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CHICAGO – Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard founder and managing equity partner Patrick A. Salvi Sr. was recently interviewed on the Personal Injury Mastermind Podcast to share his insight from his legal career of over four decades. In the episode, he discusses how managing partners can hire great lawyers for their…

Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard attorneys Patrick A. Salvi II, Lance D. Northcutt and Jennifer M. Cascio authored an article on their record-breaking $363 million verdict for the American Bar Association Journal’s “How I Won the Case” series. In the article, the attorneys discuss how they exposed three decades of misdeeds…

CHICAGO – Illinois-based Salvi Schostok & Pritchard PC announced this week the addition of three new partners, including one joining the firm from personal injury firm Wise Morrissey LLC. In a press release issued earlier this week, the firm announced that effective February 14, it had promoted associates Rob L….

CHICAGO – On May 4, 2022, a driver fatally struck Nick Parlingayan, 22, on his bike near the intersection of Milwaukee and Kilbourn avenues in the Irving Park neighborhood, and leaving without aiding the barista. A wrongful death lawsuit, recently filed on behalf of Parlingayan’s family, argues that Metra and…

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (February 17, 2023) – Illinois Super Lawyers has named Libertyville resident and attorney Jennifer Ashley as an Illinois Super Lawyer for 2023. In addition, Ashley was listed among the Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyers and the Top 50 female attorneys for 2023. Please click here to read the…

CHICAGO (February 8, 2023) – On May 4, 2022, a hit-and-run car crash killed 22-year-old Nick Parlingayan on the city’s Northwest Side, raising safety concerns among other cyclists. Almost nine months later on Jan. 30, the Parlingayan family’s attorneys at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard filed a lawsuit against Metra, the…

“Thank you, Larry, for everything you have done for the organization, for your clients, for all our clients, for the future clients of Illinois trial lawyers, and for society. Now, we must remain standing on your shoulders and carry your life’s work forward. We learned so much from you. May…

CHICAGO – Public safety and deterring negligent conduct have long been considered underlying purposes of tort law. Johnson v. Equipment Specialists, Inc., 58 Ill. App. 3d 133 (4th Dist. 1978). This was reiterated by the First District in Jarosz v. Buona Cos., LLC, 2022 IL App (1st) 210181. Encouraging due…

Chicago – The families of the three women who died of heat exposure in their senior living apartment complex in Rogers Park during a heat wave last May have accepted a $16 million settlement. The settlement was reported in Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

CHICAGO – The Chicago Transit Authority has agreed to pay a $20 million settlement to a 59-year-old woman who was hit and dragged by a bus in Streeterville more than three years ago. Plaintiff Diane Schachner’s lawsuit against the agency had been scheduled for trial in March until a settlement…