An attorney who represented himself defending against a frivolous lawsuit cannot recoup nearly $10,000 in attorney fees from the plaintiff, a state appeals panel ruled Friday.Illinois Supreme Court Rule 137 gives courts the authority to award attorney fees in a case, but it doesn’t state whether pro se litigants can recover those fees as well.But in cases involving other fee-shifting statutes, the courts have found that pro se litigants and attorneys are unable to collect those fees because they are not spending any …