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Rob L. Kohen joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. in 2014 and was promoted to Partner in 2023. He focuses his practice on personal injury, wrongful death, car accidents, truck accidents, bicycle accidents, construction negligence, and medical malpractice. Mr. Kohen has obtained a number of noteworthy verdicts and settlements in his time with the firm. In 2021, Mr. Kohen was part of a trial team that obtained a $21.05 million jury verdict on behalf of a woman who suffered a thoracic spine injury in a Maywood, Ill. car crash. In 2020, Mr. Kohen obtained a $20.5 million settlement on behalf of a man who was paralyzed and later died after the driver of a semi-truck fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into his home. The same year, Mr. Kohen obtained a $15 million settlement for a motorcyclist who lost his leg in a car crash. In one of his first trials with the firm, Mr. Kohen was part of a trial team that won a $15.3 million jury verdict on behalf of an Army veteran who was injured at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center. He also took a heavily disputed liability and causation case to trial that settled on the day of closing arguments for the $300,000 policy limits. In recognition of his outstanding legal work, Mr. Kohen was named to Law Bulletin Media’s 2021 Forty Under 40 list. He has also been recognized every year since 2021 as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch honoree and has been named a Rising Star by Illinois Super Lawyers every year since 2018. Mr. Kohen has also been recognized as an Emerging Lawyer by Law Bulletin Media, an honor given to the top 2% of lawyers in Illinois who are under 40 years old or have practiced 10 years or less. Before joining Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C., Mr. Kohen served as a law clerk at another prominent Plaintiff’s personal injury law firm in Chicago for two-and-a-half years. Mr. Kohen is a graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and won their 2024 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, which recognizes an alumnus/alumna who graduated from Chicago-Kent within the past 10 years and has made an outstanding contribution to the practice of law, the judiciary, or the media, among other reasons. While at Chicago-Kent, he competed in the American Association for Justice’s Student Trial Advocacy Competition as a member of the law school’s nationally ranked Trial Advocacy Team. He also earned the CALI award for achieving the highest grade in an individual class. Since graduating, Mr. Kohen has been invited numerous times to speak to current Chicago-Kent students on medical malpractice and personal injury law. In his free time, Mr. Kohen is a highly accomplished athlete. He is currently ranked in the top 5 percent overall as an All-World Ironman Age Group Athlete. Since 2011, he has been a six-time Ironman 70.3 finisher, three-time USA Age Group National Championship finisher, two-time Ironman finisher, and two-time marathon finisher. Additional credentials and distinctions include membership in the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Chicago Bar Association, and the Chicago-Kent Alumni Association.

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