Patrick A. Salvi

Patrick A. Salvi concentrates his legal practice in several areas primarily involving a trial practice in cases concerning serious personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death. Mr. Salvi has achieved record breaking jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients, including the state of Illinois’s largest jury verdict for an individual plaintiff, $148 million for a dancer paralyzed at O’Hare International Airport. Under his leadership, the firm has obtained more than 250 multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements totaling more than $1.5 billion on behalf of injury clients. Mr. Salvi is dedicated to helping his clients – individuals, families or corporations – providing the highest level of professional legal representation.

In 1982, Mr. Salvi founded the law firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. (originally The Law Offices of Patrick A. Salvi) in Waukegan, Illinois. He is the sole owner and Managing Equity Partner of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard. The firm has 18 lawyers and is supported by more than 30 staff members including paralegals, nurse paralegals and administrative assistants. Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard has convenient office locations in Chicago and Waukegan.

Mr. Salvi is routinely recognized as one of the most prominent attorneys in the country. He was named… Read More

Patrick A. Salvi concentrates his legal practice in several areas primarily involving a trial practice in cases concerning serious personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death. Mr. Salvi has achieved record breaking jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients, including the state of Illinois’s largest jury verdict for an individual plaintiff, $148 million for a dancer paralyzed at O’Hare International Airport. Under his leadership, the firm has obtained more than 250 multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements totaling more than $1.5 billion on behalf of injury clients. Mr. Salvi is dedicated to helping his clients – individuals, families or corporations – providing the highest level of professional legal representation.

In 1982, Mr. Salvi founded the law firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. (originally The Law Offices of Patrick A. Salvi) in Waukegan, Illinois. He is the sole owner and Managing Equity Partner of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard. The firm has 18 lawyers and is supported by more than 30 staff members including paralegals, nurse paralegals and administrative assistants. Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard has convenient office locations in Chicago and Waukegan.

Mr. Salvi is routinely recognized as one of the most prominent attorneys in the country. He was named a Best Lawyers® 2017 Plaintiff’s Personal Injury “Lawyer of the Year” in Chicago, and has been named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Woodward/White, Inc. He has also been selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers Top 10 List every year since 2014. Every year since 2016, Mr. Salvi has been named to three Leading Lawyers Magazine Top Ten Lists including “Top 10 Leading Lawyers in Illinois in All Areas of Law,” ”Top 10 Leading Consumer Lawyers in Illinois,” and “Top 10 Personal Injury Plaintiff’s Lawyers in Illinois” from a survey of legal peers conducted by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. In 2013, Mr. Salvi was appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions in Civil Cases. Additionally, Mr. Salvi was the recipient of a 2011, 2012 and 2018 Award for Trial Lawyer Excellence by The Jury Verdict Reporter and Law Bulletin Publishing Company.

Other accolades include: “Highest Rating for Legal Ability and General Recommendation” and “Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers” from Martindale Hubbell American Law Directory; member of the AAJ Leaders Forum; “The Leading American Attorneys of Illinois” from The Consumer Law Guidebook; “One of the Top Ten Personal Injury Lawyers in Illinois” and “Top 5% of all Lawyers in Illinois” from a survey of legal peers conducted by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company’s Leading Lawyers. In 2015, Mr. Salvi was also selected to the Leading Lawyers Advisory Board. In 2001, he was invited to become a fellow in the prestigious International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is also a former President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and served a three-year term (2010-2012) as Chairman on the Character and Fitness, 2nd District Committee of the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar. Additionally, Mr. Salvi is Chairman of the Law School Advisory Council and is a former Adjunct Law Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School.