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About Michael Sorich
Michael J. Sorich is a partner at Cavanagh Sorich Law Group with more than two decades of trial experience. Before joining the firm in 2016, he served 13 years in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, where he tried more than 50 jury trials in state and federal court and argued multiple cases before the Illinois Appellate Court. Sorich is admitted in Illinois and Florida and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He obtained his J.D. cum laude from UIC John Marshall Law School in 2003 and his B.A. in Accounting from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2000.
Since joining the firm he has secured more than $300 million in verdicts and settlements for injured clients. He has been named to the Illinois Super Lawyers list, the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, and is a Leading Lawyer in Illinois, a distinction held by fewer than five percent of Illinois attorneys. His notable results include the $104 million Cook County toll highway verdict in 2025 and a $50 million FELA railroad settlement in 2024.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Cook County jury found the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority negligent for a 2016 construction zone crash on I-90 that killed one limousine passenger and left Rob Rosá paralyzed from the neck down, awarding Rosá and his spouse just over $104 million on October 9, 2025.
Early on April 10, 2009, off-duty Chicago police detective Joseph Frugoli, driving with a blood alcohol level about three times the legal limit, slammed his SUV into a car stopped on the shoulder of the Dan Ryan Expressway with a flat tire. The car caught fire and both occupants, 23-year-old Andrew Cazares and 21-year-old Fausto Manzera, were killed. The families sued Frugoli and the City of Chicago, arguing a departmental 'code of silence' had let Frugoli drink and drive for years without discipline. The city settled in December 2017 during closing arguments, and the Chicago City Council approved the payout on February 28, 2018: $20 million total, split evenly between the two families. Timothy Cavanagh and Michael Sorich were attorneys of record for the Cazares side, which took $10 million; Kevin Conway of Cooney & Conway represented the Manzera family.
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