Steven M. Levin

Steven M. Levin is the co-founder and senior partner of Levin & Perconti, and a trial lawyer with more than 25 years of litigation experience and success. In 1992, he and John Perconti founded Levin & Perconti, which has since grown into a twenty-lawyer plaintiff personal injury firm with more than 135 years of combined trial experience. Steve has obtained an extraordinary number of multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients in a tremendous variety of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including birth injury, failure to timely diagnose cancer and workplace negligence. His most recent victories include a $7 million judgment for his client against a doctor who failed to diagnose postpartum bleeding, and a $6.7 million medical malpractice verdict against a hospital involving a birth injury case. Steve has appeared on ABC, NBC and CBS news programs for cases which have attracted both local and national attention. Over the past eighteen years, Steve has established a reputation as one of the country's top litigators in the highly-specialized area of nursing home abuse and neglect. He has represented hundreds of nursing home residents and their families who have been victimized by improper care and treatment, achieving landmark victories and record-setting verdicts and settlements for his clients in these cases. More importantly, Steve's vigilance in representing such victims has brought national attention to this rampant and unacceptable problem, sending a message that mistreatment of one of society's most vulnerable groups will not go unnoticed.

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

J.D. / Law

1976

Honors: cum laudeLead Article Editor, Loyola University School of Law ReviewThomas Owens Award recipient (for highest grade point average)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

B.A.

1973

Honors: cum laude

Founder and Senior Partner

Levin & Perconti

1992 - Current

Advising Elder Clients and Their Families - Chapter 7 - Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Actions Under the Nursing Home Care Act

Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2008 Handbook

2008

Plaintiff's Perspectives

IICLE Long Term Care Litigation

2008

Litigating Nursing Home Malpractice

GP Solo Magazine

August, 2008

Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Actions in the Elderly Population

The Advocacy & Litigation SIG Advocate: National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc.

April, 2008

Handling Witnesses: Deposing the Medical Director, Director of Nursing, Attending Physician, Nursing Home Administrator and Nursing Staff

Nursing Home Litigation: Pre-Trial Practice and Trials

2001

Screening the Nursing Home Case

Nursing Home Litigation: Investigation and Case Preparation

2001

Litigating Nursing Home Wandering Cases

Elder's Advisor: The Journal of Elder Law and Post-Retirement Planning

September, 2000

First Things First: Evaluating a Nursing Home Case

Illinois State Bar Journal

July, 2000

Protecting the Rights of Nursing Home Residents Through Litigation

Illinois State Bar Journal

January, 1996

Nursing Homes and Life Care Communities

IICLE, Advising Elderloy Clients and Their Families

1991

A Question of Responsibility: Part Two - An Attorney's View of the Insanity Defense

Loyola Magazine

1982

Libel and Slander - A State is Precluded from Imposing Liability Without Fault or Presumed or Punitive Damages in teh Absence of New York Times Malice - Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.

Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal

1975

Elder Law Practice in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Nursing Home Litigation for the Elder Law Practitioner, Chicago, IL

March 23, 2012

Pretrial Preparation in Civil Practice, Deposing Adverse Parties and Expert Witnesses, Chicago, IL

March 23, 2012

Personal injury in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, Chicago, IL

April 2, 2012

The John Marshall Law School

Winning Your Case Through Depositions, Advanced Nursing Home Litigation Seminar, Atlantic City, NJ

April 26, 2012

New Jersey Association for Justice

Nursing Home College: Depositions, Washington, D.C.

May 10, 2012

American Association for Justice

Research Strategies for Expert Depositions and Trial Preparation in Nursing Home Cases, AAJ 2012 Annual Convention, Chicago, IL

July 30, 2012

American Association for Justice

Voir Dire: Legal & Strategic Issues, Lunchtime Seminar Series, Chicago, IL

December 17, 2012

Circuit Court of Cook County

Advanced Evidentiary Issues at Trial, Chicago, IL

January 25, 2013

IICLE

Litigating Nursing Home Cases Seminar: From Case Selection to Trial, Boston, MA

May 9, 2013

American Association for Justice

Wound Care and the Law: Liability and Other Issues for the Practicing Wound Care Clinician, ACWHTR Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

December 6, 2013

The American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair

Taking Doctors to Task: The Ethics of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, National Jewish Retreat, Chicago, IL

August 6, 2014

The National Conference of Jewish Lawyers

Plaintiff and Defense Points of View on Recent Wound Care Topics, ACWHTR Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

December 5, 2014

The American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair

Liability Insurance Issues – Ethical, Practical and Strategic Challenges - See more at: http://www.iicle.com/nursing-homeassisted-living-litigation-6#sthash.co42e2yu.dpuf, Nursing Home & Assisted Living Facility Litigation Seminar, Chicago, IL

February 6, 2015

Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education

Illinois Top 100 Attorneys

Chicago Lawyer Magazine

2015

Trial Lawyer Excellence

Legal bulletin publishing company

2012

Illinois Super Lawyer

Super Lawyers

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

The Best Lawyers in America

The Best Lawyers in America® International

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, 2013, 2014, 2015

"AV" Rating

Martindale-Hubbell

The "AV" rating from the Martindale-Hubbell American Law Directory indicates preeminent legal ability and very high ethical standards.

Leading Lawyers

Leading Lawyers Network

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Illinois State Bar

Member

Current

American Association for Justice

Member

Current

Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

Member

Current

Chicago Bar Association

Member

Current

American Bar Association

Member

Current

Illinois

Since 1976

7th Circuit

Since 1976

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Since 1976

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• Medical Malpractice
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• Personal Injury
• Products Liability

• Car Accidents