Morad Elusta v. City of Chicago

WOOD, Circuit Judge.

This is a case about attorney’s fees. 1 But it is not the typical attorney’s fees case in which an attorney seeks review of a court’s award, perhaps arguing about an improperly calculated lodestar. Instead here, a client — Morad Elusta — seeks to compel two of his former attorneys, Zane Smith and Sheila Genson, to turn over some of the fee award to him. Smith and Genson represented Elusta in a civil rights suit against the City of Chicago, in which he won a $40,000 judgment. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, the court then awarded Elusta $82,696.50 for his attorney’s fees,…