unreasonable given the services he provided
• ordering attorney to disgorge fees paid by Chapter 7 debtors when, among other things, the attorney failed to adequately describe the services he provided and prepared amended schedules because the original schedules all contained errors
• limitation of services must be “carefully considered and narrowly crafted and be the result of educated and informed consent.”
• an attorney must be prepared to assist a debtor through the normal, ordinary and fundamental aspects of the bankruptcy process
• an attorney must be prepared to assist a debtor through the normal, ordinary and fundamental aspects of the bankruptcy process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).