Philip Harnett Corboy Jr.

Corboy’s practice centers on representing plaintiffs in aviation and construction litigation, medical and professional negligence, product and premises liability, claims brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and vehicular accident law. He has obtained more than $361 million in verdicts and settlements, and in more than 70 of them, the plaintiffs recovered $1 million or more.  These include:

• $22.5 million settlement in October 2011 for the family of a woman who was killed as a result of the derailment of a train in Rockford, IL, which was carrying dozens of Canadian National Railway cars filled with ethanol.
• $18 million settlement for a Mexican national who was killed by a piece of falling glass from Chicago's CNA Tower.
• $16.7 million verdict for a brain-damaged pedestrian involved in a collision with an automobile.
• $11 million settlement for a Chicago dental student burned in an automobile fire.
• $8.5 million settlement for the family of an assistant fire chief killed when a fire erupted at a Neiman Marcus store. 
• $8 million jury verdict for the estate of a Homewood wife and mother who was fatally struck by a truck after she stood on the shoulder of I-294 to investigate her flat tire.  
• $7.67 million jury verdict for an injured construction worker.
• $7.5 million settlement for the family of a construction worker killed in a balcony fall.
• Record-setting settlement of $7 million for a 78 year-old woman who was injured when she was struck by a malfunctioning automatic door as she entered a Target store.
• $5.35 million verdict for a limousine driver who lost his leg in an automobile incident at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
• $5.1 million settlement for a college student who was injured by a car that slid on ice from a broken water main that the City of Chicago failed to maintain. 
• $4.5 million verdict for a 66-year-old man who was injured in an auto collision in central Illinois.  

Corboy has tried cases in a number of states throughout the country and served as lead counsel in litigation on behalf of Cook County, Illinois, against the country's major tobacco companies to recoup public monies paid out for treatment of tobacco-related illnesses.  

He is a Past President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and a member of the American Association for Justice, where he served as an Illinois State delegate and on its National Board of Governors. A long-standing member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, he is also a member of the Chicago Bar Association, where he served on its Board of Managers. In 2002, he was inducted into the invitation-only American College of Trial Lawyers, the country's pre-eminent organization of trial lawyers that limits its membership to those trial lawyers who are outstanding and considered the best in their state.