Mealey's (February 13, 2020, 8:34 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — A former judge’s proposed testimony about the standard of care for “any reasonably competent Illinois lawyer” when handling a suit over a bank loan meets the requirements for admissibility, as long as he doesn’t say that the defendant law firm breached the standard of care, a federal judge ruled Feb. 10 in a legal malpractice case (Webster Bank, N.A. v. Pierce & Associates, P.C., No. 16-cv-2522, N.D. Ill., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22764)....