Jennifer Ashley

Chicago, IL26 years experienceAdmitted 1999

About Jennifer Ashley

Jennifer L. Ashley is a Partner at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C., focusing on personal injury and wrongful death cases involving vehicle accidents, premises liability, and products liability. She joined the firm in 2012 and was named Partner in 2014. Prior to joining the firm she spent 12 years at an auto insurance defense firm.

She has tried more than 100 cases to verdict and has been published in the Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter more than 75 times for successful verdicts. Over her career she has personally secured more than $70 million on behalf of injured clients. She also serves as a trial team coach at Chicago-Kent College of Law and is a regular arbitrator in Cook and Lake Counties.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.

These results are credited to Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Cook County jury found Sterigenics and its corporate owners liable for Sue Kamuda's breast cancer from ethylene oxide emissions and awarded $363 million, then the largest individual-plaintiff verdict in Illinois history.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2022Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Eric Johnson, a 64-year-old Missouri courier, lost consciousness and later died after carbon dioxide from dry ice-packed strawberries filled his subcompact car in 2016. His widow sued Prairie Farms Dairy for failing to warn or train him. A Madison County jury awarded $49.5 million in compensatory and $191.5 million in punitive damages in February 2026. Prairie Farms later settled with the family after the verdict.

Circuit Court of Madison County, Illinois (Edwardsville) · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$79.85 millionVerdictTop 20 in Illinois · #11

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.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$75.8 millionVerdictTop 20 in Illinois · #12

A Cook County jury awarded $75,859,000 to a baby girl left with permanent brain damage and physical injuries after doctors needlessly turned her during a twin delivery at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead 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
J.D., 1999
Western Illinois University
Undergraduate, 1995

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois, admitted 1999
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, admitted 1999
Illinois State Bar Association
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
American Association for Justice
American Bar Association
Lake County Bar Association (Director)
Lake County Bar Foundation (8-year board member)
Chicago-Kent College of Law Trial Team coach

Awards & recognition

Best Lawyers 'Lawyer of the Year', Product Liability Law, Plaintiffs (2026)
Super Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers in Illinois (2021-2025)
Super Lawyers Top 50 Female Super Lawyers in Illinois (2019-present)
Illinois Super Lawyers (2016-present)
Leading Lawyers (2016-present)
Best Lawyers, Personal Injury & Product Liability Litigation (2016-present)
CALI Awards (highest grades in three law school classes)

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