Mark McKenna

I represent plaintiffs in all areas of personal injury law, including medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and neglect, automobile and trucking negligence, product liability, construction negligence, and sexual abuse cases against the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America. I have long represented families whose lives are altered, in some cases forever altered, due to neglect or abuse of powerful entities. I also serve as a voice in the legal justice system for children who fall victim to abuse. For many of the families and individuals I work with, I am not only their attorney, I am their sounding board and their advocate. I have sought and have successfully won not only quantitative compensation in the form of damages totaling over $130,000,000 to date but also vindication for years of denial and neglect of the victims. I have been a trial lawyer since 1994, when I began working with Chris Hurley as an associate. In 2004, I became a partner with Hurley McKenna & Mertz. It was during my two-year internship at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago prior to law school that I found my calling to serve clients who were up against large corporations, insurance companies, and the medical industry. I have extensive trial experience in the Illinois state courts, and state and federal courts throughout the United States, including Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, Florida, Ohio and Maryland. In 2012, I was elected by my fellow trial lawyers to the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. I have also been selected as a “Super Lawyer” by the Super Lawyers rating service.