Bankruptcy Judge Sanctions Lawyer for $110,000 , Warns About Being ‘Sequaciously

ABA Journal

A Nevada bankruptcy judge has sanctioned a lawyer $110,000 in legal fees for being too trusting. A lawyer for one of the owners of the Blue Pine Group told lawyer David Winterton that all of the corporate directors had passed a resolution authorizing a bankruptcy filing. Winterton believed the lawyer—and that was his mistake, according to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Bruce Markell in his opinion. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has the story.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bankruptcy_judge_sanctions_a_sequaciously_servile_lawyer


http://www.abajournal.com/files/BluePine.pdf