Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is facing a demand from an aircraft parts maker’s bankruptcy trustee to pay back $6.3 million that the law firm received for its work on litigation involving Delta Air Lines Inc.
The complaint, filed Feb. 17 by Super98 LLC’s Chapter 7 trustee in the the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, also seeks a declaration that Quinn Emanuel doesn’t have a valid attorney’s lien on the money it received. The lien would allow the firm to use it as a defense to the trustee’s payment claim.
The trustee’s demand stems from contingency ...