Recent Honors
2012, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020. Chicago Lawyer Magazine Top Verdicts and Settlements. #57 in 2020, #51 and highest-ranking female owned firm in 2019, and #11 and highest-ranking settlement for a female attorney on the list in 2012.
2015-Present. Regina P. Etherton is Chairman of the Chicago Bar Association-Lawyer Referral Service.
2008-Present. Regina P. Etherton is on the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Board of Managers. The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association is a statewide organization whose members are dedicated to preserving trial by jury and protecting the rights of injured victims. Regina P. Etherton is one of the few female attorneys selected to serve on its Board of Managers.
2018-Present. Regina P. Etherton is a Board Member for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s Women’s Caucus.
2012-2021. Regina P. Etherton was selected to the Top 100 leading Women Consumer Lawyers by the Leading Lawyers Network.
2008-2010, 2013-2021. Regina P. Etherton was selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers list published by Chicago Magazine. The Super Lawyers list is comprised of outstanding lawyers who have achieved significant peer recognition and a high degree of professional achievement. Nominations are made by judges and other lawyers who have personally observed the lawyer in action. Only five percent of lawyers in each state are selected to the Super Lawyers list.
2007-Present. Regina P. Etherton was selected as a Top Attorney and Personal Injury Attorney in Illinois by Leading Lawyers Network. The Leading Lawyers Network is the most trusted and respected resource to locate reputable, experienced plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers. Leading Lawyers Network surveys lawyers, asking them which of their peers, indeed their competitors, they would recommend to a family member or friend if they could not take a case within their area of law or geographic region. Based upon survey nominations and approval by an advisory board, only the top lawyers are nominated and eligible for membership in the Leading Lawyers Network.
2014-Present. Regina P. Etherton was selected as a Fellow for the American Bar Foundation.
2011-2014. Regina P. Etherton was Vice Chairman for the Chicago Bar Association-Lawyer Referral Service.
2009 and 2011, 2016-2021. Regina P. Etherton was selected as a Top Female Attorney in all areas of practice in Illinois by Leading Lawyers, Law Bulletin Publishing Company, and LeadingLawyers.com. The list of Leading Lawyers is the result of a rigorous selection process. The lawyers selected by their peers are among the top lawyers in the State.
2008-2010, 2013-2021. Regina P. Etherton was selected as a Top Female Attorney practicing in the field of Personal Injury Law in Illinois by Leading Lawyers, Law Bulletin Publishing Company, and LeadingLawyers.com.
2012. Regina P. Etherton was selected as among the Top 1% Trial Counsel for Illinois Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs’ Attorneys. A designation as one of The Top 1% Trial Counsel for Medical Malpractice is a prestigious award for which candidates are selected from the leading professionals based on MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.org’s rigorous 6-point scoring system. Selected on the basis of peer reviews and individual medical malpractice trial performance, this designation is limited to less than 1% of professionals, and represents the elite medical malpractice attorneys.
2007-2011. Regina P. Etherton was selected as one of The American Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers. Membership is obtained through special invitation and careful screening by the American Trial Lawyers Association’s Executive Committee and is extended only to those attorneys who exemplify superior qualifications and an outstanding reputation among their peers, the judiciary, and the public.
2006-Present. Regina P. Etherton was selected as one of the “500 Leading Plaintiffs’ Lawyers In America” by Lawdragon Magazine and lawdragon.com. Less than half of 1% of America’s 1.1 million attorneys are accepted into this prestigious group. Regina P. Etherton was named as one of the top 500 plaintiffs’ lawyers in America in Lawdragon’s January 2007 publication, which is distributed to 80,000 people.
2007-Lifetime. Regina P. Etherton was inducted into The Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Members of The Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum must be Lifetime Members of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
2006-Lifetime. Regina P. Etherton was inducted into The Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Only 3,000 trial lawyers across the country belong to this group and approximately 100 are from Illinois. “The Million Dollar Advocates Forum is the most prestigious group of trial lawyers in the United States. Its members have won million, multi-million and billion dollar cases.”-from the website of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Each member has demonstrated, in an objective and tangible way, ability to accomplish superior results in complex cases. This nationally recognized group consists of some of the best trial lawyers in the country.
2013-2016. Regina P. Etherton was appointed by the American Bar Association as a Board Member to its Standing Committee on Lawyer Referral and Information Service. The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary legal organization in the world comprising of over 400,000 members. An appointment on this Committee is very selective.
