Robert Merlo (Associate-Chicago, IL), along with Kimberly Blair (Partner-Chicago, IL) and Joseph Stafford (Partner-Chicago, IL), received an Opinion from the First Appellate District affirming the dismissal with prejudice of a claim of breach of fiduciary duty against our law firm client. Plaintiffs alleged they could not have discovered that our client had potentially caused their alleged injury until an email between a lawyer at our client’s firm to the rival businessman advising about how to obtain downzoning in connection with the project involved in the plaintiffs’ case was revealed in discovery in another lawsuit. On appeal, Merlo, Blair and Stafford argued that it was irrelevant when the plaintiffs discovered that our client may have caused their claimed injury, since the two-year limitations period had run prior to any such discovery. The First District agreed, affirming the trial court and holding that the statute of limitations began to run, at the latest, when plaintiffs “knew they were injured, that their injury was wrongfully caused, and that [the rival businessman and an alderman] were involved in the ordinance change.”