Philip Corboy, Jr.

As a partner at Corboy & Demetrio, P.C., Philip Harnett Corboy, Jr. is dedicated to representing clients in Chicago, Cook County and throughout the country. He commits his practice to personal injury cases that involve the following matters: construction litigation, medical and professional negligence, wrongful death, aviation litigation, claims brought under the Federal Employers Liability Act, product liability, premises liability, railroad negligence and vehicular accidents. Philip Corboy, Jr. joined Corboy & Demetrio in 1985 after serving as a “first chair” prosecutor in the criminal division of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, where he worked for seven years. Mr. Corboy is a highly accomplished trial lawyer as he has settled or tried to verdict more than 65 cases in which plaintiffs have recovered $1 million or more. Mr. Corboy has tried cases in a number of states throughout the country and served as lead counsel in litigation on behalf of Cook County, Illinois, against the country's major tobacco companies to recoup public monies paid out for treatment of tobacco-related illnesses. He is a past President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and a member of the American Association for Justice, where he served as an Illinois State delegate and on its National Board of Governors. A long-standing member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, he is also a member of the Chicago Bar Association, where he served on its Board of Managers. In 2002, Mr. Corboy was inducted into the invitation-only American College of Trial Lawyers, the country's pre-eminent organization of trial lawyers that limits its membership to those trial lawyers who are outstanding and considered the best in their state. Mr. Corboy is widely recognized by his peers as one of the top attorneys in the state of Illinois.  He has attained the designation of Super Lawyer for the 19th year in a row, which is awarded to fewer than 5% of lawyers in the state.  Super Lawyers also named Corboy as one of the Top 100 Illinois lawyers in 2023 for a 11th year. Mr. Corboy has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America for his work in representing victims of personal injury every year since 2006, and Corboy & Demetrio has been named in Best Law Firms in America every year since the directory's inception. In addition, since 2003, the Leading Lawyers Network has named Mr. Corboy in the top 5% of all attorneys in Illinois, also naming him to Top Ten Product Liability Attorneys-Plaintiff's in 2019. Since 2015, Mr. Corboy has been named to Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, which is an elite group of the best legal minds in our country, including all sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justices.  He has been selected to Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers since the award's inception in 2019.   He was profiled in, "Lawyer Limelight: Philip Harnett Corboy, Jr.," in the 2021 Edition of Lawdragon Magazine. Also, since 2015, Mr. Corboy has been named to the prestigious Irish Legal 100, whose highly selected members are the 100 leading lawyers nationwide of Irish descent. Mr. Corboy is a past President of the Board of Directors of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, now called "Legal Aid Chicago," Illinois’ largest legal aid program for low income people. Mr. Corboy is the 2011-2012 recipient of the DePaul University College of Law Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest distinction the College of Law can bestow. He was re-appointed by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin to a screening committee to assist the Senator in selecting Federal District Court Judges, U.S. Attorneys, and U.S. Marshals for the Northern District of Illinois.  Mr. Corboy has also been appointed to the Equal Justice Illinois Campaign Blue-Ribbon Committee where he is working to increase state funding of civil legal aid so that all Illinois residents, regardless of income, have access to the justice system. Mr. Corboy is a frequent panelist and lecturer to local, state and national bar associations and is quoted extensively in news stories on matters relating to law and government. He has been interviewed and quoted in every print and broadcast media outlet in Chicago and the greater Chicago land area, as well as making appearances and offering commentary on legal issues nationally on the Today Show, The Early Show with Bryant Gumbel, Good Morning America, Court-TV, MSNBC and Fox News' The Edge with Paula Zahn. He has also been quoted on legal topics in Time Magazine, Lawyer's Weekly U.S.A., Of Counsel, Chicago Magazine, Inside Litigation, Crain's Chicago Business, The ABA Journal, General Surgery News, and others. Mr. Corboy devotes much of his time to charitable and not-for-profit endeavors. In 2018, Mr. Corboy was elected to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation (USOPF) Board of Directors.  Previously, he served as a Trustee of USOPF and helped raise critical financial resources that enabled the U.S. Olympic Committee to make investments in areas promoting excellence and innovation for Team USA. He served on the Board of Illinois Variety Club's International Children's Charity for a number of years and served as Vice-President of The Chicago Lighthouse, one of the country's oldest organizations for people who are blind or visually impaired. Mr. Corboy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the President's Club of DePaul University and a member of the Dean's Council of DePaul's law school. Read more about Corboy & Demetrio: Charitable Giving History of the Chicago law firm