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A.O. SMITH CORP. v. LEWIS, OVERBECK & FURMAN

No. 90 C 5160.

777 F.Supp. 1405 (1991)

A.O. SMITH CORPORATION and 16752 Corporation, f/k/a Sterling Electric, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. LEWIS, OVERBECK & FURMAN, Douglas A. Lindsay, Robert A. Subkowsky and Robert A. Wolz, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

October 29, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott W. Hansen, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiffs.

George W. Spellmire, Thomas P. McGarry, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

This legal malpractice action turns on the intricacies of antitrust law. A.O. Smith Corporation ("Smith") and 16752 Corporation, formerly known as Sterling Electric, Inc. ("Sterling"), lost an antitrust tying case in which members of the firm of Lewis, Overbeck & Furman ("Law Firm") served as Sterling's trial counsel. Law Firm failed to raise a certain legal argument at trial, after which the jury...

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