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Daniel M. Kotin
Corboy & Demetrio
33 North Dearborn St.
21st Floor
Chicago, IL 60602
312-346-3191 (direct)
312-346-3191 (firm)
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Daniel M. Kotin is a partner and personal injury trial lawyer at the Chicago law firm of Corboy & Demetrio. He is an experienced personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice attorney and his practice includes representing individuals in transportation, product liability, and medical negligence cases. As a result of his vast experience, he has attained leadership positions on Steering Committees and has been appointed Lead Counsel on mass tort litigation arising from fires, train derailments, airplane accidents and other disasters.

Dan has achieved numerous multi-million dollar jury verdicts on behalf of clients. Several of these verdicts have been noteworthy for their amount and legal significance. Recently, he obtained a $29.6 million verdict on behalf of a woman who suffered brain injuries in the derailment of a Metra train. The verdict is the largest in Illinois for an individual injured in a mass transit crash. In 2008, he secured a $9.5 million verdict on behalf of the family of former Chicago Blackhawk hockey player and coach Keith Magnuson who was killed in a Toronto car crash. That verdict is the largest award for a personal injury or wrongful death case in the history of St. Louis County, Missouri. Several years earlier, he tried a medical negligence case which resulted in a $10 million verdict, one of the ten largest medical malpractice verdicts ever handed down in Cook County at that time. Another trial of note took place early in Dan's career when he obtained a jury verdict in a negligence case against a nursing home that resulted in a significant appellate interpretation of the Illinois Nursing Home Act. In 2008, Dan obtained a $17.5 million settlement on behalf of the family of a woman who was killed and three others who were injured in the high-rise fire in the Cook County Administration Building. The lawsuit settled on the day of jury selection.

Outside of the courtroom, Dan is involved in multiple legal and civic organizations. He is on the faculty at Loyola University School of Law where he teaches a course on Civil Procedure and serves as a coach of the School's National Mock Trial Team. He also sits on the Board of Governors for the law school and serves as a Co-Chair of its Circle of Advocates. He is on the faculty at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy where he teaches trial skills to lawyers in an annual program. He is very involved with the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), where he sits on the Board of Managers and serves on the Association’s Finance Committee. Over the years, he has chaired multiple committees of the CBA and served as the director of its Young Lawyers Section. Dan is also involved in the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, where he is a member of the Board of Managers and was previously the Chairman of the Association's Seminar Planning Committee. He is also a member of the prestigious Society of Trial Lawyers where he currently serves as secretary. Dan also serves on boards of various charitable organizations, including Catholic Charities of Chicago, and Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth.

Dan has testified at public hearings regarding proposed changes in Supreme Court Rules. He regularly lectures at various bar association and interest group seminars and has published chapters and articles in legal books, periodicals and newspapers. To date, he has presented at more than fifty legal programs and has been published more than a twenty times.

In addition to being frequently consulted by the media as a legal expert on contemporary legal issues and cases, Dan is regularly interviewed about the lawsuits he has handled as a personal injury lawyer. He has appeared on numerous television and radio news and talk programs, including, Fox News, ABC, NBC, CBS, WGN TV and Radio, and WBBM News Radio 780.

In 2002, Dan was recognized and profiled by Chicago's Law Bulletin Publishing Company as one of "40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch," and honored by the Lawdragon as one of "500 New Stars, New World," in 2006. He is currently profiled as one of the Top 5% of Civil Trial Lawyers in Illinois by the Leading Lawyers Network, has been designated an "Illinois Super Lawyer" and maintains an AV rating - the highest possible rating for any attorney - from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.

Honors

AV rating, Martindale-Hubbell - Highest level awarded for professional excellence
Illinois Super Lawyers - Top 5% of all Illinois attorneys
Leading Lawyers Network Member - Top 5% of all Illinois attorneys
“New Stars, New World,” Honoree, Lawdragon, 2006
“40 Under 40 Illinois Attorneys to Watch,” 2002
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Board of Governors
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Circle of Advocates
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, President’s Society

Professional Affiliations

American Bar Association (ABA)
American Association for Justice (AAJ) formerly known as Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA)
Chicago Bar Association (CBA), Board of Managers, 2009-Present; Board of Directors of CBA Administrators, Inc., 2008-Present; Finance Committee, 2007-Present; Tort Litigation Committee, Legislative Liaison, 2007-Present, Subcommittee on voir dire procedures, 1994; Judicial Evaluation Committee, Investigator, 2003; Chicago Bar Foundation Fall Benefit, Steering Committee 2003; Television Committee, Vice-Chair, 2000; Young Lawyers Section, Director, 1996-1998, Executive Council, 1994-1998, Planning Committee, 1995-1998; Special Project Coordinator, 1995-1996; House Committee, 1995, Trial Techniques Committee, 1993-2001, Chairman, 1994-1995
Chicago - Lincoln Inn of Court, 2010-Present
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA), Board of Managers, 2001-Present; Board of Advocates, 2000, Seminar Planning Co-Chair, 2002-2004; Publications Committee, 1994-1996
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Adjunct Faculty, 1998-Present; Board of Governors, 2008-Present, Secretary 2010-Present; Circle of Advocates, 2002-Present, Co-Chairman, 2006-Present, Advisory Board, 2005-Present; President's Society, 2006-Present; Dean's Circle, 2005-Present; Class Representative, 1996-Present
Society of Trial Lawyers, 2002-Present; Secretary, 2010-Present, Treasurer, 2009-2010; Board of Directors, 2003-2006
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (TLPJ)
National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Faculty, 2000-Present
Public Interest Law Initiative, Board Member, 2010-Present
Women's Bar Association of Illinois, 2009-Present

Community Involvement

Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Chicago, Board of Advisors, 2009-Present
Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Chicago, North Regional Advisory Board, 2009-Present
Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth, Secretary, 2010-Present, Board of Directors, 2009-Present
Sacred Heart School Board, President, 2010-Present, Secretary, 2008-2010
Kenilworth Winnetka Baseball Association, Coach, 2008-Present
AYSO Soccer, Coach, 2004-Present

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Education

Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D. cum laude, 1991
Boston College, B.A. cum laude, 1988
National Institute for Trial Advocacy Midwest Regional Program, 1994

Bar & Court Admissions

U.S. Supreme Court, 2009
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Trial Bar, 1998
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1991
Illinois, 1991

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