Michael Ditore is a partner at Corboy & Demetrio. He practices in all areas of personal injury law and has obtained over $100 million in verdicts and settlements for his clients.
In 2022, Ditore and firm Co-founder Thomas Demetrio obtained a record-setting $42.4 million-dollar medical malpractice verdict. In 2023, along with Partner Bill Gibbs, Ditore obtained a $10.5 million wrongful death verdict for the family of a man killed during a police pursuit.
Ditore was listed in Top 50 Verdicts in Illinois in 2019 for a $2.6 million jury verdict he obtained in a medical malpractice case. In 2024, as lead counsel, Ditore obtained multiple seven-figure results, including a $7.7 million settlement for a man injured in an auto collision.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2026 | Plaintiff Litigation |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2025 | Plaintiff Personal Injury |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2025 | Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Police Chase |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2025 | Plaintiff Litigation |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2024 | Plaintiff Personal Injury |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2024 | Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Police Chase |
| The 2023 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2023 | Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Police Chase |
| Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2023 | Plaintiff Personal Injury |
In 2025 and 2026, Ditore was selected to the prestigious Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. In 2025, he was also selected to Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers and the Lawdragon 500 X - the Next Generation, a legal guide of the top 500 up-and-coming attorneys nationwide.
Prior to joining the firm, Ditore served as an Assistant State’s Attorney advocating on behalf of victims of crime. In that capacity, he litigated over 500 cases, including felony and misdemeanor jury and bench trials. Ditore worked extensively on high-level felony matters including first-degree murder cases.
Ditore graduated from Illinois State University, and thereafter received his law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he was selected as a top trial advocate in the nation.
Ditore was twice chosen to be a member of the elite Corboy Fellowship in Trial Advocacy, a scholarship and intensive trial advocacy training program awarded to only the top ten advocates at Loyola and served as the team captain. As a Corboy Fellow, Ditore was a national champion and received the prestigious Joan Marie Corboy Scholarship for Leadership and Trial Advocacy, awarded for demonstrated leadership and superior abilities in trial advocacy. After graduating from Loyola, Ditore was asked to return to Loyola as an Adjunct Professor in Trial Advocacy.
At Loyola, Ditore also participated in a program sponsored by the university that taught high school students about their constitutional rights, lecturing on common legal issues to high school students across Chicago’s South Side. Through that program, he coached the mock trial teams at Hirsch Metropolitan High School in Englewood and Richards Career Academy High School in Back of the Yards.
Ditore remains actively involved in the community, serving as a member for the Howlett Cup Committee, which facilitates an annual high school mock trial competition among a diverse group of Chicago area Catholic schools. He was appointed to serve as the Committee’s Director in 2019. He likewise served on the Young Professionals Board of the Center for Disability & Elder Law, a group that provides pro bono legal assistance to the elderly and those with disabilities.