Mitchell v. Schain, Fursel & Burney, Ltd.

Plaintiff, William R Mitchell, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County granting summary judgment in his legal malpractice claim in favor of defendants, Schain, Fursel & Burney, Ltd., and James Graney. Plaintiff contends that the circuit court erred in concluding that, as a matter of law, defendants’ conduct was not the proximate cause of the loss of his underlying claim and erred in finding that the negligence of successor counsel acted as a superseding cause of the loss sufficient to break the chain of causation. For the following reasons, we affirm the judgment of the…