About Kristen Stoicescu

Kristen M. Stoicescu joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.'s Chicago office as an Associate Attorney in September 2024. She concentrates her practice on mass torts, medical malpractice, personal injury, and products liability cases. Before joining the firm, she clerked for Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and worked as a litigation associate at two leading defense firms, where she represented corporate defendants in mass torts, intellectual property litigation, government investigations, commercial disputes, and bankruptcy proceedings. In law school she was an executive editor of the Northwestern University Law Review, a teaching assistant for criminal law and advanced trial advocacy, and captain of the National Trial Team, winning first place at multiple national tournaments.

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

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
J.D., with honors, 2020
Northern Illinois University
Undergraduate, 2016

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois

Awards & recognition

Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2026)
J.D. with honors, Northwestern Pritzker (2020)
National Trial Team, multiple first-place national tournament finishes
Public Interest Legal Initiative Graduate Fellow

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