Legal Opinion
Dobbs v. Depuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 13, 2018No. 17-2195PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Kanne, Circuit Judge.
George McLaughlin represented Dustan Dobbs in a products liability suit against DePuy Orthopaedics. After DePuy offered to settle the suit, but a few months before Dobbs accepted that offer, Dobbs terminated the representation contract and removed McLaughlin as counsel. Now, McLaughlin seeks attorneys' fees in quantum meruit for the services he and his cocounsel, Anthony Argeros, rendered in Dobbs's case. He brought this action on his own behalf, on behalf of his employer at the time he took Dobbs's case, and on behalf of Anthony Argeros's estate.
In a previous appeal, we…
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