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About Tommy Demetrio
Tommy Demetrio joined Corboy & Demetrio as an Associate on July 1, 2020. He practices in all areas of personal injury law and workers' compensation.
Since 2023, Tommy has been selected to the elite Lawdragon 500 X - The Next Generation, the top 500 up-and-coming lawyers nationwide. He was selected to 2024 Illinois Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters, and since 2021 he has been selected to Emerging Lawyers by the Leading Lawyers network, an honor given to fewer than 2% of Illinois attorneys.
Before joining Corboy & Demetrio, Tommy honed his skills as a trial lawyer at Clifford Law Offices, where he represented plaintiffs in personal injury litigation, including asbestos lawsuits and asbestos bankruptcy claims. Before joining Clifford as an attorney, Tommy worked as a law clerk at the firm from 2017-2018.
Tommy worked as a Summer Associate at Arnstein & Lehr in 2017, where he drafted motions, memos and briefs for partners, including motions to the United States Bankruptcy Court. From 2016-2017, he worked as a Law Clerk at Hinshaw & Culbertson, where he composed deposition summaries, prepared clients for depositions, and edited and reviewed contracts, motions and briefs. Prior to his legal career, Tommy was admitted into the prestigious NBC Page Program and went on to work at NBC Universal from 2012-2014.
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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