Bryce Hensley is one of the Founding Partners of Stinar Gould Grieco & Hensley (SGGH) and co-manages the firm’s Mass Tort practice group overseeing the firm’s most complex cases involving toxic exposures, defective products, institutional sexual abuse, personal injuries, and wrongful death. Bryce’s expertise, skill, and dedication have been praised by his hundreds of clients, his fellow lawyers, and the judges he regularly appears before. Along with representing SGGH clients, Bryce is frequently entrusted by lawyers from around the country–and even in Chicago–to serve as Local Counsel for hundreds of their clients in cases pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Bryce is currently leading the following litigation efforts alongside SGGH Founding Partners and Lawyers:

• Ortega Litigation: Representing over 300 women sexually abused by disgraced Endeavor, NorthShore, and Swedish Covenant OBGYN Fabio Ortega.
• Camp LeJeune Litigation: Representing hundreds of Marines and their family members exposed to toxic chemicals on the North Carolina military base that were diagnosed or deceased as a result of cancer and other illnesses.
• Ethylene Oxide Litigation: Representing hundreds of individuals diagnosed with cancer as Litigation Counsel or Local Counsel in cases against manufacturers and other businesses emitting a known human carcinogen into residential communities.
• Northwestern Litigation: Representing over 50 former Northwestern student-athletes victimized by institutional hazing at Northwestern University during the coaching tenure of Patrick Fitzgerald.

Prior to founding SGGH with his partners, Bryce practiced at one of the largest personal injury law firms in Illinois, representing individuals injured or killed by the negligence and wrongful conduct of others. He was the youngest partner in the firm’s 25-plus-year history, achieving the honor in less than six years of practice.

In that time, Bryce spearheaded his firm’s representation of over 400 clients in litigation involving over $1.25 billion in recoveries for injured individuals. These included the $800 million settlement over the October 1 shooting at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas and over $450 million in settlements surrounding companies’ emissions of toxic chemicals in Illinois.

Bryce’s expertise and success in representing injured individuals have also resulted in his nomination and appointment to leadership roles in complex litigation. In 2019, Bryce was appointed by the Circuit Court of Cook County as the Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel in the Willowbrook Ethylene Oxide Litigation, which resulted in a global settlement exceeding $450 million for over 870 Plaintiffs diagnosed with cancer and other illnesses from toxic air emissions from local sterilization facilities. Currently, Bryce serves as Local Counsel for numerous prominent personal injury firms from around the country in hundreds of ongoing lawsuits on behalf of individuals diagnosed with cancer.

Bryce’s advocacy skills are renowned, as he has won numerous high-stakes motions and appeals in state and federal courts.

• In August 2024, in the Ortega Litigation, Bryce moved and succeeded in consolidating the cases of five women for trial against the healthcare systems that employed Ortega and allowed him to continue abusing his patients under the guise of medical care even after they had become aware he was a subject of criminal investigation.
• In December 2022, in the Willowbrook Ethylene Oxide Litigation, Bryce responded to a series of motions that threatened to resolve the entire case against his clients on the eve of trial. Bryce won all of the arguments, and the case was resolved weeks later in his clients’ favor.
• In December 2018, he argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and reversed the District Court’s grant of summary judgment against his client. (Lewis v. City of Shreveport, et al., 765 Fed. Appx. 93 (5th Cir. 2019)). The case settled shortly after the ruling.

In November 2023, Bryce was one of just four alumni featured in Chicago Kent College of Law’s Magazine dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the school’s nationally-ranked Trial Advocacy Team—a program producing over 400 lawyers in the last four decades. In 2020, Crain’s Chicago Business recognized Bryce as one of its “20 in their 20s.” He has been consistently recognized as a “Rising Star,” “Emerging Lawyer,” and “One to Watch” for years by national legal publications.

Bryce graduated magna cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was bestowed admission into the Order of the Coif and the Bar & Gavel Society. He was also selected as the Captain of Chicago Kent’s Trial Advocacy Team, helping them achieve a #3 national rank. In 2016, he was one of 16 law students in the country selected to attend the prestigious Top Gun Trial Competition at Baylor University. He was also voted the Best Advocate at the Tournament of Champions in Berkeley, California—the most selective invitational trial competition in the country.