Laurel Martinez

Partner at Malman Law
Chicago, IL9 years experienceAdmitted 2017

About Laurel Martinez

Laurel A. Martinez is a Partner at Malman Law in Chicago. Admitted to the Illinois Bar in 2017, she previously worked as a litigation technologies consultant with Groundwork Trial Consulting, participating in approximately 150 trials, and as an associate attorney at a civil defense firm in Chicago, defending commercial clients on premise liability, general negligence, commercial auto, and construction negligence cases. She joined Malman Law in 2021 and has been promoted to partner. At Chicago-Kent College of Law she served as President of the Hispanic-Latino Law Student Association, was a member of the nationally ranked Trial Team, and was inducted into the Bar and Gavel Society.

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

Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
J.D., 2015
Gannon University
Undergraduate, 2012

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois, admitted 2017
Chicago Bar Association
Women's Bar Association of Illinois
Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago
Diversity Scholarship Foundation (volunteer)

Awards & recognition

Bar and Gavel Society Inductee
CALI Awards (Ethics and Advocacy; Litigation Technologies)

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