07 B 03856

Chapter 11 debtors filed application to employ law firm as special litigation counsel to represent them in pending state-court litigation involving derivative claims and counterclaims the debtors’ principals filed against each other on behalf of certain debtors. The court overruled the objection from one of the debtors’ principal members and prior manager and held that the law firm’s employment was in the best interest of the estate and that the interests of the debtors’ controlling principals, who are defendants in the state court litigation, are not adverse to the estates’ interests. The court also noted that special counsel risked total denial of any requested compensation award if it failed to timely disclose the development of an adverse interest while representing the debtors.