Supreme Court of Illinois

In a legal malpractice action arising from an auto accident, judgement in favor of defendant-attorneys is affirmed where the County could not have succeeded on its immunity claim, and thus, the attorneys' failure to perfect the appeal would have made no difference in the ultimate result for the County and its insurer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2006
• Published 06/15/2007

Judges

• Justice FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven D. Pearson, Peter Petrakis, Omar S. Odland and Melissa A. King, of Meckler Bulger & Tilson, L.L.P., Chicago, for appellants., Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Louis R. Hegeman and R. Seth Shippee, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for amicus curiae County of Cook., Darrell Cates, Springfield, Elizabeth A. Knight, of Knight, Hoppe, Kurnik & Knight, L.L.C., Des Plaines, for amicus curiae Illinois Association of County Engineers., Susan M. Garvey, Westchester, Elizabeth A. Knight, of Knight, Hoppe, Kurnik & Knight, L.L.C., Des Plaines, for amicus curiae Intergovernmental Risk Management Agency., Williams Montgomery & John, Ltd., Chicago (Alex R. Thiersch and Alyssa M. Campbell, of counsel), for amicus curiae Property Casualty Insurers Association of America., Kirsten M. Dunne, of Goldberg, Weisman & Cairo, Ltd., Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Marc Chemers, David S. Osborne, of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chrtd., Chicago, for appellees Mary E. Dickson and Bond, Mork & Dickson, P.C., Peter A. Monahan, Patricia M. Noonan, of Alholm, Monahan, Klauke, Hay & Oldenburg, Chicago, for appellees Jay S. Judge et al.