Dennis M. Lynch is a distinguished trial attorney who has secured record-setting verdicts and multi-million dollar settlements for injury victims across Illinois and nationwide.
With a proven track record of taking on the world’s largest corporations and insurance companies, Dennis has established himself as a formidable advocate in all areas of personal injury litigation, including construction accidents, railroad injuries, interstate trucking, insurance bad faith claims, products liability, workers’ compensation, nursing home litigation, and medical malpractice.
A magna cum laude graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Dennis’s commitment to justice began early in his career when he started working at a personal injury law firm as an undergraduate. While at Loyola Law, he distinguished himself as a member of the Law Journal, served as Symposium Editor of the Consumer Law Review, and earned awards for Academic Excellence in Evidence, Advanced Evidence, and Illinois Litigation.
His appellate work has shaped Illinois law, including a landmark case involving the traveling employee doctrine in workers’ compensation litigation. Dennis continues to make significant contributions to the legal community through his leadership roles in prestigious organizations.
He serves on the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice’s Interstate Trucking Litigation Group and is a past Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Tort Law Section Council. He is also a member of the Society of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only group of Illinois’s top trial lawyers.
Dennis regularly shares his expertise by lecturing at Loyola University Chicago School of Law on construction law and personal injury litigation. His insights are frequently sought after by organizations such as the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice, and the Illinois State Bar Association.
- >$33,000,000 settlement (post judgement interest on a $30,000,000 verdict) for double fatality in Winnebago County – the highest verdict ever in the county
- $13,000,000 settlement for a 30-year-old carpenter’s helper who sustained a spinal cord injury when a wall collapsed during townhome construction
- $11,000,000 settlement for burn injuries related to an apartment explosion
- $9,000,000 wrongful death settlement during closing arguments of a trucking case
- $7,900,000 settlement in an insurance bad faith failure to settle case – highest reported settlement in that category per JVR
- $7,000,000 settlement for a workplace fatality – recognized by the Jury Verdict Reporter with a 2023 Trial Lawyer Excellence Award as Will County’s highest work injury settlement
- $6,785,000 settlement for a bricklayer who suffered a cervical fracture requiring fusion surgery after materials fell on his head due to OSHA violations
- $6,500,000 total recovery for a quadriplegic injury in a residential swimming pool case (verdict of $8,102,400 reduced by 50% assumption of risk)
- $6,000,000 mid-trial settlement for a carpenter requiring lumbar fusion surgery after slipping on ice on a temporary scaffold stairway
- $4,795,000 settlement for a partial leg amputation from a truck accident, including waiver of $1.1 million workers’ compensation lien and $500,000 for future medical expenses
- $4,700,000 settlement for intersectional auto collision resulting in back surgery
- $4,500,000 settlement for a 78-year-old pedestrian who sustained leg injuries requiring multiple surgeries
- $4,500,000 settlement for a railroad machinist who required multiple back surgeries after injury while servicing a Metra locomotive
- $3,875,000 settlement for an ankle fracture from a slip and fall on snow and ice at a jobsite
- $3,625,000 settlement for the death of an unmarried 36-year-old woman in an intersectional collision during adverse weather conditions
- $3,551,293 settlement for a fatal motorcycle accident involving a tractor-trailer
- $3,000,000 settlement for orthopedic injuries in a Kentucky trucking case
- $1,250,000 verdict for wrongful death of a college student due to negligent assembly of a pole vault landing pit – highest reported verdict in Morgan County, Illinois