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
- 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.
- Honors: cum laude
- Founder and Senior Partner
- Levin & Perconti
- - 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
- Plaintiff's Perspectives
- IICLE Long Term Care Litigation
- Litigating Nursing Home Malpractice
- GP Solo Magazine
- Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Actions in the Elderly Population
- The Advocacy & Litigation SIG Advocate: National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc.
- 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
- Screening the Nursing Home Case
- Nursing Home Litigation: Investigation and Case Preparation
- Litigating Nursing Home Wandering Cases
- Elder's Advisor: The Journal of Elder Law and Post-Retirement Planning
- First Things First: Evaluating a Nursing Home Case
- Illinois State Bar Journal
- Protecting the Rights of Nursing Home Residents Through Litigation
- Illinois State Bar Journal
- Nursing Homes and Life Care Communities
- IICLE, Advising Elderloy Clients and Their Families
- A Question of Responsibility: Part Two - An Attorney's View of the Insanity Defense
- Loyola Magazine
- 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
- Structuring the Deposition of a Difficult Witness
- American Association for Justice, Nursing Home Depositions College
- Deposing Nursing Home Staff and Corporate Representatives in Nursing Home Injury Cases
- Strafford Nursing Home Depos Webinar, CLE Webinar
- Ex Parte Communication with Current and Former Employees of Defendant
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA)
- Elder Law Practice in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Nursing Home Litigation for the Elder Law Practitioner, Chicago, IL
- Pretrial Preparation in Civil Practice, Deposing Adverse Parties and Expert Witnesses, Chicago, IL
- Personal injury in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, Chicago, IL
- The John Marshall Law School
- Winning Your Case Through Depositions, Advanced Nursing Home Litigation Seminar, Atlantic City, NJ
- New Jersey Association for Justice
- Nursing Home College: Depositions, Washington, D.C.
- American Association for Justice
- Research Strategies for Expert Depositions and Trial Preparation in Nursing Home Cases, AAJ 2012 Annual Convention, Chicago, IL
- American Association for Justice
- Voir Dire: Legal & Strategic Issues, Lunchtime Seminar Series, Chicago, IL
- Circuit Court of Cook County
- Advanced Evidentiary Issues at Trial, Chicago, IL
- IICLE
- Litigating Nursing Home Cases Seminar: From Case Selection to Trial, Boston, MA
- American Association for Justice
- Wound Care and the Law: Liability and Other Issues for the Practicing Wound Care Clinician, ACWHTR Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
- The American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair
- Taking Doctors to Task: The Ethics of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, National Jewish Retreat, Chicago, IL
- The National Conference of Jewish Lawyers
- Plaintiff and Defense Points of View on Recent Wound Care Topics, ACWHTR Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
- 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
- Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education
- Illinois Top 100 Attorneys
- Chicago Lawyer Magazine
- Trial Lawyer Excellence
- Legal bulletin publishing company
- Illinois Super Lawyer
- Super Lawyers
- 2005-2017
- 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
- Designation as "Leading Lawyer" in the Leading Lawyers Network is a peer-recommended distinction
- 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
- 7th Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
- Medical Malpractice
- Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
- Personal Injury
- Products Liability
- Car Accidents
- English: Spoken, Written
- Website
- Steven M. Levin's Website Profile
- Website
- Levin & Perconti Website
- Blog
- Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog
- Blog
- Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog
- Blog
- Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog
- Blog
- Chicago Birth Injury Lawyer Blog
- Blog
- Chicago Car Accident Lawyer Blog
- Blog
- Illinois Truck Accident Lawyer Blog
- Blog
- Chicago Brain Injury Lawyer Blog