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B. Remcor Need Not be Employed Pursuant to the Terms of <br />Bankruptcy Code Section 327 <br />Section 327 (a) requires that "professional persons" may be <br />employed by a debtor's estate with court approval. "Professional <br />persons" is a bankruptcy term of art; although examples of <br />professional persons are listed in Section 327, this list is <br />probably not intended to be exhaustive. <br />At least one case has held that engineering firms are not <br />the type of professionals who require court approval for their <br />employment. In re Seatrain Lines, Inc., 13 Bankr. 980 (Bankr. <br />S.D.N.Y. 1981). In Seatrain, a frequently cited and followed <br />opinion, the court held that maritime engineers which the debtor <br />in possession wished to retain as consultants were not <br />professionals who required court approval. In so holding, the <br />court set forth a benchmark test for employment of professionals <br />under Section 327(a). The court stated that for purposes of <br />section 327(a), professional persons is limited to persons in <br />those occupations which play a central role in the administration <br />of the debtor proceeding. Id. at 981. This test was followed by <br />the court in In re Johns-Manville Coro., 60 Bankr. 612 (Bankr. <br />S.D.N.Y. 1986) in holding that lobbyists were not professionals <br />requiring employment under the terms of section 327 and by the <br />court in In re Fretheim, 102 Bankr. 298 (Bankr. D. Conn. 1989) in <br />holding that surveyors did not require employment under section <br />327. <br />5 <br /> <br />