By: Brenna Working A verbal altercation in bankruptcy court shook up ordinary proceedings, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. The dispute involved a lawyer and bankruptcy judge, and was apparently not the first time the two men have clashed in the courtroom. The original case, it seems, involved attorney Kevin C. Gleason's client, a real estate agent who had overseen the bankruptcy sale of Fort Lauderdale company New River Dry Dock. According to reports, the real estate agent had taken her usual commission on the $12 million sale; the bankruptcy judge, though, insisted that the commission was not legal because the sale was part of a bankruptcy. But Gleason disagreed, allegedly filing a statement that called the judge's findings "half baked" and questioned his ability to make appropriate rulings. The argument escalated when the bankruptcy judge, John K. Olson, wrote in … [Read more...]