Regina P. Etherton
Practice Information
- Accepting New Clients
- Virtual Visits
Pricing Information
- Contingency
Jurisdiction
- State
Practice Areas
- Malpractice/Medical/Defense
- Malpractice/Plastic Surgery
- Personal Injury
- Personal Injury/Auto & Truck Accidents
- Personal Injury/Birth Injuries
- Personal Injury/Burn Injury
- Personal Injury/Joint Replacement Claims
- Personal Injury/Mass Torts
- Personal Injury/No-Fault Insurance Claims
- Personal Injury/Nursing Homes
- Personal Injury/Product Liability
- Personal Injury/Service-Connected Injury & Illness
- Personal Injury/Toxic Torts
- Personal Injury/Traumatic Brain Injury
- Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
Practices in Counties
- Adams
- Alexander
- Bond
- Boone
- Brown
- Bureau
- Calhoun
- Carroll
- Cass
- Champaign
- Christian
- Clark
- Clay
- Clinton
- Coles
- Cook
- Crawford
- Cumberland
- DeKalb
- DeWitt
- Douglas
- DuPage
- Edgar
- Edwards
- Effingham
- Fayette
- Ford
- Franklin
- Fulton
- Gallatin
- Greene
- Grundy
- Hamilton
- Hancock
- Henderson
- Henry
- Iroquois
- Jackson
- Jasper
- Jefferson
- Jersey
- Jo Daviess
- Johnson
- Kane
- Kankakee
- Kendall
- Knox
- Lake
- LaSalle
- Lawrence
- Lee
- Livingston
- Logan
- Macon
- Macoupin
- Madison
- Marion
- Marshall
- Mason
- Massac
- McDonough
- McHenry
- McLean
- Menard
- Mercer
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Morgan
- Moultrie
- Ogle
- Peoria
- Perry
- Piatt
- Pike
- Pope
- Pulaski
- Randolph
- Richland
- Rock Island
- Saline
- Sangamon
- Schuyler
- Scott
- Shelby
- St. Clair
- Stark
- Stephenson
- Tazewell
- Union
- Vermilion
- Wabash
- Warren
- Washington
- Wayne
- White
- Whiteside
- Will
- Williamson
- Winnebago
- Woodford
More About Regina P. Etherton
States of Admission
- Illinois, 1984
Biography
Regina P. Etherton has a diverse and extensive personal injury litigation practice. She has prosecuted a broad variety of multi-million-dollar complex tort, personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death claims. She has obtained record verdicts and settlements in Cook County and other counties throughout Illinois. Her noteworthy verdicts and settlements have been featured in the Illinois Daily Law Bulletin, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter; Illinois Jury Verdict Reporter; Verdicts, Settlements, & Tactics; Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Magazine: Vested Interest; Mealey's Insurance Law Weekly, and the Justinian Society Magazine.
Mrs. Etherton was admitted to the Illinois State Bar in 1984 after graduating from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was a contributing writer to the Loyola Woman's Law Reporter (1983-1984). She graduated cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 1981, where she was on the Dean’s List for four years and received the Eastwood Scholarship, Dad’s Club Scholarship, and the Southern Methodist University Academic Scholarship.
She has received numerous awards, honors, and distinctions, including, but not limited to:
- Lawdragon: 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers in America, 2006-Present
- Illinois Super Lawyer, 2008-2010, 2013-Present
- Selected as a Top Lawyer and Top Personal Injury Attorney in Illinois by Leading Lawyers Network and Magazine, 2007-Present
- American Bar Foundation: Fellow, 2014-Present
- Chicago Lawyer Magazine: Top Verdicts & Settlements in Illinois – 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019-2025
- TopVerdicts: Top 100 Medical Malpractice Settlements (Nationwide), 2024 – 2 entries and 4th highest Illinois Settlement
- Top 100 Leading Women Consumer Lawyers, 2012-present
- Lifetime memberships to the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Mrs. Etherton has been the Chairman of the Chicago Bar Association- Lawyer Referral Service for over a decade, has been on numerous other boards, and has served as a mentor for the ISBA since 2005. She also has served as the President, Vice President, and Ward Chair of the Lake Forest Caucus.
Law School
Loyola University Chicago School of Law