Kirkland & Ellis partner Barry Irwin filed a lawsuit on behalf of a gaming client against talk show celebrity Montel Williams over a poker venture gone sour, only to see the case dismissed a mere 48 hours later, along with some judicial finger-wagging and a potential fine. In the dismissal, U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur chided Irwin for a jurisdictional misstep that he said the lawyer should have known about, given a decade's worth of related appellate rulings and the resources of a big firm like Kirkland.
December 15, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Kirkland & Ellis partner Barry Irwin got a rocket-docket experience last week in Chicago, but not in the good way.
Irwin filed a lawsuit on behalf of a gaming client against talk show celebrity Montel Williams over a poker venture gone sour, only to see the case dismissed a mere 48 hours later, along with some judicial finger-wagging and a potential fine.
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