Tom Plouff left the United States Attorneys Office in 1993. Tom Plouff knew he wanted to continue as a trial attorney, which in his mind left two options: defending criminals or personal injury work, as these are the areas where trials are most frequent.  Thomas Plouff decided that personal injury work would be more of a “white hat” job, little did he know how juries view personal injury attorneys. It was the right decision. Thomas Plouff had the good fortune of being the lead trial attorney on jury verdicts that include a record $5.3 million jury verdict for a knee injury in a trip and fall case; $1.2 million jury verdict for an unoperated compression fracture at L5 in a construction case; an  $11.11 million medical malpractice jury verdict for failure to diagnose bacterial meningitis, and an accident in McCormick Place in Chicago for another multimillion dollar verdict.

Tom Plouff grew up in Indiana, where his dad was on the administration at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating from Notre Dame with a degree in business, he went to law school at Notre Dame and graduated with distinction. After working six years in Washington, D.C. as an antitrust litigator at the Federal Trade Commission and as a trial attorney for the U.S. Dept. of Justice, he moved home to be near my family.