About Patrick Salvi Sr.

Patrick A. Salvi Sr. is the Founder and Managing Equity Partner of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C., which he established in 1982 (originally as the Law Offices of Patrick A. Salvi) in Lake County, Illinois. He concentrates his practice on serious personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and mass tort cases. Over his career, he and his firm have obtained more than $3.5 billion in verdicts and settlements, including more than 400 multi-million dollar results. He is a former President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and served as Chairman of the Character and Fitness, 2nd District Committee of the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar (2010-2012). Salvi has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, and Product Liability every year since 2005, and was inducted into the Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame in 2021.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$11.25 millionVerdict

A Winnebago County jury awarded $11.25 million to the estate of Chamicwa Black, a 33-year-old mother killed in a February 2015 crash in Rockford when an Anderson Automotive employee swerved into her lane. The company admitted negligence about a year into the case, so the six-day trial decided damages only. The jury awarded $8 million for her young son's loss of society, $3 million for his grief and mental suffering, and $250,000 for future psychiatric care.

17th Judicial Circuit Court, Winnebago County, Rockford, Illinois (No. 15 L 82, Judge J. Edward Prochaska) · 2017Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$9 millionVerdict

A Boone County, Illinois jury awarded $9 million to the family of a 52-year-old father and his 22-year-old son, both killed in March 2018 when a Consolidated Materials employee drove a Ford F550 through a stop sign in Flora. The company admitted liability before trial. It was the highest jury verdict on record in the county.

Circuit Court of Boone County, Illinois · 2020Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

University of Notre Dame Law School
J.D., 1978
St. Mary's University of Minnesota
Undergraduate, 1975

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
State Bar of Florida
State Bar of Wisconsin
State Bar of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Fellow, 2001)
American Association for Justice Leaders Forum
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (former President)

Awards & recognition

Illinois Bar Foundation Distinguished Award for Excellence (2023)
Best Lawyers in America (2005–present)
Super Lawyers Top 10 Illinois (2014–present)
Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame (2021)
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, St. Mary's University of Minnesota (1999)
B.A. cum laude, St. Mary's University of Minnesota

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