Alexander M. Sukhman earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. In 1999, he graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law with honors. After graduating from law school, Alex immediately began representing victims of medical malpractice and personal injury and has continued to do so throughout his entire career.
Alex has consistently obtained significant jury verdicts and settlements in medical malpractice, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury cases. Alex’s extensive trial experience includes trials in over a dozen different counties, and he has represented victims and their families in nearly 30 counties throughout the state of Illinois. In fact, Alex’s first medical malpractice trial resulted in obtaining the record verdict as well as the first plaintiff medical malpractice verdict in the history of Warren County. Alex has obtained over $200 million in settlements and verdicts on behalf of his clients.
Alex’s record of success was formally recognized in 2007 when he was honored at age 33 by Law Bulletin Publishing Company as one of the “Top 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch,” largely on the strength of nominations from Alex’s opposing attorneys from past and current medical malpractice cases.
Recently, in 2023/2024, Alex secured settlements totaling $30 million dollars in various medical negligence cases including the failure to properly embolize an Arterio-Venous Malformation (“AVM”) in a young woman resulting in paralysis; the failure to diagnose and treat infection resulting in the death of a two and a half month old child; the failure to diagnose and treat sepsis in a post-surgical patient resulting in her death; and the failure to timely deliver a baby in a high-risk mother resulting in the still born death of her child.
Prior to that, in June 2019, Alex obtained a $10.1 million dollar jury verdict against Advocate Lutheran General for its failure to diagnose and treat sepsis in a 37-year old man resulting in his death.
Alex considers it the highest compliment that other attorneys, particularly his opponents in the defense bar, ask Alex to represent their close friends or loved ones.
Alex has the brains, the personality and the moxie to try cases throughout the state of Illinois and relate well to the citizens that form the jury. – Appellate Court Justice Terrence J. Lavin
