University of Notre Dame Law School, Juris Doctor, 1972
Brunel University (London), Notre Dame Law School, summer study, 1972
St. Michael’s College, 1967 – 1969, B.A., magna cum laude, 1969
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1965 -1967
Professional Background
President, Patricia C. Bobb & Associates, 1985 – present, general civil litigation/plaintiff’s personal injury litigation with an emphasis in medical malpractice
Partner, Bobb, Kane, Obbish & Propes, 1980 – 1985
Trial attorney, Phillip H. Corboy & Associates, plaintiff’s personal injury litigation, 1978 – 1980
Assistant State’s Attorney: Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office; felony trial attorney and felony trial court supervisor, 1972 – 1978
Admitted to practice: Illinois; United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972
Honors & Awards
Currently appears in six Illinois Leading Lawyers Top 10 and Top 100 lists and is first in five of the six categories.
Selected by Leading Lawyers in Personal Injury Law: General, Personal Injury Law: Professional Malpractice, and ADR Law: Personal Injury Law, 2004-present. View Patricia C. Bobb’s Leading Lawyers Profile.
Lifetime Achievement Award, Jury Verdict Reporter Awards for Trial Lawyer Excellence, October 2014
Elected fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, October, 1992 – present
Women’s Bar Association of Illinois “Rise Up and Reach Back” 2010 Esther Rothstein Scholarship Award, January 2010
Saint Ignatius College Prep Honorary Alumna Diploma, March 2005
Elected fellow, International Society of Barristers, July 1997
Chicago Bar Association William J. White Award of Excellence, for Service in the Judicial Evaluation Process, May 1993
Selected by Town & Country magazine as one of the “Best Lawyers in the U.S.” in the area of personal injury, malpractice and product liability, May 1985
Selected by Glamour magazine as one of the “Ten Outstanding Working Women in the United States,” 1984
Listed in the Best Lawyers in America: personal injury litigation, 1983; new edition 1987 – Woodward/White, New York; by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Harvard Law School
Profiled in Time magazine as one of five “Outstanding female trial lawyers in the country,” May 1983
Appointments & Boards
The Chicago Network, Board of Directors, 2008-2011, Chair 2010 – 2011
ACCESS Community Health Network, Board of Directors, 2009 – present
Appointed by Mayor Richard J. Daley to Chicago Police Board, 1998 – 2010
Economic Club of Chicago, 2009
Chicago Legal Clinic, Board of Directors 1992-present, Vice President, 1994 – 2008
Saint Ignatius College Preparatory High School, Board of Directors, 2001 – 2008
Seventh Circuit Bar Association American Jury Project Commission
Appointed by Chief Judge Marvin Aspen to Magistrate Judge Reappointment Advisory Panel, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2002
American Bar Association Committee on Medical Professional Liability, 2002
Judicial Ethics Opinions Advisory Committee, Joint Committee of Illinois Judges Committee, Chicago Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association, 1992
Appointed by the Honorable Harry G. Comerford, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County to Committee to recommend rules for the implementation of a court-annexed mandatory arbitration program for Cook County, February 1988
Blue Ribbon Committee to study the Insurance Crisis, Chicago Bar Association, January – May 1988
ISBA-CBA Joint Committee on Judicial Compensation for 1988 – 1989
Illinois State Bar Association Committee on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education
Appointed by Illinois Supreme Court as a member of Planning and Oversight Committee for a Judicial Performance Evaluation Program, Illinois Supreme Court, June 5, 1987 – present
Lawyers Advisory Subcommittee on Alternate Dispute Resolution, Illinois Judicial Conference, June 1987
“Cross Examination Before Direct Examination,” Chapter 44, Your Witness, Law Bulletin Publishing Company, 2008
“Res Ipsa Loquitur,” Chapter 4, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Handbook on Medical Malpractice, 1989
“Plaintiff’s Case in Chief,” Chapter 41, Medical and Hospital Negligence, Callaghan & Co., 1988
“How to Maximize Damages in Child Death Cases,” Chapter 13, Women Trial Lawyers: How They Succeed in Practice and in the Courtroom, Edited by Janine N. Warsaw, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1987
“Opening Statements: A Winning Approach,” Chapter 20, I.C.L.E. Handbook on Transportation Negligence, Fall 1986
