Attorneys and other professionals who worked on the Archdiocese of New Orleans bankruptcy case racked up roughly $60 million in fees and expenses over nearly six years, court documents show, making the case the second-costliest of more than 40 church bankruptcies filed in the U.S. over the past two decades.
The figures were disclosed in final fee applications filed in late February, two months after the archdiocese and its affiliated parishes and charities reached a $300 million settlement with hundreds of survivors of clergy sex abuse.
At some $360 million including the settlement and fees, the total cost of the case is more than 50 times greater than the $7 million that former Archbishop Gregory Aymond told the Vatican it would likely cost when he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2020 amid a rising…
