Legal Opinion
Mart v. Gozdecki, Del Giudice, Americus & Farkas LLP
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided November 16, 2012No. Case No. 12 C 2496PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
JOHN W. DARRAH, District Judge.
Brad Mart alleges that his former attorney, Gozdecki, Del Giudice, Americus & Farkas LLP (“GDAF”) committed legal malpractice because GDAF did not timely file a retaliatory discharge claim pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) against his former employer, Forest River, Inc. (“Forest River”), and its parent company, Berkshire-Hathaway, Inc. (“Berkshire”). GDAF moves to dismiss, arguing that Mart could not have prevailed on his SOX claim because he was an employee of Forest River, a private company, and not Berkshire and…
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