Matthew Patterson - Chicago, IL

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Honors: The John Marshall Law Review, member
    Honors: CALI Awards as the law student with the highest grade in the class
    Honors: Dean’s list

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Representative Cases

• Sauk Village family reaches $15M settlement over alleged brain damage during delivery
• Birth injury brings $15M settlement
• U. of C. hospital fails to get mistrial on case involving $53M verdict
• Jury hits U. of C. hospital with $53 million malpractice verdict
• Illinois jury awards 12-year-old $53M in birth injury case
• $53M verdict for birth injury
• $53M verdict entered over mistrial ask
• Jury Rejects ‘Mystery Infection’ Argument in Birth Injury Case
• Jury orders Chicago’s Saint Joseph Hospital to pay $23.6 million to girl who suffered brain damage at birth
• Parents of Girl With Brain Damage Sue Presence Saint Joseph Hospital For $23M

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• Minnesota
• Michigan

Other Affiliations

• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
• American Association of Justice
• Birth Trauma Litigation Group