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About Collin Gill
Collin J. Gill is a trial lawyer specializing in wrongful conviction, police misconduct, and malicious prosecution litigation. He joined Corboy & Demetrio as an Associate Attorney in 2024, having previously worked there as a Law Clerk during his time at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
In 2026, Gill received recognition as part of Super Lawyers' Illinois Rising Stars, an honor granted to merely 2.5% of eligible state attorneys. He was also selected to IL Leading Lawyers' Emerging Lawyers category in 2026, marking his second consecutive year with this distinction.
Before his current position, Gill served as a Judicial Law Clerk for Hon. Thomas M. Cushing of Cook County Circuit Court, where he assisted with case management, drafted orders and opinions, conducted legal research, and performed case analyses. Following law school graduation, he worked as an Associate Attorney at a Chicago firm focused on federal civil rights litigation.
During law school, Gill achieved Dean's List status and received the Thomas More Scholarship from 2019-2022. Additional recognitions included the Leadership, Service, and Public Interest Award and the CALI Award in Conflict of Laws. He served as guardian ad litem through Loyola's Community Law Center Clinic and as Associate Editor of the Loyola University Chicago International Law Review (2020-2021). As a Law Clerk at Corboy & Demetrio, Gill drafted motions, complaints, and briefs while supporting trial attorneys on cases including a wrongful death automobile accident matter that achieved a multi-million-dollar verdict.
Beyond legal work, Gill maintains active community involvement. Since 2022, he has tutored weekly with Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth. He also volunteers with Mercy Home for Boys & Girls and The Big Shoulders Fund as a mock trial coach, and previously served as an intake volunteer for Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (2019-2020). He also volunteered with Asociacion Proyecto Emanuel, supporting indigenous communities in Costa Rica's Chirripo district.
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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