Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit December 23, 2014, No. 14-1475 (In re Ruben)

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In 2008 Lauralee Bell, on behalf of a trust of which she was the trustee, sued Philip Ruben, a lawyer, plus other persons and his former law firm, in an Illinois state court. She charged the defendants, including Ruben, with having both negligently and fraudulently mismanaged her trust, *1139inflicting a loss on it of some $34 million.