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Stephen Phillips

Proven Verdicts
Managing Partner at Phillips Law Offices
Chicago, IL41 years experience

About Stephen Phillips

Stephen D. Phillips is the managing partner at Phillips Law Offices in Chicago, where he has secured record verdicts and settlements for injured people and families in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. He has obtained multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements in automobile, trucking, medical malpractice, product liability, construction, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. He is past President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and remains on its executive committee. Phillips was inducted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (limited to 500 attorneys worldwide) in 2011 and the International Society of Barristers in 2020.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$25 millionVerdict

A Lake County jury awarded $25 million to Patricia Amsden after her husband Phillip was struck and killed on Interstate 65 by a driver with a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, holding the driver, his employer, and two bars that served him accountable.

Lake Superior Court, Lake County, IN · 2015Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$14 millionVerdict

A Coles County jury awarded Mark Allen $14 million after Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center failed to diagnose a spinal epidural abscess across three emergency visits, leaving him with permanent spinal cord injuries.

Coles County, IL (Illinois Appellate Court, 4th District affirmed 2021) · 2019Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Loyola University Chicago School of Law
J.D., 1985
University of Iowa
Undergraduate, 1981

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (Past President, Executive Committee)
International Academy of Trial Lawyers
International Society of Barristers

Awards & recognition

International Academy of Trial Lawyers (inducted 2011)
International Society of Barristers (inducted 2020)
Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Illinois - The National Trial Lawyers
Avvo 10/10 rating
Best Lawyers - Medical Malpractice Law (Plaintiffs)
Super Lawyers

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$110 million · American Eagle Flight 4184: $110 Million Crash Settlement and a Courtroom Apology
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$75 million · John Hancock Center Scaffold Collapse: $75 Million Settlement for the Killed and Injured
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$363 million · Sterigenics Verdict: $363 Million for a Willowbrook Cancer Survivor
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$100 million · Willis Family Wrongful Death Settlement: $100 Million After Six Children Killed in I-94 Truck Crash
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$98.65 million · $98.65 Million Verdict for Family of Botham Jean, Shot in His Own Apartment by Off-Duty Dallas Officer