About Mitchell Bild

Mitchell W. Bild is a trial lawyer who practices in all areas of personal injury and wrongful death law. He joined Corboy & Demetrio in 2022. He has been recognized as an Illinois Rising Stars honoree by Super Lawyers for three consecutive years through 2026, and was selected to the Lawdragon 500 X directory since 2023. He earned Emerging Lawyers recognition from Leading Lawyers in 2023-2026 and was named to The National Trial Lawyers' Top 40 Under 40 - Civil Plaintiff in 2023.

During law school at Chicago-Kent College of Law, he served as a law clerk at Corboy & Demetrio for two years. Following graduation, he worked as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Cook County Circuit Court's Law Division Motion Section from 2020-2022, drafting orders and conducting legal research while supervising judicial externs. He previously interned in the Civil Litigation Clinic, conducting research and writing memoranda on state and federal civil litigation matters.

He served as Executive Articles Editor of the Chicago-Kent Law Review (Volume 95) and Junior Editor (Volume 94), maintaining Dean's List status all three years. He excelled in Moot Court, winning the Ralph L. Brill Best Brief Award at the 2019 Ilana Diamond Rovner Competition.

A 2017 Michigan State University graduate with a B.A. in Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy, he was President of the Mock Trial Association and earned Dean's List honors in 2014, 2015, and 2017. He worked at Michigan State's Student Rights Advocates & Legal Services for four years, serving as Director (2016-2017) and Assistant Director, overseeing ten staff members in university legal proceedings and policy reform initiatives, particularly regarding Title IX.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the United Spinal Association's Illinois Chapter and the Auxiliary Board of the Center for Conflict Resolution, where he previously served as a Certified Mediator. In 2024, the American Association for Justice appointed him to its Law Schools Committee.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Corboy & Demetrio

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

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.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2006Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$42.4 millionVerdict

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.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2022Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$29.6 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2009 · #7

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.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2009Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$21.36 millionVerdict

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.

Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (affirmed as modified, Illinois Supreme Court) · 1990Truck 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

Chicago-Kent College of Law
J.D., 2020
Michigan State University
Undergraduate, 2017

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