About Timothy Cronin

Timothy M. Cronin is a trial lawyer who has recovered more than $800 million for injury victims across a career focused on medical malpractice, product liability, premises liability, trucking litigation, and catastrophic personal injury. In 2024, he served as lead trial counsel in the $535 million verdict for a sexual-assault victim at a behavioral health facility, the largest verdict in Illinois state history for a single plaintiff. In 2016, he was lead counsel in a $17.6 million verdict that helped drive reform to opioid prescribing practices nationwide. In 2018, he was chief trial lawyer in a $12.5 million verdict for Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush against Stan Kroenke and the Rams, and secured an $18.26 million verdict for a child discharged from a hospital three times while suffering from E. coli.

In 2025, he served as co-counsel in a $27.5 million verdict for a motorcyclist injured in Illinois. He has obtained verdicts or settlements exceeding $1 million for clients on 50 separate occasions. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law. He serves as an adjunct professor in Trial Advocacy at Saint Louis University School of Law and received the Missouri Bar Foundation's Lon O. Hocker Award in 2022.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$16.74 millionVerdict

A St. Louis jury found Dr. Henry Walden and Saint Louis University negligent for escalating opioid prescriptions to a chronic back pain patient, who received more than 37,000 pills between 2008 and 2012. The jury awarded compensatory damages to the patient and his wife and $15 million in punitive damages. Applying the jury's 33 percent fault finding against the patient, the judgment stood at about $16.74 million, and the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed it in 2017.

St. Louis City Circuit Court, Missouri (Judge Michael Noble) · 2016Medical 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

Saint Louis University School of Law
J.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
State Bar of Missouri

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Cantor Injury Law
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$119.5 million · $462 Million Verdict After Fatal Underride Crash Killed Two Young Fathers
The Bruning Law Firm
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$24 Million Federal Class-Action Settlement for St. Louis Rams PSL Holders
Cofman Townsley Attorneys at Law
Cofman Townsley Attorneys at Law
$247.3 million · St. Charles County Jury Awards $247.3 Million to Six Women Sexually Assaulted at Oasis Foot Spa

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