CEDENO v. GUMBINER

No. 1-03-0945.

806 N.E.2d 1188 (2004)

347 Ill. App.3d 169

282 Ill.Dec. 600

Leticia CEDENO, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Petra Cedeno, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James Ellis GUMBINER, d/b/a The Law Offices of James Ellis Gumbiner & Associates, and Bruce D. Goodman, individually, and d/b/a Steinberg, Polacek and Goodman, The Law Offices of Steinberg, Polacek & Goodman, and Emilo Machado, individually, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

March 11, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kupets & DeCaro, P.C., Chicago (Dennis J. DeCaro, of counsel), for Appellant.

Mulherin, Rehfeldt & Varchetto, P.C., Wheaton (Patricia L. Argentati, of counsel), for Appellee Gumbiner.

Alholm, Monahan, Keefe & Klauke, LLC, Chicago (Peter A. Monahan and Nizam Arain, of counsel), for Appellee Goodman.


Justice HARTMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff appeals from the circuit court's 2-619 dismissal of her legal malpractice action against defendants, her former attorneys; James Ellis Gumbiner, the Law Offices of James Ellis Gumbiner & Associates (Gumbiner), Bruce D. Goodman, Emilio Machado, and the Law Office of Steinberg, Polacek & Goodman (Goodman).1 On appeal, plaintiff questions whether the circuit court erred...

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