PRAXAIR, INC. v. HINSHAW & CULBERTSON

No. 00-1960.

235 F.3d 1028 (2000)

PRAXAIR, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HINSHAW & CULBERTSON, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 20, 2000.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert V. Shannon (argued), Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Gordon B. Nash, Jr., Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee.

Before POSNER, COFFEY, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Praxair, the plaintiff in this diversity suit for legal malpractice governed by Illinois law, appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the defendant, Hinshaw & Culbertson ("Hinshaw" for short), its former law firm. Praxair (actually a predecessor corporation, but we'll suppress that detail for the sake of simplicity) was the defendant in a breach of contract suit brought by Credit Agricole, a French bank. That suit, in which Praxair...

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