Dolezal v. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, S.C.

Plaintiff, Rudolph Dolezal, M.D., appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County declaring his employment with defendant, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, S.C. (PRS), to have been properly terminated and further declaring the parties’ noncompetition agreement to be valid and enforceable against him. PRS cross-appeals from the trial court’s order entering summary judgment in plaintiff’s favor on its causes of action against plaintiff for breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract.

The relevant facts are as follows. In the summer of 1984, plaintiff accepted an offer to join PRS,…