estate is a party, compliance with 11 U.S.C. § 327 is required.”); Voluntary Mediation Procedural Requirements (Bankr.E.D.Wash.2000) (“If the bankruptcy estate is a party, the party representing the estate is responsible to get the necessary authority required by 11 U.S.C. 327.”). 5 . It is worth noting that the Trustee would also have been violating § 363(b) if, without an order from this Court, he had used estate funds to pay all or any portion of ex-Judge Clark's fee for his mediation services. This is so because § 363(b) prohibits a trustee from using estate property other than in the "ordinary course of business” and case law is clear that payments of litigation expenses are not "ordinary course” payments.” See In re Fid-Standard Mortg. Corp., 839 F.2d 1517, 1522 (11th Cir.1988) (<HOLDING>); Hickey v. Nightingale Roofing, Inc., 83 B.R.
recognizing that an attorney hired to represent a debt or is not employed in the ordinary course holding that a payment made by certified check rather than the customary regular check was outside the ordinary course of dealings between the parties holding that the payment of a settlement from estate funds is not within the ordinary course under  363b holding that the debtors deposit of funds was not in the ordinary course of business and was for the purpose of creating a setoff right for the bank holding that the term reverse payment is not limited to a cash payment