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The personal injury star wins millions for med-mal and auto accident victims.
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Daniel M. Kotin is a partner at Corboy & Demetrio, and his practice involves representing individuals in personal injury and wrongful death litigation, including medical malpractice, product liability, and transportation cases. He is also involved in leadership positions on behalf of victims of mass torts arising out of fires, train derailments, airplane mishaps and other disasters.
In addition to his extensive trial practice in Illinois, Mr. Kotin has been retained on several out of state lawsuits. Most recently, he obtained a jury verdict for $9.5 million on behalf of the family of former Chicago Blackhawk player and coach Keith Magnuson who was killed in a Toronto car crash. The verdict was the largest award for a personal injury or wrongful death case in the history of St. Louis County, Missouri.
Mr. Kotin has achieved numerous multi-million dollar recoveries on behalf of clients in Chicago as well. Recently, he obtained a $17.5 million settlement on behalf of a client who was killed and three clients who were injured in the Cook County office high-rise fire in Chicago. A Cook County jury returned a $2.65 million verdict on behalf of his client, a law professor, who was injured when he was struck by a CTA bus while riding his bicycle. Several years earlier, he tried a medical negligence case that 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 Mr. Kotin’s career when he obtained a jury verdict in a negligence case against a nursing home which resulted in a final judgment of nearly $900,000. This case has become a significant appellate interpretation of the Illinois Nursing Home Act.
Mr. Kotin lectures at Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he serves as a coach of the School's National Mock Trial Team. He sits on the Board of Governors for the law school and serves as Co-Chair of its Circle of Advocates. He is a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy where he teaches trial skills to lawyers in an annual program. He is active in the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), where he currently is a member of the Finance Committee and the Tort Litigation Committee. He has also served as a director of the Young Lawyers Section and as a member of its Executive Council. Additionally, he has co-chaired the CBA's Trial Techniques Committee. Mr. Kotin is very 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 also serves on the Board of Directors of the prestigious Society of Trial Lawyers.
Mr. Kotin 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 ten times.
In 2002, Mr. Kotin was recognized and profiled by Chicago's Law Bulletin Publishing Company as one of "40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 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 has an AV rating - the highest possible for any attorney - from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
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