Michael T. Mertz
Michael’s tireless and aggressive advocacy, coupled with his flexibility throughout each phase of litigation, allows for maximum recoveries on behalf of his clients.
“A case is not a set of facts, it’s an experience our client has gone through.”
About Michael T. Mertz
Since graduating from DePaul University College of Law in 1997, Michael T. Mertz has practiced with Hurley McKenna & Mertz. In 2004, he became a partner. Michael exclusively represents injured persons and their families in all types of cases, including medical malpractice, sexual abuse, nursing home abuse, product liability, construction accidents, automobile collisions, and premises liability cases.
Throughout his tenure he has served his clients well, achieving significant verdicts and obtaining record-setting settlements. To date, Michael has recovered more than $150,000,000 for his clients. Michael has successfully resolved cases in Illinois, Alabama, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Tennessee, Nevada, Indiana and Oklahoma.
Mertz's recent notable achievements include a Cook County Circuit Court jury verdict of $5,412,000 Mertz obtained in April of 2022 against a Chicago apartment building owner and property management company who failed to maintain a building’s front security door, resulting in a 63-year-old female apartment tenant being attacked by an intruder. In June of 2022 in a case pending in Birmingham, Alabama, Mertz obtained a $6,000,000 settlement for a 55-year-old Chicago man who suffered leg injuries in a head-on collision with a negligently-operated ambulance in 2019 in Birmingham.
Through his extensive experience in complex cases, Michael has honed his skills to evaluate each case closely and quickly identify successful theories and arguments. His tireless and aggressive advocacy, coupled with his flexibility throughout each phase of litigation, allows Michael to achieve maximum recoveries on behalf of his clients.
Michael also serves as his clients’ appellate lawyer. In 1999, in Modelski v. Navistar Int’l Transp. Corp., 302 Ill.App.3d 879, 707 N.E.2d 239 (1st Dist. 1999), Michael argued before the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, and won a reversal of a jury’s verdict entered against his client. The case settled shortly after Michael convinced the Appellate Court to rule in his client’s favor.
In 2001, in Keef v. Widuch, et al., 321 Ill.App.3d 571, 747 N.E.2d 992 (1st Dist. 2001), Michael again successfully appealed the dismissal the complaint in one of his cases by convincing the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, to reverse the lower court’s ruling.
In 2021, the National Trial Lawyers selected Mertz for inclusion into its Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in Illinois, an honor given to only a select group of lawyers for their superior skills and qualifications in the field. Membership in this exclusive organization is by invitation only and is limited to the top 100 attorneys in each state or region who have demonstrated excellence and have achieved outstanding results in their careers in either civil plaintiff or criminal defense law.
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