EDITORIAL REVIEW00
Demetrio demonstrated his mastery again by landing a $29.6M verdict
for a young Chicago woman who suffered grave injuries when a Rock
Island Metra train derailed and hit her.
—2008 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
The lion of Chicago's trial bar is challenging security failures at the Grand Hyatt in Amman, Jordan, which allegedly allowed Al-Qaeda members to detonate a bomb, killing a renowned Hollywood film director and his daughter.
— Lawdragon,
January 2008
Stands alone atop the Chicago
trial bar for 100 million reasons, including the biggest injury verdict upheld by Illinois supremes.
— Lawdragon,
February 2007
Chicago’s top trial lawyer is holding the White
Sox’s feet to the fire over their treatment of Frank Thomas.
— Lawdragon,
October 2006
The powerhouse of aviation and medmal owns the largest compensatory award for an individual ever upheld by the state high court.
— Lawdragon,
March 2006
Thomas Demetrio has earned his reputation as one of the best personal-injury lawyers in the country with a consistent string of multimillion recoveries for clients during three decades in practice. The star of the Chicago plaintiffs' bar is adept at securing big settlements and taking cases all the way to a jury verdict. The $22 million verdict he won on a behalf of a woman rendered quadriplegic from a car accident is the largest of its kind upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court. Demetrio has continued his winning ways since that landmark 1997 decision, nailing down a $25.2 million settlement for the family of a man who perished in a USAir crash outside Pittsburgh. In September 2005, he reached a $16 million settlement for the family of a Northwestern University football player who died of an asthma attack during practice.
This attorney is a member of the prestigious International Academy of Trial Lawyers.
— Lawdragon,
October 2005
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Thomas A. Demetrio is a trial lawyer with an emphasis on medical negligence, airplane crash, product liability and commercial litigation on behalf of plaintiffs. He is Past President of the Chicago Bar Association and Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.
He is a fellow of: The American College of Trial Lawyers, The International Academy of Trial Lawyers and The Inner Circle of Advocates.
Tom has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since its inception in 1987; and, in 1990, was named by the National Law Journal as one of the Nation's Top Ten Trial Lawyers. In 1999, Tom was listed first by the National Law Journal in its list of the top ten trial lawyers in Illinois. Since 2003, Tom has been voted by his peers in the top ten of the top 5% of all lawyers in Illinois, and in 2007 and 2008, he was named in the top five of the state's 80,000 lawyers.
Since its inception in 2005, Tom has been named by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America and the "powerhouse" of aviation and medical negligence law. In 2006, Lawdragon said of Tom, "In the windy city, he's the name for everything from medical malpractice claims to aviation disasters. When tragedy strikes, the families of plane crash victims have no greater ally." Lawdragon concluded that Tom was "Chicago's top trial lawyer," and in 2007, stated that Tom "stands alone atop the Chicago trial bar."
He has done extensive teaching and lecturing worldwide in the field of trial techniques and has authored numerous continuing legal education articles in the field of civil litigation.
Tom has acquired over $100 million in jury verdicts, including the largest personal injury verdict ever upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court.
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