Legal Opinion
Gary McKnight v. Kenneth A. Dean
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 2, 2001No. 00-3007PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In this extraordinary case an individual who obtained a $765,000 settlement in a suit for legal malpractice is suing — for legal malpractice — the lawyers who obtained the settlement for him. It is a tangled story, and we must begin at the beginning.
In 1987 Gary McKnight brought suit against his former employer, General Motors, in a federal district court in Wisconsin, charging discrimination in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He obtained a verdict of $110,000 in compensatory damages (of which half represented back pay) and…
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