In re Lang’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““ * * * It may not always be an easy matter to determine the exact value of the services of an attorney. Such value varies, as the value of the surgeon’s work varies with the importance of the operation and the skill and delicacy required in performing it. Where the operation is simple and relatively unimportant, the fee exacted would be small in comparison with that demanded for more serious work. So it is with the services of the attorney, and no fixed, absolute fee can be provided for all eases. The amount of compensation should be based, in ordinary eases, upon the nature of the case, the extent and character of the work actually performed, and the amount involved in the controversy. In bankruptcy cases, while these elements should properly be considered in fixing the compensation of the attorney, the policy of the act should be steadily kept in view, that is, that it should be administered with severe economy, * "* * so as to reduce to the lowest minimum the costs of administration. “Applying the above principles to the present ease, it will be noted that the attorneys considered $150 as ample compensation for advice given and labor performed in the preparation of the deed of general assignment, although they were in almost daily conference with their client for the period of a month. The deed of assignment contained, or a,t least should have embraced, all the data necessary for the preparation of the petition and schedules in bankruptcy. The petition and schedules used ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Buffum

2. “* * * So far as the record shows, the only service rendered by the attorneys in the voluntary proceeding, which is the particular and only matter under review, was the preparation of the petition and schedules, in addition to such professional advice as became necessary in connection therewith. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Barceloux