Lawyers who were fired two months before their client followed their advice and settled his product-liability lawsuit for $250,000 are entitled to be paid for their work, a federal appeals court has held.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week upheld an award of $87,500 in attorney fees made to Dustan Dobbs’ former lawyers.The court rejected the argument that U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman abused her discretion in making the award to George E. McLaughlin of Warshauer McLaughlin Law Group P.C. in …