
Stephen Phillips
VerifiedAbout Stephen Phillips
Stephen D. Phillips is the managing partner at Phillips Law Offices in Chicago, where he has secured record verdicts and settlements for injured people and families in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. He has obtained multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements in automobile, trucking, medical malpractice, product liability, construction, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. He is past President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and remains on its executive committee. Phillips was inducted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (limited to 500 attorneys worldwide) in 2011 and the International Society of Barristers in 2020.
Notable case results
A Lake County jury awarded $25 million to Patricia Amsden after her husband Phillip was struck and killed on Interstate 65 by a driver with a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, holding the driver, his employer, and two bars that served him accountable.
A Coles County jury awarded Mark Allen $14 million after Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center failed to diagnose a spinal epidural abscess across three emergency visits, leaving him with permanent spinal cord injuries.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.


