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(a) Order Approving Employment; Application for Employment.
(1) Order Approving Employment. The court may approve the employment of an attorney, accountant, appraiser, auctioneer, agent, or other professional under § 327, § 1103, or § 1114 only on the trustee’s or committee’s application.
(2) Application for Employment. The applicant must file the application and, except in a Chapter 9 case, must send a copy to the United States trustee. The application must state specific facts showing:
(A) the need for the employment;
(B) the name of the person to be employed;
(C) the reasons for the selection;
(D) the professional services to be rendered;
(E) any proposed arrangement for compensation;
(F) and to the best of the applicant’s knowledge, all the person’s connections with:
- the debtor;
- creditors;
- any other party in interest;
- their respective attorneys and accountants;
- the United States trustee; and
- any person employed in the United States trustee’s office.
(3) Verified Statement of the Person to Be Employed. The application must be accompanied by a verified statement of the person to be employed, setting forth that person’s connections with any entity listed in (2)(F).
(b) Services Rendered by a Member or Associate of a Law or Accounting Firm. If a law partnership or corporation is employed as an attorney, or an accounting partnership or corporation is employed as an accountant—or if a named attorney or accountant is employed—then any partner, member, or regular associate may act as so employed, without further court order.
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