AMR, the bankrupt parent of American Airlines, has received requests for payment of more than $21.1 million in legal fees and expenses incurred by lawyers from five of the six firms representing the Fort Worth-based company since the start of its Chapter 11 case in November.
The fee requests come as US Airways and its lawyers from Latham & Watkins inch closer to a possible merger between the two aviation giants. The Am Law Daily reported in January that US Airways-whose vice president of legal affairs Paul Galleberg is a former Latham partner-had hired the firm to evaluate a potential tie-up with AMR.
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