United States · Illinois statutory procedure

What is Illinois’s six-year attorney malpractice act-based period?

Section 13-214.3(c) ordinarily measures six years from the professional act or omission, except as provided in subsection (d). The two-year injury-discovery period can expire earlier. Disability and the 2022 transition require separate factual and edition review.

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Period: Six calendar years after the covered act or omission, subject to the statutory qualifications
Trigger: The alleged act or omission in the covered attorney professional services or employee assistance
Rule: 735 ILCS 5/13-214.3(a)–(g)

735 ILCS 5/13-214.3(a)–(g)

Section 13-214.3 source note P.A. 102-377, effective January 1, 2022. Subsection (g) addresses earlier services timely under the January 1, 2021 edition.

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The alleged act or omission in the covered attorney professional services or employee assistance

Use the ordinary six-year act component, then compare the potentially earlier injury-discovery period. Establish any client-death, disability and pre-2022 transition conditions separately.

Entry rules and timing exceptions

6 years from The date on which the act or omission occurred

735 ILCS 5/13-214.3(c)Binding

Rule notes

Use the ordinary six-year act component, then compare the potentially earlier injury-discovery period. Establish any client-death, disability and pre-2022 transition conditions separately. Measure six calendar years after the act or omission for the ordinary subsection (c) component. The preset does not compare the discovery interval, probate alternatives, disability chronology or reasonable transition time. Subsection (b) measures two years from actual or reasonable injury knowledge. A later six-year output alone does not establish that the action remains timely. Subsection (d) addresses injury occurring only at client death and the estate-claim or will-contest alternatives under its conditions. It also states that the action is in any event within six years of the professional services. Subsection (e) delays the stated periods for minority or other disability at accrual. Subsection (f) addresses a later disability stay and states that repose is not invalidated. Subsection (g) preserves specified claims involving services before January 1, 2022 that were timely under the January 1, 2021 law, for the stated reasonable time bounded by six years after the amendment’s effective date. Subsection (b) identifies professional services and the stated nonattorney employee assistance. Establish the actual claim and defendant before selecting this component.

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Which professional act starts the six-year component?

Identify the particular professional-services act or omission and its actual date.

Establish the claimant’s injury-knowledge date and compare the separate discovery component.

For services before January 1, 2022, determine timeliness under the January 1, 2021 version and the actual reasonable-time transition.

735 ILCS 5/13-214.3(a)–(g)

How does the act-based component interact with other branches?

Identify the particular professional-services act or omission and its actual date.
Measure six calendar years after the act or omission for the ordinary subsection (c) component. The preset does not compare the discovery interval, probate alternatives, disability chronology or reasonable transition time.
Check the final weekend, statutory holiday and the proper court’s actual calendar.
Commence the action within its applicable combined limits and retain the act and injury-knowledge evidence. Preserve the applicable historic statute and probate or disability records where material.

Section 1.11 excludes a final Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday and consecutive excluded days. Section 17(a) of the Promissory Note and Bank Holiday Act includes Pulaski Day, Good Friday and the general election for members of the House of Representatives. Check proclamations, the proper court’s actual calendar and clerk access separately. The bundled Illinois calendar covers 2026 and 2027.

5 ILCS 70/1.11

What does an independently derived example show?

Fictitious example

Use the ordinary six-year act component, then compare the potentially earlier injury-discovery period. Establish any client-death, disability and pre-2022 transition conditions separately. Services occurred in 2021. Timeliness under the January 1, 2021 version and reasonable transition time under (g) are independently assumed; the discovery component is later.

Example counting steps
Step	What is counted	Date
Established statutory event	The alleged act or omission in the covered attorney professional services or employee assistance	August 2, 2021
Applicable statutory period	Six calendar years after the covered act or omission, subject to the statutory qualifications	August 2, 2027

Example resultAugust 2, 2027

Fictitious 2021 services. Timeliness under the prior edition and reasonable transition time are independently assumed. This computes only the nominal six-year component and cannot establish those legal conditions.

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Which qualifications change this statutory calculation?

Discovery can supply an earlier boundary: Subsection (b) measures two years from actual or reasonable injury knowledge. A later six-year output alone does not establish that the action remains timely.
Client-death injury has explicit qualifications: Subsection (d) addresses injury occurring only at client death and the estate-claim or will-contest alternatives under its conditions. It also states that the action is in any event within six years of the professional services.
At-accrual and later disability differ: Subsection (e) delays the stated periods for minority or other disability at accrual. Subsection (f) addresses a later disability stay and states that repose is not invalidated.
Older services require the transition review: Subsection (g) preserves specified claims involving services before January 1, 2022 that were timely under the January 1, 2021 law, for the stated reasonable time bounded by six years after the amendment’s effective date.
Professional scope does not cover every claim against a lawyer: Subsection (b) identifies professional services and the stated nonattorney employee assistance. Establish the actual claim and defendant before selecting this component.

735 ILCS 5/13-214.3(a)–(g)

This calculation does not determine whether relief is available or whether the facts satisfy the statute.
A current statutory edition does not establish the law for every historical claim. Preserve the applicable edition and actual orders.

What must be completed and preserved?

Identify the particular professional-services act or omission and its actual date.
Establish the claimant’s injury-knowledge date and compare the separate discovery component.
For services before January 1, 2022, determine timeliness under the January 1, 2021 version and the actual reasonable-time transition.
Subsection (b) measures two years from actual or reasonable injury knowledge. A later six-year output alone does not establish that the action remains timely.
Subsection (d) addresses injury occurring only at client death and the estate-claim or will-contest alternatives under its conditions. It also states that the action is in any event within six years of the professional services.
Subsection (e) delays the stated periods for minority or other disability at accrual. Subsection (f) addresses a later disability stay and states that repose is not invalidated.
Subsection (g) preserves specified claims involving services before January 1, 2022 that were timely under the January 1, 2021 law, for the stated reasonable time bounded by six years after the amendment’s effective date.
Subsection (b) identifies professional services and the stated nonattorney employee assistance. Establish the actual claim and defendant before selecting this component.
Commence the action within its applicable combined limits and retain the act and injury-knowledge evidence. Preserve the applicable historic statute and probate or disability records where material. File with the proper clerk in the required format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires civil electronic filing, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily requires submission before midnight in the court time zone unless a statute, rule or actual order specifies a different time. A submission on a closed clerk day ordinarily receives the next open-day stamp. Preserve the actual electronic file mark, receipt and any filing-relief order. Filing and service are distinct acts.

Questions about 735 ILCS 5/13-214.3(a)–(g)