Overview
Patricia S. Kocour is a partner at Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP, where she is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and former longtime chair of the Medical Negligence and Healthcare Practice Group. She has devoted the bulk of her career to defending hospitals, physicians, physician groups, nursing agencies and other healthcare practitioners against claims of medical malpractice. She has experience with drug and medical equipment litigation and general product liability and commercial litigation.
- Advocate, American Board of Trial Advocates
- Board Member, Kocour Company
- Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Illinois Society of Trial Lawyers
- Board of Directors, 2008-2010
- Chicagoland Healthcare Risk Management Society
- Charity and Scholarship Committee, 2013-2014
- Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring Program
- Firm Leader, 2013
- Mentor, 2012
- Crain’s Chicago Business, “Notable Gen X Leaders In Law,” 2019
- Illinois Super Lawyers®, 2011-2021
- Medical Malpractice – Defense
- Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, Service Award, June 2015
- Law Bulletin Media “Leading Lawyers,” 2018-2021
- The Best Lawyers in America®, (2024,2026)
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
- “Essential Update: The State of Law Division,” 10th Annual Symposium with the Judges, November 2019
