Harris Trust & Sav. Bank v. AM. NAT. BANK AND TRUST CO. OF CHICAGO

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREIMAN,

dissenting:

The majority finds that Harris Bank’s fee petition is sufficiently specific to support the trial court’s award of attorney fees and further reaches the conclusion that the trial court made a proper evidentiary determination of the reasonableness of the fee petition.

I believe that Harris Bank’s fee petition is insufficient and thus a determination of the reasonableness of the fees requested could not properly be reached.

A fee petition “must specify the services performed, by whom they were performed, the time expended thereon and the hourly rate charged…