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Litigation

Oct. 25, 2014

Judge slaps Shulman Hodges with fee denial, disgorgement

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Theodor C. Albert denied a fee application for $211,000 that Shulman Hodges & Bastian LLP had sought from a former client. The court also ordered the firm to return $58,000 in the tentative ruling.


By Alex Shively


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A judge has tentatively ordered Shulman Hodges & Bastian LLP of Irvine to disgorge $58,000 in fees in the bankruptcy of a travel entrepreneur in Orange County.


U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Theodor C. Albert also tentatively denied a $211,000 fee application filed by the firm, which previously represented the debtor, Steve Sedgwick.


Sedgwick hired Shulman Hodges to help him with restructuring. ...

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