In 1978, just after graduating from Notre Dame Law School, Patrick A. Salvi began his legal career working for his father, Albert S. Salvi, in Lake Zurich. During his first few years in practice, Mr. Salvi was primarily a general practice lawyer who represented clients in real estate and divorce matters.
In 1982, Mr. Salvi established his own law firm, The Law Office of Patrick A. Salvi, P.C., to focus his practice on his passion for trial law and helping injured victims. Within the first few years in business, Mr. Salvi won several major, groundbreaking cases. During one of his early trials, Mr. Salvi brought in an economist to prove loss of earnings, and at the time, was one of the first attorneys in Lake County to do so. This exemplified his cutting-edge tactics that would become a theme for the firm for years to come.
Through each case success, and as more clients requested his legal services, Mr. Salvi brought on more people to assist him. One of those people was his friend and business partner, the late Michael J. Schostok, who joined the firm as an associate and was later Mr. Salvi’s first partner and paved the way for the firm name transition to Salvi & Schostok P.C. in 1998. Mr. Schostok tragically passed away in 2012 after a battle with brain cancer, but his legacy lives on and his son, Michael P. Schostok, joined the firm as an attorney in 2019.
