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GARRETT v. LAWYERS INC.

No. 1-94-0403.

653 N.E.2d 48 (1995)

273 Ill.App.3d 545

210 Ill.Dec. 461

Terry Lee GARRETT and Patricia Garrett, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LAWYERS INCORPORATED and Jeffrey A. Brody, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

June 29, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter A. Monahan, Anne M. Oldenburg and Scott J. Brown, Alholm and Monahan, Chicago, for appellants.

Craig S. Mielke and Thomas U. Hipp, Murphy, Hupp, Foote, Mielke and Kinnally, Chicago, for appellees.

Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs sued defendants for legal malpractice alleging that they had failed to file a lawsuit before the statute of limitations had run. The trial court denied defendant's motion to dismiss, but certified a question for interlocutory appeal under Supreme Court Rule 308. We reverse.

The question is phrased in such a way that we are asked to address the impact of...

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