CHICAGO (September 6, 2022) – Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, P.C. is pleased to announce Partners Tara R. Devine and Jennifer L. Ashley have been named to Crain’s Custom Media’s “2022 Notable Women in Law” list.
Each year, Crain’s Custom Media features a group of influential and impressive attorneys from around the Chicago area. This year’s list includes 140 women who “brilliantly illustrate the sheer power of women in law. They advise and shepherd headline-making financial deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They mentor women at their firms and those who aspire to a career in law, and advocate for people underrepresented in and sometimes overlooked by the field,” Crains states in the official announcement.
Please click here to read the full list of this year’s honorees.
Ms. Devine started her career with Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard as a law clerk in 2004 and was named the firm’s first female partner in 2011. In 2018, she was promoted to Managing Partner of the firm’s Lake County office. Currently, she serves as the President of the Lake County Bar Association. Ms. Devine has dedicated her career to fighting for justice for her clients. She concentrates her practice in the areas of catastrophic personal injury, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and product liability cases. In 2017, she obtained a $148 million jury verdict on behalf of a young woman who was paralyzed by a collapsed pedestrian shelter at O’Hare Airport. The verdict is the highest jury verdict ever awarded to an individual plaintiff in the state of Illinois.
Crain’s Notable Women in Law | Tara R. Devine
Ms. Ashley joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard in 2012 and was named Partner in 2014. Since joining the firm, she has personally secured over $60 million on behalf of her injured clients. Ms. Ashley concentrates her legal practice in the areas of personal injury and wrongful death cases that involve car accidents, premises liability and products liability. She has tried well over 100 cases to verdict before a jury and has been published in the Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter more than 75 times for successful resolutions of personal injury cases. In recognition of her outstanding legal work, Ms. Ashley has been selected as an Illinois Super Lawyer every year since 2016 and has been listed among the Top 100 Super Lawyers and the Top 50 Female Super Lawyers in the state of Illinois.
Crain’s Notable Women in Law | Jennifer L. Ashley
For more information or to schedule an interview with Ms. Devine and Ms. Ashley, please contact Marcie Mangan at mmangan@salvilaw.com or (312) 372-1227.
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