Coastal Orthopaedic Institute, P.C. v. Bongiorno

This is an appeal by Coastal Orthopaedic Institute, PC. (Coastal), from a grant of summary judgment dismissing the counts in Coastal’s complaint alleging legal malpractice against attorney Anthony Bongiorno and his law firm, Mc-Dermott, Will & Emery, P.C. (MWE). (In this appeal the *56defendants, from time to time, will be collectively referred to as “the lawyer defendants.”)2

1. Procedural and factual background. The underlying case in which Coastal retained the lawyer defendants, and on which the legal malpractice action was predicated, involved employment termination claims by Bruce…