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MERRILEES v. MERRILEES

Docket No. 1-12-1897.

998 N.E.2d 147 (2013)

2013 IL App (1st) 121897

Pamela MERRILEES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert MERRILEES, James Rubens, Davis Friedman, LLP, Donald Casey, Matthew Casey, Springer, Casey & Dienstag, P.C., Stuart Litwin, and Gary Dienstag, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

September 27, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Office of Nishay K. Sanan ( Nishay K. Sanan , of counsel) and Thompson Coburn LLP ( J. David Duffy , Susan M. Lorenc , and Brittany E. Kirk , of counsel), both of Chicago, for appellant.

Much Shelist, P.C., of Chicago ( Warren Lupel and Jonathan L. Loew , of counsel), for appellees Robert Merrilees, James Rubens, and Davis Friedman, LLP.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, of Chicago ( Stephen R. Swofford , Thomas P. McGarry , and Terrence P. McAvoy , of counsel), for appellees Donald Casey, Gary Dienstag, and Springer, Casey & Dienstag, P.C.

Kralovec Meenan, LLP, of Chicago ( Daniel C. Meenan, Jr. , of counsel), for appellee Stuart Litwin.

Erin S. Sander , of Morton Grove, for appellee Matthew Casey.

OPINION

Justice LAMPKIN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 After reaching a negotiated settlement with her ex-husband in their dissolution of marriage case, plaintiff Pamela Merrilees sued her former attorneys, her ex-husband, her ex-husband's attorneys, and her ex-fiancé for alleged damages arising out of the settlement of that case. After the trial court gave plaintiff five chances to state a cause of action against any of...

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