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PAULSEN v. COCHRAN

No. 1-04-1325.

826 N.E.2d 526 (2005)

356 Ill. App.3d 354

292 Ill.Dec. 385

Michael PAULSEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Johnnie COCHRAN, The Cochran Firm, James D. Montgomery and Anthony Schuman, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

March 14, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Tepper, Chicago, for Appellant.

Melvin L. Brooks of Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Montgomery, LLC, Chicago, for Appellees Johnnie Cochran, the Cochran Firm and James D. Montgomery.

Michael L. Resis, Timothy J. Fagan and John D. LaBarbera of O'Hagan, Smith & Amundsen, LLC, Chicago, for Appellee Anthony Schuman.

Mara S. Georges, Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago, Chicago (Lawrence Rosenthal, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Benna Ruth Solomon, Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Erica M. Landsberg, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for Appellee City of Chicago.

Presiding Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Michael Paulsen appeals the dismissal of his legal malpractice action against defendants Johnnie Cochran and James D. Montgomery of the Cochran law firm, and Anthony Schuman (also written Schumann), an attorney who is not with the Cochran firm. The complaint arose from the representation and sentence Paulsen received when he pled guilty to a drug offense in Arizona. The trial court dismissed Paulsen...

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