Gilmore v. Gilmore

Robert Lee Gilmore, defendant-appellant, brings this appeal from the order and judgment of the circuit court of Cook County granting *21,000 in attorneys’ fees to Messrs. Jerome Berkson and Miles N. Beermann, petitioners-appellees, for services performed for Mary Jane Gilmore, plaintiff. The two attorneys represented plaintiff in the prosecution of a partially successful appeal and in post-judgment proceedings initiated by plaintiff’s petitions for increase in alimony, for a hearing pursuant to the mandate of the appellate court issued in a prior appeal, and for defendant’s payment of…