United States Seventh Circuit

Dismissal of an action for legal malpractice, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty is reversed where: 1) the court erroneously applied Illinois' fact-based pleading standard to the complaint; 2) the complaint satisfied the notice requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 8 for the legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty claims; and 3) the complaint satisfied FRCP 9's heightened pleading standard for the fraud claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/10/2006
• Decided 10/19/2006
• Published 10/19/2006

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, RIPPLE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin Whittaker (argued), Pavalon, Gifford, Laatsch & Marino, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Kies DeGrand (argued), Donohue, Brown, Mathewson & Smyth, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.