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About Michael D. Ditore

Michael D. Ditore is a Partner at Power Rogers, LLP with more than a decade of experience representing individuals and families in high-stakes personal injury litigation. Mike has served as first-chair and lead counsel in multiple medical malpractice and catastrophic injury/wrongful death jury trials, and an elite track record in high-stakes cases which has led him recover more than $125 million in verdicts and settlements, including multiple seven and eight-figure results in recent years. In 2022, Mike obtained a record-setting $42.4 million medical malpractice verdict and successfully defended the result on appeal. In 2023, Mike obtained a $10.5 million wrongful death verdict for the family of a man killed during a police pursuit.

Mike was listed in Top 50 Verdicts in Illinois in 2019 for a $2.6 million jury verdict he obtained in a medical malpractice case. In 2024, as lead counsel, Mike obtained multiple seven-figure results, including a $7.7 million settlement for a man injured in an auto collision. Mike has also secured record wrongful death recoveries in Kane and McLean Counties. Mike was selected to the 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, after previously being selected to the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch."

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Education

Loyola University Chicago School of Law
J.D.
Illinois State University
Undergraduate

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