Jeffrey J. Kroll is a Chicago, Illinois

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 based trial lawyer. He is the founding partner of the Law Offices of Jeffrey J. Kroll, which specializes in cases involving personal injury

Personal injury

Personal injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind or emotions, as opposed to an injury to property. The term is most commonly used to refer to a type of tort lawsuit alleging that the plaintiff's injury has been caused by the negligence of another, but also arises in defamation...

 and wrongful death

Wrongful death claim

Wrongful death is a claim in common law jurisdictions against a person who can be held liable for a death. The claim is brought in a civil action, usually by close relatives, as enumerated by statute...

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Early Life and Education

Jeffrey Kroll was born and raised in Brighton Park

Brighton Park, Chicago

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, a neighborhood located six miles southwest of downtown Chicago. Shortly before high school, his family moved to Orland Park, Illinois

Orland Park, Illinois

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 where he attended Marist High School and he graduated in 1982. He attended DePaul University

DePaul University

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 and graduated with degrees in Finance and Economics and also attended DePaul University for his Juris Doctorate

Juris Doctor

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, graduating in 1990.

Professional Career

Mr. Kroll founded his firm in 2007, after spending 17 years, the last seven as a partner, with the Clifford Law Offices

Clifford Law Offices

Clifford Law Offices is a personal injury law firm based in Chicago. Robert A. Clifford founded the firm in 1984. Presently, Clifford Law Offices has over twenty attorneys on staff. Firm practice areas include the following: personal injury and wrongful death include aviation, transportation,...

. Kroll has tried personal injury and wrongful death cases not only in Chicago, but in surrounding counties, downstate Illinois, and several surrounding states. Kroll's career was featured in an article in Chicago Lawyer Magazine entitled "Jeffrey Kroll: Understanding the People He Represents".

Mr. Kroll has achieved record personal injury settlements and verdicts in a wide range of areas, including car accidents, construction site accidents, trucking accidents, work place injuries and medical malpractice

Medical malpractice

Medical malpractice is professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard of practice in the medical community and causes injury or death to the patient, with most cases involving medical error. Standards and...

. He has been interviewed in media and publications such as WBBM-CBS AM780

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, CBS 2 Chicago

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, ABC 7 Chicago

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, Fox News

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, Chicago Tribune

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, Chicago Sun Times, and The National Law Bulletin. He has taught courses on Deposition Practicum at the John Marshall Law School

John Marshall Law School (Chicago)

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 and courses on medical malpractice at the DePaul University College of Law

DePaul University College of Law

DePaul University College of Law is a law school located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founded in 1897 as the Illinois College of Law, the school became part of DePaul University in 1912 and is one of the academic colleges of DePaul, a Big East Conference university. The College is known for its...

 and trial advocacy at both the Northwestern University School of Law

Northwestern University School of Law

The Northwestern University School of Law is a private American law school in Chicago, Illinois. The law school was founded in 1859 as the Union College of Law of the Old University of Chicago. The first law school established in Chicago, it became jointly controlled by Northwestern University in...

 and DePaul.

Awards

• Mr. Kroll was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers of America 2011.
• In 2002, he was selected by the The National Law Journal
  The National Law Journal
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   as one of the Top 40 Attorneys Under the Age of 40 and was the sole personal injury lawyer from the Midwest selected .
  

"Jeffrey J. Kroll may be the leader of the next generation of plaintiffs' attorneys in the Chicago area."

• For the past 8 years, Kroll has been selected by his peers as one of the Leading Attorneys in Illinois.
• He is annually selected as one of the top plaintiff's personal attorneys in Chicago Lawyer Magazine.
• For the last seven years, he has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer
• He has been selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Illinois by the American Association for Justice.
• He has served on the DePaul Board of Trustees since 2007.

Notable Cases

Some cases on which Mr. Kroll has served as an attorney for the victims of negligence:

• Rob Komosa was left a quadriplegic after a spinal injury during a 1999 high school football practice. He sued Township High School District 214 for negligence. The case was settled for $12.5 million.
• The estate of James Burroughs, a Greenville, SC man who died of colon cancer, received a jury verdict of $7 million for a medical malpractice suit. The verdict was reduced by 50% for a net verdict of $3.5 million.
• Kenneth R. Kukla was struck by a vehicle that crossed the center line, resulting in a fractured ankle, dislocated hip and a sustained limp accompanied by chronic pain. The case was settled for $6.85 million.
• Debra Jean Cunningham, 49, was struck and killed by a semi tractor trailer. Her case was settled for $1.495 million, the largest wrongful death settlement involving a car and semi-trailer for a female in Vermilion County .
• Eddie Martinez was on a blue line CTA train when it derailed in 2006. He emerged from the incident with a large gash in his right leg and emotional trauma. Martinez' was the first case to go to trial and received a jury verdict of $135,000.