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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. Steve began his career as a private criminal defense attorney, during which time he gained extensive trial experience. In 1983 he founded Steven M. Levin and Associates, a firm dedicated to representing plaintiffs in substantial personal injury and wrongful death cases. In 1992, he and John Perconti founded Levin & Perconti, which has since grown into a twelve-lawyer plaintiff personal injury firm with more than 125 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. His comments on nursing home litigation are frequently quoted in national news publications including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Steve Levin has received an "AV" rating from the Martindale-Hubbell American Law Directory, indicating preeminent legal ability and very high ethical standards. Steven has been honored as an Illinois Super Lawyer by Chicago Magazine in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. He has also been named one of Illinois' top litigators by Leading Lawyers Network, a peer-recommended distinction.

Title	Publisher	Published
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
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
Plaintiff's Perspectives	IICLE Long Term Care Litigation	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
First Things First: Evaluating a Nursing Home Case	Illinois State Bar Journal	July, 2000
Litigating Nursing Home Wandering Cases	Elder's Advisor: The Journal of Elder Law and Post-Retirement Planning	September, 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