Two Illinois lawyers will keep $1.7 million for representing clients who fired them for incompetency, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision Thursday.
Maureen O’Brien and her nephew Daniel O’Brien III hired lawyers Andrew Levenfeld and Stephen Schlegel to monetize the O’Brien’s share of family assets. The O’Briens fired the lawyers after 19 months and paid them nothing, claiming Levenfeld and Schlegel harmed rather than helped their case by providing bad legal advice. A circuit court disagreed and awarded the lawyers $1.69 million for their work.
The state’s high court agreed with the lower court’s reasoning. Though the ...
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