Plaintiff Attorney Achievement Awards
Patrick A. Salvi II Pat joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. in 2007 and was named Managing Partner of the firm’s Chicago office in 2017. He concentrates his legal practice on cases concerning personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, and product liability. Throughout his time with the firm, Pat has recovered over $1.4 billion on behalf of his deserving clients. Pat was the lead attorney on a trial team that won a $363 million jury verdict for a woman who developed breast cancer from breath- ing toxic emissions from a Willowbrook medical device sterilization plant. The verdict was the largest jury verdict ever awarded to an individual plaintiff in Illi- nois history at the time of the trial. As one of the co-lead counsel of the litigation, Pat was later lead negotiator for settlements totaling $456 million globally for nearly 900 Plaintiffs who had also brought claims. In 2017, Pat and his trial team
won a record-setting $148 million jury verdict on behalf of a dancer paralyzed by a collapsed pedestrian shelter at O’Hare Inter- national Airport. The verdict is the highest compensatory verdict ever awarded to an individual plaintiff in the state of Illinois. In recognition of his outstanding legal work, Pat was named Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s 2023 “Person of the Year,” an honor given to the newsmaker, trendsetter or legal leader of the year.
The personal injury and medical malpractice law firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, P.C. was founded by attorney Patrick A. Salvi in 1982. Today, the firm has 22 lawyers and is supported by more than 35 staff members in their Chi - cago and Waukegan locations. Over the past 40 years, the firm has obtained more than $2.9 billion in verdicts and settlements on behalf of their injured clients, including more than 390 cases with recoveries of $1 million or more.
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