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Naqvi v. Rossiello

Case Date: 03/29/2001
Court: 1st District Appellate
Docket No: 1-00-2880 Rel

FOURTH DIVISION

March 29, 2001

No. 1-00-2880

SHAID H. NAQVI,)Appeal from the
)Circuit Court of
)Cook County.
)
Plaintiff-Appellant,)
)
v.)
)
ERNEST T. ROSSIELLO and ERNEST T.)Honorable
ROSSIELLO and ASSOCIATES, P.C.,)Kathy M. Flanagan,
)Judge Presiding.
Defendants-Appellees.)

JUSTICE SOUTH delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal arises from an order of the circuit court of Cook County granting summaryjudgment and dismissing plaintiff's legal malpractice action against defendants.

Defendants are attorneys licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois. In August of1988, plaintiff retained them to represent him in a retaliatory discharge action against hisemployer. A complaint was subsequently filed by defendants on August 12, 1988, in the UnitedStates District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, alleging that plaintiff,a bookkeeper and accountant by education, training and profession, was employed by theemployer-defendant until July 5, 1988, when he was "wilfully" and "maliciously" discharged inretaliation for his refusal to engage in illegal activities and wrongful acts which would have beenviolations of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) of the United States (26 U.S.C.