About Rob Kohen

Rob L. Kohen is a Partner at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. in Chicago, focusing on personal injury, wrongful death, car accidents, truck accidents, bicycle accidents, construction negligence, and medical malpractice. He earned a B.S. with High Honors from the University of Illinois in 2007 and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2014, where he competed on the school's nationally ranked Trial Advocacy Team and earned the CALI award. He joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard in 2014 (then 2015 as associate per ISBA) and was promoted to Partner in 2023. He has recovered more than $150 million on behalf of clients. In 2023, he received Chicago-Kent's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award.

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

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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
B.S. (High Honors), 2014
University of Illinois
Undergraduate, 2007

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Illinois State Bar Association
American Association for Justice
Chicago Bar Association
Chicago-Kent Alumni Association

Awards & recognition

Law Bulletin Media's Forty Under 40 (2021)
Chicago-Kent College of Law Outstanding Young Alumnus Award (2023)
CALI Award (law school)

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$110 million · American Eagle Flight 4184: $110 Million Crash Settlement and a Courtroom Apology
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$100 million · Willis Family Wrongful Death Settlement: $100 Million After Six Children Killed in I-94 Truck Crash
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$98.65 Million Verdict for Family of Botham Jean, Shot in His Own Apartment by Off-Duty Dallas Officer
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$64 Million Verdict for Ironworker Left Quadriplegic After 15-Foot Fall at Panduit Warehouse

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