Chicago Team Secures Appellate Win In Legal Malpractice Action

Chicago, Ill. (February 27, 2023 – Chicago Partner George J. Manos and Associate Jason W. Jochum recently secured a significant appellate victory on a legal malpractice claim filed against a Chicago-based family law firm in Cook County, Illinois. The plaintiff in the matter claimed that the attorneys' failure to introduce evidence during a hearing caused a judgment in the five-figure range to be entered against him, and that the firm's fees were unreasonable.

Lewis Brisbois secured the dismissal of the complaint in the trial court based on the statute of limitations – an issue that is usually deemed a question of fact. Specifically, the trial court found that the plaintiff knew or should have known of his alleged injury in 2017 when the adverse order was entered, and that the plaintiff's suit – filed over two years later – was not timely. The plaintiff subsequently appealed to the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, claiming that he had not discovered his