Miller v. United States Trustee (In Re Independent Engineering Co.)

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the disgorgement of fees because counsel drew against retainers notwithstanding the court’s order requiring him to obtain prior court approval for any compensation
• \Courts have long recognized that failure to disclose is a sufficient basis for disqualification or disgorgement.\
• “Courts have long recognized that failure to disclose is a sufficient basis for disqualification or disgorgement.”
• retainer paid by third party to debtors’ attorney was property of debtors’ estate
• corporate debtor held property interest in unearned portion of the retainer paid to debtor’s attorney by debtor’s principal, where unearned portion of the retainer would be returned to debtor; retainer was thus property of the estate
• a “pattern of less than candid disclosure” warranted disgorgement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).