Eirene Salvi
VerifiedAbout Eirene Salvi
Eirene N. Salvi is a Partner at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. in Chicago, where she joined in 2016 and was named Partner in 2025. She concentrates her practice on medical malpractice, personal injury, and product liability cases, having recovered more than $575 million on behalf of her clients. In her first trial with the firm, she won an $11.25 million jury verdict in a wrongful death case, and was part of a trial team that secured a record-setting $148 million verdict for a dancer paralyzed by a collapsed pedestrian shelter at O'Hare International Airport — the highest compensatory verdict ever awarded to an individual plaintiff in Illinois. During law school, she externed at the National Immigrant Justice Center, successfully filing humanitarian parole applications for human rights violation victims from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Notable case results
A Cook County jury awarded Tierney Darden $148 million after a 750-pound pedestrian shelter toppled onto her at O'Hare and severed her spine, a record the city later settled for $115 million.
A Cook County jury awarded $79.85 million to the family of a 10-year-old girl killed when an unauthorized Chicago police pursuit ended in a multi-car crash, a verdict the parties later resolved for $62.5 million.
Paraplegia verdict (Illinois record)
Wrongful death verdict (Illinois record)
Wrongful death settlement
Personal injury settlement (Illinois record)
Wrongful death auto accident settlement
Personal injury settlement
Wrongful death verdict (first trial)
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
