Legal Opinion
Joan Godlove v. Bamberger, Foreman, Oswald, and Hahn, a General Partnership
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 6, 1990No. 89-2722PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
There is an old adage that “one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.” 1 So it is in this case even though plaintiff, Joan Godlove, is a summa cum laude graduate of the Indiana University School of Law, and a member of the bar. This lawyer should have declined to represent this client.
Plaintiff was hired as an attorney by the defendant law firm, Bamberger, Foreman, Oswald & Hahn, in January 1981 and fired in July 1983. In June 1985, she brought this pro se action against her former firm and certain named partners alleging on eight different grounds…
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