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About Chad Kasdin
Chad Kasdin joined Corboy & Demetrio in 2024 as a partner, transitioning from a large national defense firm. He brings nearly 24 years of litigation experience spanning professional liability, medical malpractice defense, business and commercial litigation, and premises liability.
His recent recognitions include selection to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2025-2026) and Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2025). He earned Illinois Leading Lawyers designation in 2024, 2025, and 2026 across three practice areas: plaintiff's personal injury, professional malpractice, and product liability, an achievement fewer than 5% of state attorneys attain. In 2026, he received Illinois Super Lawyers recognition in personal injury law for plaintiffs and induction into The Society of Trial Lawyers.
Prior honors include a Trial Excellence Award from the Jury Verdict Reporter (2013) for an Outstanding Defense Verdict in a Premises Liability Case and recognition as one of Illinois' Top 40 under Forty (2014). He was repeatedly selected to Illinois Super Lawyers' Rising Stars.
Kasdin frequently lectures at legal and business conferences. In 2021, he presented on the U.S. opioid crisis to European insurers. He has served as an invited speaker at the U.S. National Sports Safety and Security Conference and taught continuing legal education on deposition strategies, courtroom technology evidence presentation, and litigation communications. He played varsity basketball all four years at Skidmore College, serving as captain (1996-1997), and earned NCAA Academic All-America and Academic All-Conference honors.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Corboy & Demetrio
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A federal judge in Chicago entered a default judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran for a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq that killed Army Sergeant Joshua Soto and injured his platoon leader, First Lieutenant Miles Murray. Iran never appeared, and the court heard the plaintiffs' proof at a four-day evidentiary hearing. Murray was awarded $28 million, Soto's widow $32 million, and the couple's minor son $20 million, each including punitive damages.
Thomas Demetrio of Corboy & Demetrio represented seven of the people killed and injured when a suspended work platform fell from the John Hancock Center in 2002, part of a $75 million global settlement reached on the eve of trial.
A Cook County jury found Advocate Condell Medical Center responsible for the death of a 47-year-old quadriplegic father who suffered fatal baclofen withdrawal while waiting for a delayed surgery to replace his medication pump, and the verdict was later affirmed on appeal.
A Cook County jury awarded commuter Renea Poppel $29.6 million after a Metra Rock Island train took a 10 mph crossover at 69 mph and derailed, the largest Illinois verdict for one person injured in a mass-transit crash.
In May 1990 a Cook County jury awarded $22,358,814 to a 23-year-old flight attendant who was left an incomplete quadriplegic when a semitrailer struck her stopped car from behind in Highland Park, Illinois, in November 1987. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed in January 1997 but cut the future medical care award by $1 million, so $21,358,814 stood.
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