Patrick A. Salvi

Patrick A. Salvi – Managing Equity Partner of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.

Patrick A. Salvi concentrates his legal practice in several limited 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 a record high $33 million jury verdict. Mr. Salvi and his law firm have obtained more than $900 million in verdicts and settlements on behalf of injury clients, including 200 multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements of $1 million of more.

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 16 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 selected in 2014 to the Illinois Super Lawyers Top 10 List, out of all of the lawyers in Illinois and named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Woodward/White, Inc. 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 and 2012 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 Network.  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 an Adjunct Law Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

• U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit (1993)
• Wisconsin Bar (1985)
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin (1985)
• Florida Bar (1979)
• Illinois Bar (1978)
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Federal Trial Bar (1978)

• J.D., University of Notre Dame Law School (1978)

• B.A., Cum Laude, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota (1975)

• Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota (1999)