Legal Opinion
Jain v. Johnson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided January 20, 2010No. 2-09-0080PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Schostok
This case presents the question of whether the Illinois saving statute (735 ILCS 5/13 — 217 (West 2008)), which permits the refiling of certain dismissed actions within one year, creates an exception to the statute of repose for legal malpractice actions (735 ILCS 5/13— 214.3(c) (West 2008)). For the following reasons, we hold that it does.
On May 7, 2001, the plaintiff, Bhagwan Dass Jain, filed a legal malpractice action against the defendants, his former lawyers, for malpractice allegedly accruing on May 9, 1999. (The defendants allegedly failed to file a lawsuit on the plaintiffs behalf…
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