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Tara Devine

Proven Verdicts
Chicago, IL22 years experience

About Tara Devine

Tara R. Devine is the Managing Partner of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.'s Lake County office. She joined the firm in 2004 and in 2011 became its first female partner; she was promoted to Managing Partner of the Lake County office in 2018. Her practice concentrates on personal injury, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and product liability cases, and she has recovered more than $325 million for clients. She served as President of the Lake County Bar Association in 2022-2023 and continues on its Board of Directors.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$115 million settlement (from a $148 million verdict)Verdict

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

Practice areas

Education

Marquette University Law School
J.D., 2003
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Undergraduate, 2000

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
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
Lake County Bar Association (Board Member; President 2022–2023)
Chicago Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association
Wisconsin State Bar Association
American Association for Justice
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Women's Bar Association of Illinois

Awards & recognition

Best Lawyers 'Lawyer of the Year' — Product Liability Litigation, Plaintiffs (2024)
Illinois Super Lawyers (2022–present)
Top 50 Female Super Lawyers in Illinois (2026)
Crain's Chicago Business 'Notable Women in Law' (2020–present)
Law Bulletin Media 'Top Women Lawyers' (2023)
Chicago Lawyer 'Gen X Leaders in Law' (2019)

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