Matthew Henry

Senior Counsel at Malman Law
Chicago, IL22 years experience

About Matthew Henry

Matthew K. Henry is Senior Counsel/Senior Partner at Malman Law in Chicago, with more than 20 years of experience in personal injury, nursing home abuse, and neglect law. He joined Malman Law in 2011 after several years at firms specializing in personal injury and nursing home abuse, including Kralovec, Jambois & Schwartz and the Law Offices of Matthew J. Morrissey & Associates. Throughout his career, Matthew has recovered tens of millions of dollars in compensation for clients and their families. He earned his B.A. in History and Political Science from Marquette University in 2000 as an Evans Scholarship recipient and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2003. Matthew has been named an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star five times.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Malman Law

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$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

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
J.D., 2003
Marquette University
Undergraduate, 2000

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois

Awards & recognition

Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Evans Scholarship Recipient (Marquette University)

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