Personal Injury Lawyers in Chicago

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.

Lawyers listed in Chicago also cover Medical Malpractice (47), Nursing Home Abuse (39) and Workers' Compensation (34). The same practice elsewhere in Illinois: Naperville (12), Bloomington (11) and Peoria (10). Across Illinois the directory lists 141 attorneys in this practice; Chicago is 1st by their number among 10 cities.