Women's Bar Association of Illinois

Financial Secretary: Michelle Kohut

Michelle M. Kohut joined the law firm of Corboy & Demetrio in 2004 and practices in all areas of personal injury law, including cases arising from automobile collisions, construction negligence, premises liability and product liability. She has tried many personal injury cases to verdict in Chicago and has obtained numerous multi-million dollar settlements. After two days of trial, Michelle secured a $5 million settlement where the hospital and doctor delayed the delivery of a baby, resulting in severe brain damage. Where a roofing foreman fell through a hole in a roof, fracturing his heel, she secured a settlement of $2 million on behalf of her client. She also settled a lawsuit against a hospital for $1 million when an emergency room patient was not properly treated or diagnosed.

Michelle is very active in local and national bar associations, including the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, where she serves as Treasurer and is Chair of the Political Action Committee. She also serves as Vice-Chair on the Board of Directors for Women Everywhere, a community service project which seeks to open doors to women and children in need and to expose high school girls to challenging careers in the legal profession. Michelle has also served on the Board of Directors of Heartland International Health Center, which is dedicated to improving the health of persons living in several communities of Chicago by providing affordable, quality, multilingual, and culturally competent health services.

In 2007, she was named one of "40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch" by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company and was designated an Illinois Super Lawyer, "Rising Star," in 2008.

A graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Michelle was a Judicial Law Clerk to William D. Maddux, Presiding Judge of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, prior to joining Corboy & Demetrio.

Michelle Kohut
Corboy & Demetrio
33 N. Dearborn St., 21st Floor
Chicago, IL 60602
Phone: 312-346-3191
Fax: 312-346-5562
mmk@corboydemetrio.com
http://www.corboydemetrio.com

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