Jaclyn J. Wilcox

Jaclyn's Areas of Practice Personal Injury Medical Malpractice Nursing Home Negligence

Jaclyn J. Wilcox joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. as an associate attorney in 2021. She concentrates her legal practice on cases involving catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, and nursing home negligence.

Prior to being named an associate attorney, Ms. Wilcox worked as a law clerk at the firm for 3 years. As a law clerk, she worked on numerous high-profile cases and trials, including assisting a trial team that obtained a $3 million wrongful death verdict in rural Illinois. Ms. Wilcox was also part of a legal team that earned a record-setting $4.5 million settlement in Walworth County, Wisconsin for a plaintiff who suffered catastrophic injuries in a school bus collision.

Ms. Wilcox received her Juris Doctor from UIC John Marshall Law School in 2020 with magna cum laude honors. During law school, Ms. Wilcox was on Moot Court Honors Council and worked as a Staff Editor for The John Marshall Law Review. In 2020, Ms. Wilcox authored an article, “Sufficiently in Conflict: The Reservation of Illinois Rule of Evidence 407,” that was published in The John Marshall Law Review.

Ms. Wilcox received her bachelor’s degree in English from Carroll University in 2017. Upon graduation from college, she earned the Gordon Folsom English Award.

Ms. Wilcox belongs to several national, state, and local legal organizations, including the Lake County Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Cook County Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the McHenry County Bar Association, and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.

In her spare time, Ms. Wilcox enjoys baking and spending time with her fiancé, Mike, and 100-pound Newfoundland dog, Wren.

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