Product Liability & Torts in Chicago: lateral monitor

From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 60 lateral moves in Product Liability & Torts in Chicago, 6.2% of the practice's moves. On settled windows the count went from 55 to 64 (+16.4%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat.

Over the three years to October 2026, 172 lawyers moved in Product Liability & Torts in Chicago, 60 of them partners (34.9%). They joined 75 different firms. 11.0% stepped up a level on the move and 17.1% changed city, against 12.3% and 21.6% across the market over the same three years. 41.5% came from firms with 1,000+ lawyers.

This is a partner market: 35.0% of movers were partners, against 27.7% market-wide. On settled windows partner moves alone went from 23 to 21 (-8.7%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat. 10.0% of movers stepped up a level when they changed firm, against 12.9% for the market.

The 12-month firm table is below our naming threshold, so this part reads the three years to October 2026. Lateral hires in Product Liability & Torts in Chicago were spread across 75 firms. Ten firms account for 36.2% of arrivals, against 12.2% across the market: concentrated. First on the hiring table is Clyde & Co, with arrivals in the 6-10 band.

The practice accounts for 10.1% of all lateral moves in Chicago. Over the three years to October 2026, 67.4% of movers came from another firm in Chicago itself. A change of city came with 19.2% of moves (market 20.5%).

There were 32 open roles in Product Liability & Torts in Chicago on law-firm career pages on November 11, 2026.

For a firm planning a hire in Product Liability & Torts in Chicago, a flat market means candidates are not being pulled by a wave: the case for a move has to come from the platform.

Sartori & Partners data count 67 dated deals in Product Liability & Torts in Chicago in the 12 months to October 2026 and 153 over the three years to October 2026.

Disputes & investigations work is involved in 98.7% of them.

By client industry, Healthcare Providers & Payors comes first with 15.0%.

King & Spalding ranks first among advising firms over the period, in the 11-20 band.

Over the three years to October 2026, Product Liability was involved in 61.0% of moves in Product Liability & Torts in Chicago, then Premises & General Liability with 36.6%.