Eirene N. Salvi joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. in 2016 and concentrates her legal practice on cases involving medical malpractice, personal injury, and product liability.
In her time with the firm, she has recovered more than $450 million on behalf of her clients.
Ms. Salvi has obtained a number of noteworthy verdicts and settlements. In her first trial with the firm, Ms. Salvi won an $11.25 million jury verdict on behalf of a mother who was killed in a car crash. In 2017, Ms. Salvi was part of a trial team that won a record-setting $148 million jury verdict on behalf of a dancer paralyzed by a collapsed pedestrian shelter at O’Hare International Airport. The verdict is the highest compensatory verdict ever awarded to an individual plaintiff in the state of Illinois.
Ms. Salvi is currently the President of the board of Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth, an organization that channels the legal community’s resources to promote one-to-one mentoring and tutoring programs in disadvantaged Chicago communities. In 2024, she was selected by Justice Joy V. Cunningham of the Supreme Court of Illinois to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court’s Judicial Selection Committee, which will focus its efforts on evaluating the qualifications of Supreme Court’s First District – Cook County appointees. In 2023, Ms. Salvi was appointed to a 2-year term (2024 – 2026) on the Illinois Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism, which uses education to promote the ideals of professionalism in the legal and judicial systems. Additionally, Ms. Salvi serves on the Board of Managers for the Chicago Bar Association and on the Diversity & Inclusion Committee of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, which aims to develop strategies and programs to increase minority membership and participation in leadership roles and joint programs with other minority bar associations.
In 2022, Ms. Salvi was appointed to the Young Professionals Board of the Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF), a group dedicated to helping the CBF improve access to justice for people in need and making the legal system more fair and efficient for everyone.
Ms. Salvi is a founding member and former co-chair of the Chicago Committee of the Japanese American Bar Association (JABA). The group provides a special forum for members of the legal profession with interests and ties to the Japanese American community to discuss issues, network, and serve the community. Ms. Salvi is also an officer of the board of JABA Educational Foundation, which provides scholarships to law students and recent grads.
Ms. Salvi received her law degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2015 and received her Bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in European History from Pacific Union College in 2011. During law school, Ms. Salvi became involved in plaintiffs’ justice and human rights issues when she assisted a professor in writing an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the families of victims of terrorism against the Islamic State of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. She also served as an extern for the National Immigrant Justice Center. She was successful in filing an application for humanitarian parole for the victims of gross human rights violations in the Central Democratic Republic of Congo. During her time at Notre Dame Law School, she also served as Vice President of the Asian Law Students Association and was active in the Black Law Students Association and Hispanic student groups. Her academic accomplishments include receiving an academic scholarship to the University of Notre Dame and membership in Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society.
Ms. Salvi speaks Spanish, Japanese, and French.
Additional credentials and distinctions include membership in the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Illinois State Bar Association, American Association for Justice, Chinese American Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the Chicago Bar Association.
Outside of work, she is focused on raising two little citizens of the world and checking off travel-related bucket list items with her husband and fellow Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. attorney, Brian L. Salvi.
