Legal Opinion
A.O. Smith Corp. v. Lewis, Overbeck & Furman
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided October 29, 1991No. 90 C 5160PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
SHADUR, District Judge.
This legal malpractice action turns on the intricacies of antitrust law. A.O. Smith Corporation (“Smith”) and 16752 Corporation, formerly known as Sterling Electric, Inc. (“Sterling”), lost an antitrust tying case in which members of the firm of Lewis, Overbeck & Furman (“Law Firm”) served as Sterling’s trial counsel. Law Firm failed to raise a certain legal argument at trial, after which the jury returned a verdict and multimillion dollar trebled damage award against Sterling — a verdict since sustained after tortuous passage through the…
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