Michael D. Ditore

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 5% of eligible attorneys in the state who are selected as a result of nominations, independent research, and peer evaluation. He was 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

Practice Areas

News

Attorney-Authored Articles

"Section 6-622 Affidavit and Report Required in Medical, Hospital or Other Healing Art Malpractice Cases"
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s Medical Malpractice Trial Notebook, 10.24.2023