Duplicative Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim Dismissed
By EsqSocial Corporation 21/06/21
The Northern District of Illinois dismissed a count of a complaint for breach of fiduciary duty that duplicated a claim for legal malpractice. The plaintiff alleged that the counts alleged different acts of wrongdoing, but the court held that the plaintiff could not avoid the rule against pleading duplicative claims by arbitrarily assigning some facts to the breach of fiduciary duty count and some to the malpractice count......
By: Novack and Macey LLP