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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Dustan Dobbs v. DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., et al.

Case No.: 17-2195

Officials: FLAUM, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Fee Reward

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 co-counsel, 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 vacated a fee award to McLaughlin because the district court did not adequately address all the requisite quantum meruit factors. On remand, the district court evaluated each factor and awarded McLaughlin $87,500. For the reasons that follow, we affirm that award.

Affirmed

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