Profile
Michael Ditore is a partner at Corboy & Demetrio. He practices in all areas of personal injury law and has obtained over $100 million in verdicts and settlements for his clients.
In 2022, Mike and firm Co-founder Thomas Demetrio obtained a record-setting $42.4 million-dollar medical malpractice verdict. In 2023, along with Partner Bill Gibbs, Mike obtained a $10.5 million wrongful death verdict for the family of a man killed during a police pursuit.
Mike was listed in Top 50 Verdicts in Illinois in 2019 for a $2.6 million jury verdict he and Partner David R. Barry, Jr. obtained in a medical malpractice case. In 2024, as lead counsel, Mike obtained multiple seven-figure results, including a $7.7 million settlement for a man injured in an auto collision.
Mike was selected to the 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, after previously being selected to the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch".
He was also selected to inaugural Lawdragon 500 X - the Next Generation, a legal guide of the top 500 up-and-coming attorneys nationwide in 2023 and, again, in 2024. Mike was also named to Illinois Leading Lawyers in 2024, an honor limited to 2.5% of eligible attorneys in the state who are selected as a result of nominations, independent research, and peer evaluation, after being named to Leading Lawyers “Rising Stars” in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
In 2020, Mike was named to the prestigious 40 Under Forty by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer magazine, and he was selected out of 1500 applicants Since 2018, Mike has been consistently selected to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40 as well.
Prior to joining the firm, Mike served as an Assistant State’s Attorney advocating on behalf of victims of crime. In that capacity, he litigated over 500 cases, including felony and misdemeanor jury and bench trials. Mike worked extensively on high-level felony matters including first-degree murder cases.
Mike graduated from Illinois State University, and thereafter received his law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he was selected as a top trial advocate in the nation.
Mike was twice chosen to be a member of the elite Corboy Fellowship in Trial Advocacy, a scholarship and intensive trial advocacy training program awarded to only the top ten advocates at Loyola and served as the team captain. As a Corboy Fellow, Mike was a national champion and received the prestigious Joan Marie Corboy Scholarship for Leadership and Trial Advocacy, awarded for demonstrated leadership and superior abilities in trial advocacy. After graduating from Loyola, Mike was asked to return to Loyola as an Adjunct Professor in Trial Advocacy.
At Loyola, Mike also participated in a program sponsored by the university that taught high school students about their constitutional rights, lecturing on common legal issues to high school students across Chicago’s South Side. Through that program, he coached the mock trial teams at Hirsch Metropolitan High School in Englewood and Richards Career Academy High School in Back of the Yards.
Mike remains actively involved in the community, serving as a member for the Howlett Cup Committee, which facilitates an annual high school mock trial competition among a diverse group of Chicago area Catholic schools. He was appointed to serve as the Committee’s Director in 2019. He likewise served on the Young Professionals Board of the Center for Disability & Elder Law, a group that provides pro bono legal assistance to the elderly and those with disabilities.
Honors
The Best Lawyers in America, 2023-present
Lawdragon 500 X - the Next Generation, 2023-present
Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch," 2022
Illinois Leading Lawyers, 2024
Emerging Lawyers by Leading Lawyers, 2021-2023
40 Under Forty, 2020, by Chicago Lawyer magazine and Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Top 50 Verdicts in Illinois in 2019
IL Rising Stars, 2020-present
The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40, 2018
Joan Marie Corboy Scholarship for Leadership and Trial Advocacy
Philip H. Corboy Trial Advocacy Endowed Scholarship
Top Gun-Top 16 Advocates in the Nation, 2013
American College of Trial Lawyers: National Trial Competition, National, 2nd Place and Regional, 1st Place, 2013
William W. Daniel National Mock Trial Competition, 1st Place, 2012
Michael A. Hall Outstanding Attorney Scholarship, 2009, 2010
American Mock Trial Association All-Collegiate Outstanding Attorney
Professional Affiliations
American Association for Justice, Member, 2018
Chicago Bar Association, Member, 2018
Illinois State Bar Association, Member, 2018
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Member, 2018
Community Involvement
Center for Disability & Elder Law, Young Professionals Board
Good Sports, Young Professionals Board, 2018-present
Justinian Society of Lawyers, Member
Successes
Successes
- 08.19.2022
- 05.22.2022
- 03.13.2019
Practice Areas
News
News
Attorney-Authored Articles
Speaking Engagements and Presentations
Speaker, "Litigating Police Chases," Illinois Trial Lawyers Association's Update & Review Seminar, 2024
Speaker, "Agency and Apparent Agency," Illinois Trial Lawyers Association's Medical Malpractice CLE Seminar, 2023
Speaker, "Institutional Miscommunication Causing Medical Malpractice, "Illinois Trial Lawyers Association's Medical Malpractice CLE Seminar, 2022
Speaker, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s Medical Malpractice CLE webinar, 2020
Lecturer, Loyola Law School’s Trial Advocacy Boot Camp, 2019
Press Releases
Major Media Coverage
Education
Clerkships
- Hon. Susan Zwick, Cook County Circuit Court
Education
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D.
Illinois State University, B.S.
Admissions
Bar & Court Admissions
- State of Illinois