Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Trial Attorneys

1. Craig P. Mannarino
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Chicago, IL 60601
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It’s little wonder that Craig
Mannarino is considered by his
peers to be one of the top litigators in
the city.
The trial lawyer with Chicago’s
Kralovec, Jambois & Schwartz, has
compiled an impressive string of
successful verdicts and settlements for
his clients in cases involving medical
malpractice, automobile negligence
and catastrophic injury. His record of
success includes over $20 million in
jury verdicts and over $30 million in
settlements for his clients.
Attaining these victories, though,
hasn’t been easy. Mannarino works
extremely hard on every case, his
peers say, and he never enters a
courtroom unprepared.
“One immediately knows that Craig
will have extraordinary command of
the medicine and the extended factual
record,” said Richard Hickey, with the
Chicago firm of Hickey, Melia &
Associates. “He knows what answers
to expect from witnesses and has the
ability to break down witnesses in
deposition or at trial. There are many
‘good’ lawyers, but there are few
exceptional lawyers with skill and
work ethic, like Craig.”
Even a partial list of Mannarino’s
victories is remarkable. Most recently,
he was co-lead counsel on a case
resulting in a $12.5 million jury verdict
against the Chicago Police
Department for the shooting death of
a 21-year-old man. He obtained a
more than $8 million jury verdict in
a medical malpractice case for an
elderly woman who had been left
partially paralyzed after a stroke that
was caused by undiagnosed and
untreated hypertension. Additionally,
he obtained a $1.4 million verdict for
the death of an 81-year old man in a
medical malpractice case in McLean
County, one of the highest such
verdicts in that county.
Mannarino also participated in a trial
resulting in a $7.2 million verdict for
a man rendered an incomplete
quadriplegic following a shooting at
a suburban fast-food restaurant. He
participated, too, in a trial that resulted
in a McHenry County record-setting
verdict of $1.5 million in a wrongful
death malpractice case against a
mental health facility.
These results are little surprise to
those who know Mannarino.
“Some attorneys have the ability to
grasp what Dean Cribbett at the
University of Illinois College of Law
always called the ‘big picture,’ and
Craig is one of them,” said Chicago
attorney Michael Rathsack. “His legal
strength is his ability to see all the
facets of a complex case and view it
in an unbiased fashion while still
remaining a strong advocate. The first
step in winning a case is to be able to
see it like the jury will see it, and he
does that.”
Mannarino is also known as an
unflappable presence in the courtroom,
where he treats everybody, clients,
opposing counsel and judges, with
the utmost respect. This, of course, is
also beneficial to his clients, as
Mannarino is able to professionally
and efficiently lay out the facts of the
case and his own strategy for winning
that case.
“Craig has achieved a deserved
reputation as a fair and professional
litigator who treats opponents with
civility while zealously representing his
clients,” said J. Kent Mathewson, a
principal with the Chicago law firm of
Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth,
LLC. “As evidenced by his numerous
favorable verdicts and settlements of
considerable magnitude, Craig has
demonstrated that he can achieve
excellent results for his clients in
complex and challenging cases.”
For the past 8 years, Mannarino has
co-authored a chapter on jury
instructions in the Illinois Trial Lawyers
Medical Malpractice Trial Notebook.
He also recently became a member
of the Board of Managers of the
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. ,
“There are many
‘good’ lawyers, but there
are few exceptional
lawyers with skill and
work ethic, like Craig.”