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About Bennett Wilcosky

Bennett T. Wilcosky is a Senior Associate Attorney at Malman Law, joining the firm in 2020. Prior to Malman Law, he practiced as a private criminal defense attorney representing clients in serious matters including First Degree Murder, homicide, and weapons cases. During law school he clerked at prominent Chicago civil rights and criminal defense firms. His Malman Law practice focuses on nursing home neglect and abuse, personal injury, probate, medical malpractice, and supportive living facility cases. Bennett has lived in Illinois nearly his entire life and was selected to the 2022 and 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars list.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Malman Law

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

$5.5 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Sandy Brooks, an 85-year-old dialysis patient who died after a Richton Park nursing home sent him to none of his scheduled treatments, tying the largest nursing home neglect verdict in county history.

Cook County Circuit Court, IL (Richton Park) · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$5.5 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Bettye Patterson, 80, who struggled to breathe for about 20 minutes after a power outage shut off her supplemental oxygen at a Palos Heights nursing home.

Cook County Circuit Court, IL (Palos Heights) · 2023Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$3 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $3 million to the family of Norma Darnell, 76, who died of pneumonia after a nurse at Alden Courts of Waterford in Aurora gave her about ten times her prescribed hydromorphone dose.

Cook County Circuit Court, IL (Aurora) · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
J.D., 2018
Illinois State University
Undergraduate, 2015

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
American Association of Justice
East Central Illinois Women's Attorney Association
Illinois State Bar Association

Awards & recognition

2022 Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars
2024 Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars

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