Legal Opinion
Rexnord Corporation v. Dewolff Boberg & Associates, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 16, 2002No. 01-3095PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Rexnord, a manufacturer of roller chain, hired DeWolff Boberg & Associates (DBA), a management-consulting firm, to help improve its productivity. The parties had a falling out and Rexnord brought this diversity suit for breach of contract, obtaining a jury verdict of some $1.6 million, exactly one-half of what it had sought. To that amount the judge added an award of attorneys’ fees of almost $600,000 pursuant to a term of the contract. Indiana law is agreed to govern all the substantive issues in the litigation.
The consulting agreement was drafted by DBA and provides…
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