Tara R. Devine

Tara R. Devine joined Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C., in March 2004 and became the firm’s first female partner in 2011. In 2018, Ms. Devine was promoted to Managing Partner of the firm’s Waukegan office. She concentrates her practice in the areas of personal injury, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and product liability cases. Ms. Devine has helped achieve numerous multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements on behalf of her clients in personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death suits. In August 2017, she was part of the trial team that obtained a record-setting $148 million jury verdict on behalf of a dancer paralyzed by a collapsed pedestrian shelter at O’Hare International Airport. The verdict is the largest personal injury verdict ever awarded to an individual plaintiff in Illinois history. Several months later, the city of Chicago appealed the verdict and the case settled for a record-breaking $115 million. In 2016, Ms. Devine obtained an $18.5 million settlement on behalf of a child who suffered a serious brain injury due to a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of meningitis. That same year, Ms. Devine obtained a $1.6 million verdict in a wrongful death case, the highest recorded verdict in Stephenson County. Ms. Devine is licensed and practices in Illinois and Wisconsin. Awards and Honors Honors 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” for Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, Best Lawyers Recognized as one of the Illinois Super Lawyers every year since 2022. “Women in Law” honoree, Law Bulletin Media Named to Crain’s Custom Media’s Chicago Gen X Leaders in Law list, 2019 Named to Notable Women Lawyers in Chicago list, 2018 Trial Lawyer Excellence Award, Law Bulletin Media, 2018 Lake County Journal’s “Women of Distinction” award, 2016 Named one of Law Bulletin Media’s 40 Illinois Attorneys to Watch Under Forty, 2014.

• Lake County Managing Partner, since 2011

• Illinois, 2003
• Wisconsin, 2003
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2003
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2003

• Lake County Bar Association, Board Member
• Lake County Bar Association, President, 2022 - 2023
• Illinois Supreme Court Committee
• Chicago Bar Association, Member
• Illinois State Bar Association, Member
• Wisconsin State Bar Association, Member
• American Association for Justice, Member
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Board of Managers
• Committee Member, Annual Chicago Marquette Lawyer Reception, Marquette University