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McKNIGHT v. DEAN

No. 00-3007.

270 F.3d 513 (2001)

Gary McKNIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth A. DEAN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 2, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Patterson (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Daniel F. Konicek, Konicek & Dillon, St. Charles, IL, Richard H. Donohue, Karen Kies DeGrand (argued), Donohue, Brown, Mathewson & Smyth, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In this extraordinary case an individual who obtained a $765,000 settlement in a suit for legal malpractice is suing — for legal malpractice — the lawyers who obtained the settlement for him. It is a tangled story, and we must begin at the beginning.

In 1987 Gary McKnight brought suit against his former employer, General Motors, in a federal district court in Wisconsin, charging discrimination in violation of 42 U.S.C....

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