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
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- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Illinois State Bar
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- American Association for Justice
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- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
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- Chicago Bar Association
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- American Bar Association
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- Illinois
- 7th Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
- Medical Malpractice
- Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
- Nursing Home Abuse
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- 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
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