n 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 P. 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 J. Schostok, joined the firm as an attorney in 2019.
In 1999, the firm name changed once again when attorney David Pritchard joined the team and helped establish a Chicago office. He remained with the firm until he retired in 2014.
Today, Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard has over 20 lawyers and is supported by more than 35 staff members. The firm has earned a reputation as one of the top-ranked firms in Illinois. In 2024, the firm earned the Top Spot in Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s annual settlement report, which tallies up all settlements reported by Illinois firms to the Jury Verdict Reporter and then ranks the firms based on their total settlement amount. Mr. Salvi has also become a nationally recognized attorney who has been named among the Best Lawyers in America, The Top 10 Leading Lawyers in Illinois and the Top 10 Illinois Super Lawyers. In 2021, Mr. Salvi became the 26th individual to be presented with the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s prestigious Leonard M. Ring Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors a trial lawyer who has devoted their life and legal practice to the work ethic and high professional standards of the award’s name bearer.
While his successes inside and outside the courtroom are many, Mr. Salvi is most proud and thankful for the opportunity to work alongside his family – his first-born son Patrick joined the firm in 2007 and is now the managing partner of the firm’s Chicago office; his third-born son Brian joined the firm in 2013; and his daughter-in-law, Eirene, joined the firm in 2015.
