Order Authorizing Employment of Accountant — In re Panthera Enterprises, LLC, Case No. 2:19-bk-00787 (Bankr. N.D.W. Va.)

What This Document Is

Docket entry 216-2 is the second attachment to the trustee's Application to Employ Accountant, filed August 11, 2020: a proposed Order Authorizing Employment of Accountant, prepared by Chapter 7 Trustee Aaron C. Amore for the court's signature, one page in length.

Factual Summary

The proposed order recites that Amore, as trustee, filed the underlying application to employ an accountant and that, upon the court's consideration of that application, the trustee is authorized to employ Kelly T. Smith, CPA, CGMA, MBA, and the firm of Smith, Elliot, Kearns & Company, LLC, whose business address is listed as 19405 Emerald Square, Suite 1400, Hagerstown, Maryland, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the application. As a proposed order, the document itself records the terms submitted for the court's approval rather than an independent judicial finding, mirroring the form used for the trustee's earlier proposed order employing John P. Lantzy of the same firm (docket entry 211-2).

Key Facts

• Docket entry: 216-2 (attachment to docket entry 216), dated 2020-08-11.
• Nature: proposed order prepared by the applicant trustee for the court's signature.
• Accountant to be employed: Kelly T. Smith, CPA, CGMA, MBA, of Smith, Elliot, Kearns & Company, LLC, Hagerstown, Maryland.
• Terms of employment: as set forth in the underlying application (docket entry 216), including the $190/hour Smith rate and staff/administrative rate ranges.

Source Caveats

• This document is the proposed order as submitted with the application; the docket entry text for 216 does not separately confirm the date the court signed and entered this proposed order as final, and the docket's own record should be checked for entry-of-order confirmation distinct from the proposal date.