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Watson v. Sullivan, 2026 IL App (5th) 250229-U

This is a Rule 23 unpublished order from the Fifth District (filed June 16, 2026) affirming the dismissal of a pro se legal malpractice complaint on statute of limitations and repose grounds. In my experience many legal malpractice claims are barred by the statute of repose. It baffles me that plaintiffs wait so long before consi...


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Gale v. Abramowitz is a fact pattern that comes up quite often – a lawyer makes an error and the error is eventually corrected. What damages did the client sustain? In this case the damages are the legal fees incurred to fix the error.

Pamela Gale hired the Abramowitz defendants to represent her in post-judgment divorce proceedings, where she was trying to collect her ...


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Stewart v. Brill & Fishel, 2026 IL App (1st) 240056-U

This is an unpublished Illinois First District Appellate Court decision issued May 12, 2026, reversing a circuit court grant of summary judgment in a legal malpractice case.

Background. Plaintiff Ricky Stewart was injured in 2017 when he fell while working in a Jewel grocery warehouse, ...


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