Practice Areas : Arbitration & Mediation
Practice Areas : Medical Malpractice
61 personal injury attorneys are listed in Chicago. Larger claims are heard in the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County at the Daley Center, and federal cases in the Northern District of Illinois.
Illinois applies modified comparative negligence — a claimant more than 50 percent at fault recovers nothing — and damages are reduced by whatever share of fault is assigned.
Cook County has one of the busiest civil dockets in the country, so ask about realistic timelines as well as fees: how long a case of your type typically takes to reach trial, and what the firm's practice is on mediation before that. Construction site and transit-related claims have their own procedural traps and are worth asking about specifically.