During her years of practice, Lorna Propes has tried nearly 100 jury trials in a wide variety of cases. While best known as a plaintiff’s lawyer representing individuals in personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice cases, Lorna has also represented corporations targeted in mass tort medical device litigation. For example, she served as lead trial counsel defending the Dow Chemical Company in a class action lawsuit alleging injury from silicone breast implants.

In 1999, Lorna was profiled in Chicago Lawyer’s Million Dollar Settlement Survey after settling two medical malpractive cases totaling $10.6 million, ranking her fifth among individual attorneys.

Lorna has earned a national reputation as a teacher and lecturer in trial advocacy. Both in the classroom and the courtroom, Lorna utilizes the newest technologies and persuasive techniques to best present her client’s case.

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Contact Lorna at: info@pktrialaw.com

 

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$3.4 Million verdict against defendant doctor for negligently cutting the common bile duct during surgery to remove the plaintiff's gall bladder.
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$5.25 Million verdict against defendant doctors and their practice for failing to timely diagnose cervical cancer in a thirty-six year old woman.
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$5.7 Million verdict awarded to 52 year old man who suffered massive head to toe injuries after the van he was driving was hit head-on by the defendant's landscaping vehicle.
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$1.5 Million settlement in a product liability case for a 28 year old man who suffered a below the elbow amputation of his arm while doing maintenance work on elevator cables.
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Named one of Chicago's "30 Tough Lawyers" by Chicago magazine, 2002.
   
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