Robert Crivello

Milwaukee, WI22 years experienceAdmitted 2003

About Robert Crivello

Robert D. Crivello is an attorney at Cannon & Dunphy S.C. focused on personal injury litigation.

Crivello earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from Marquette University Law School in 2003, where he served as an Associate Justice on Moot Court (2002-2003). He earned his Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Western Kentucky University in 1999.

Crivello is admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin (2003), the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a member of the Milwaukee Bar Association, the Wisconsin Chapter of the Justinian Society of Lawyers, and the Wisconsin Association for Justice. He has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates since 2023.

His recognitions include Super Lawyers Rising Star (2008-2012), Wisconsin Super Lawyers for Personal Injury Law (2013-2025), and inclusion on the 2023 Wisconsin Law Journal Power 30 list of top personal injury attorneys in Wisconsin. Notable results include an $8.3 million jury verdict in a brain injury/paralysis case, a $2.8 million spinal cord injury settlement, and a $2.25 million settlement in a motorcycle accident with amputation.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Cannon & Dunphy S.C.

These results are credited to Cannon & Dunphy S.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Walworth County jury found Waukesha Memorial Hospital liable after a nurse pushed air into a two-week-old premature infant's IV line during a blood transfusion, sending emboli to his brain and leaving him with permanent quadriplegia and no usable speech.

Walworth County Circuit Court, WI · 2008Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Milwaukee jury verdict and a related settlement delivered $25.24 million to a family after an unlicensed first-year resident spent 11 hours treating their teenage daughter for constipation while a twisted bowel killed the tissue it fed.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Milwaukee, WI · 2004Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$15 millionVerdictTop 20 in Wisconsin · #10

An Ozaukee County jury awarded the estate of Judith Cisewski $15 million after a retaining wall at her Port Washington senior living campus collapsed and buried her under concrete blocks for roughly two hours; she died the following day.

Ozaukee County Circuit Court, Wisconsin · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

The family of a three-year-old girl who died of E. coli traced to contaminated beef at a South Milwaukee Sizzler reached a $13.5 million settlement, among the largest food-borne-illness recoveries in the country.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Milwaukee, WI · 2008Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$12 millionSettlementTop 20 in Wisconsin · #12

Cannon & Dunphy recovered $12 million for two families after an illegally overloaded cement truck ran a red light in Waukesha County, killing a van's driver and leaving a passenger with permanent brain injuries.

Waukesha County, WITruck AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Western Kentucky University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Wisconsin, admitted 2003
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
State Bar of Supreme Court of the United States
Milwaukee Bar Association
Wisconsin Chapter, Justinian Society of Lawyers
Wisconsin Association for Justice
American Board of Trial Advocates

Awards & recognition

Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2008-2012)
Wisconsin Super Lawyers - Personal Injury Law (2013-2025)
Wisconsin Law Journal Power 30 (2023)

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$99.25 million · Habush's $99.25 Million Miller Park Crane Collapse Verdict
Warshafsky Law Firm
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$4.9 Million Verdict for a Brain-Injured Boy Set a Wisconsin Record in 1979
Gruber Law Offices, LLC
Gruber Law Offices, LLC
$633,682 · Milwaukee County Jury Returns $633,682 Verdict in Day-Care Van Death of 7-Year-Old
PKSD Accident and Injury Lawyers
PKSD Accident and Injury Lawyers
$11 Million Verdict for Estate of 88-Year-Old Who Developed Fatal Heel Wounds at Albuquerque Nursing Facility

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.