Show Temp 2 PDF — Doc. 32

What This Document Is

This is docket entry 32, a 2-page Order Approving Counsel for the Debtor, entered October 10, 2019, granting the debtor's application to employ Bernstein-Burkley, P.C. (docket entry 16). The queue's placeholder title ("Show Temp 2 PDF — Doc. 32") was an internal filename artifact, not a description of the filing. The source PDF is affected by a consistent per-character substitution cipher (the same defect pattern seen elsewhere in this case, e.g. docket entries 238-1 and 253); the text below was reconstructed by decoding the substitution rather than guessed at, since the cipher is legible and internally consistent (e.g., the recurring string decodes uniformly to "IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT").

Factual Summary

The order approves Bernstein-Burkley, P.C. (707 Grant Street, Suite 2200, Gulf Tower, Pittsburgh, PA) as attorney for the debtor effective as of September 13, 2019 (the petition date), for the reasons set forth in the underlying application at docket entry 16. The order includes standard boilerplate advising that fee approval will be based on the factors set out in the order (time and labor required, novelty and difficulty of issues, skill required, preclusion of other employment, customary fee, time limitations, experience and reputation of counsel, and awards in similar cases), that approval of the employment application is not itself a pre-approval of compensation under 11 U.S.C. § 328(a), and that any retainer paid to the attorney remains estate property pending further court order. The order also states that it does not authorize Bernstein-Burkley to retain or pay outside counsel or other professionals without prior court approval, unless done at no expense to the debtor.

Key Facts

• Docket entry: 32, filed and entered October 10, 2019, 2 pages, granting the application at docket entry 16
• Approves Bernstein-Burkley, P.C. as debtor's counsel effective September 13, 2019 (petition date)
• Fee approval remains subject to 11 U.S.C. § 328(a) notice-and-hearing requirements; this order is not itself a pre-approval of hourly rates
• Any retainer paid remains property of the estate pending further court order

Source Caveats

The source PDF is affected by a character-substitution encoding defect throughout; the summary above reflects a decoded reconstruction of a legible, internally consistent substitution cipher, not a direct OCR/text-layer extraction. Consult the source PDF directly, and cross-reference the plain-text application at docket entry 16, before quoting this order's exact language.