Legal Opinion
Lawrence Hess v. Kanoski & Associates
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 4, 2015No. 14-1921PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
This breach of contract action is before this court — pursuant to our diversity jurisdiction — a second time. As a refresher, Lawrence J. Hess, an attorney, had worked on a number of medical-malpractice cases before his law firm, Kanoski & Associates, P.C. (“K & A”), 1 terminated his employment. Many of these cases settled after Hess’s termination, and Hess did not see a penny from the settlements. Hess felt cheated.
So he sued under his employment agreement and under the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (“IWPCA”) to remedy the perceived wrong. He also advanced…
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