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122 phrase “ ‘reasonable compensation for services rendered’ necessarily implies loyal and disinterested service in the interest of” a client, Woods v. ''City Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago'', 312 U. S. 262, 268. Time spent litigating a fee application against the bankruptcy estate’s administrator cannot be fairly described as “labor performed for”let alone “disinterested service to”—that administrator. Had Congress wished to shift the burdens of fee-defense litigation under §330(a)(1), it could have done so, as it has done in other Bankruptcy Code provisions, e. g., §110(i)(1)(C). Pp. 127–129.