Statute of Limitations for Legal Malpractice in Illinois

Statute of Limitations for Legal Malpractice in Illinois

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Published December 10, 2025 • Updated May 16, 2026 • By DocketMath Team

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How the limitation period applies

The controlling primary authority for US-IL legal malpractice SOL (735 ILCS 5/13-214.3) is 735 ILCS 5/13-214.3.

735 ILCS 5/13-214.3. ional services or (ii) against a non-attorney employee arising out of an act or omission in the course of his or her employment by an attorney to assist the attorney in performing professional services must be commenced within 2 years from the time the person bringing the action knew or reasonably should have known of the injury for which damages are sought. (c) Except as provided in subsection (d), an action described in subsection (b) may not be commenced in any event more than 6 years after the date on which the act or omission occurred. (d) When the injury caused by the act or omission does not occur until the death of the person for whom the professional services were rendered, the acti

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Sources

All sources are official primary law published by www.ilga.gov.

Corroboration method: government_primary_source_direct_fetch.