Bradley N. Pollock

Bradley N. Pollock has been successfully representing people hurt or killed by the wrongful conduct of others for more than twenty-five years. He has secured numerous record-setting financial recoveries for his clients both at trial and through settlement, which have been featured in the news. Brad began his legal career in 1995 working as an insurance defense attorney in Chicago. He then elected to switch sides taking his defense experience and using it for the benefit of his injured plaintiff clients. Since that time, Mr. Pollock has dedicated himself to obtaining justice for his clients and, at the same time, promoting change to prevent future unnecessary injury or loss of life.

Brad concentrates his legal practice in areas that include: wrongful death; catastrophic personal injury; traumatic brain injury; transportation/motor vehicle collisions; construction injuries; medical malpractice; products liability; premises liability; and nursing home neglect and abuse.

The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Mr. Pollock, by order of the Court, to serve: (1) on its Supreme Court Character and Fitness Committee for the Second District of Illinois from 2010-2020 (acting as its Chair from 2013 to 2017); (2) on its Supreme Court Civil Jury Instruction Committee; and (3) as one of nine attorneys on the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) Review Board.

The legal community has also recognized Mr. Pollock’s accomplishments. In 2018 Brad was selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as one of the lawyers on its ‘The Top 100’ list in Illinois for 2018 and 2019. ‘The Top 100’ list consists of 100 lawyers selected from all areas of the legal practice throughout the State of Illinois. With over 90,000 lawyers in Illinois, it is quite a distinction. In 2016, Mr. Pollock was named “Lawyer of the Year” by the DuPage County Bar Association. Brad has been selected by his peers in Illinois as a “Super Lawyer” in personal injury since 2008 (a distinction given to less than 5% of lawyers in his field). A survey of Illinois lawyers conducted by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company has also named him a “Leading Lawyer” in personal injury (limited to less than 5% of lawyers in his field). Brad has been chosen as a “Top 100 Trial Lawyer” by the National Trial Lawyers since 2013. He also holds a “Superb” rating from AVVO.

Brad also serves on the Illinois State Bar Association Tort Section Council (acting as Chair from 2016-2017) and on the Civil Practice Section Council. At the request of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brad acted as the lawyer (general counsel) for the legal organization from 2011-2013 and again from 2018-2020. He is a Past President of the American Inns of Court, Robert E. Jones Chapter. Brad has given numerous lectures to fellow attorneys in the area of injury law, including outside of the State of Illinois. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Midwestern University and as a member of the College of DuPage Paralegal Studies Advisory Council.

Results

• Some examples of Mr. Pollock’ s noteworthy results include:
• $18.6 million recovery in Cook County for a Chicago construction worker who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling from defective construction equipment.
• $7.3 million medical malpractice verdict in Cook County following a surgeon’ s failure to completely remove a woman’ s benign facial tumor (co-counsel).
• $7 million recovery in Cook County for a union pipefitter that suffered knee injuries while working in muddy conditions.
• $5.7 million recovery in DuPage County for a spinal cord injury following a spinal surgery (co-counsel).
• $5.35 million in Cook County for a fractured leg resulting from a golf cart rollover resulting in part from an unsafe cart path.
• $3.125 million record recovery in DuPage County for an ankle injury following a golf cart vehicle rollover accident.
• $3.1 million medical negligence recovery in Cook County on behalf of 5-year-old girl following the misplacement of a central venous catheter resulting in stroke.
• $2.55 million in DuPage County for a young woman injured by an unattended motor vehicle that struck and severely injured her leg.
• $2.5 million medical malpractice verdict in Cook County for a man that experienced hearing loss and imbalance following a failed ear surgery (co-counsel).
• $1.75 medical malpractice recovery in Cook County resulting from a delay in diagnosis of an occluded artery in the patient’s leg following a surgical procedure that resulted in nerve damage.
• $1.75 million medical malpractice recovery in DuPage County resulting from a delay in diagnosis of prostate cancer.
• $1.5 million resolution of DuPage County medical malpractice wrongful death cause of action involving the death of a 2-day old prematurely born infant.
• $1.1 million record medical malpractice verdict in Will County on behalf of an 82-year-old woman that sustained a nerve injury during an endoscopic carpal tunnel surgery.
• $1.1 million medical malpractice recovery for a boy that suffered a facial nerve injury following surgery to remove a benign tumor.
• $1 million recovery in a Cook County motor vehicle death.
• $1 million recovery for an elderly man that tripped over an improper curb suffering a head injury.
• $1 million recovery for a woman that tripped over an exposed bolt in the floor of a Chicagoland retail store and suffered a head injury.
• $950,000 recovery in Kane County for a 92-year-old female resident of a supportive living facility that was caused to fall following a medication error which resulted in her death.
• $925,000 medical malpractice recovery for a gangrenous toe resulting from a post-surgical wrap that had been applied too tightly.