Steven M. Levin
Levin & Perconti
Steven M. Levin is the co-founder and senior partner of Levin & Perconti, and a trial lawyer with over 40 years of litigation experience and success. In 1992, he and John Perconti founded Levin & Perconti, which has since grown into a thirty-lawyer plaintiff personal injury firm with more than 200 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 high-profile personal injury and wrongful death cases, including birth injury, failure to timely diagnose cancer, and workplace negligence. His firm’s most recent victories include a $40 million birth injury verdict, a $29 million settlement on behalf of a child who suffered injuries due to a delayed c-section, and a $17.7 million settlement on behalf of an injured police officer who sustained a brain injury.
Steve has appeared on several news programs for cases that have attracted both local and national attention. Steve is a pioneer in the area of nursing home abuse and neglect and is one of the first attorneys in the country to prosecute these types of cases. He is a founding member and one of the original officers of the American Association for Justice Nursing Home Litigation Group. 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 the mistreatment of one of society's most vulnerable groups will not go unnoticed. These cases have raised the standard of care.
- 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
- FaceTime
- Skype
- Zoom
- Microsoft Teams
- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
- Illinois
- 7th Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- English: Spoken, Written
- Founder and Senior Partner
- Levin & Perconti
- - Current
- 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
- Leading Lawyers
- Leading Lawyers Network
- Designation as "Leading Lawyer" in the Leading Lawyers Network is a peer-recommended distinction
- The Best Lawyers in America
- The Best Lawyers in America® International
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, 2013 - 2025
- Illinois Super Lawyer
- Super Lawyers
- 2005-2024
- Illinois Top 100 Attorneys
- Chicago Lawyer Magazine
- Trial Lawyer Excellence
- Legal bulletin publishing company
- Illinois State Bar
- Member
- Current
- The Decalogue Society of Lawyers
- Lifetime Board Member
- Current
- The American Bar Association Tort and Insurance Practice Section
- Medicine & Law Committee Vice-Chair
- Current
- National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform and its Committee of 20
- Current
- Attorney General of Illinois Task Force on Nursing Homes
- Current
- Listen, Validate, Flip,
- Plaintiffs’ Perspectives
- Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Long Term Care Litigation Handbook
- How Changes to the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act Will Affect Long-Term Care Abuse and Neglect Cases
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin – Law Day Edition
- 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
- Weaving a Nursing Home Deposition Strategy
- Trial Magazine
- Ex Parte Communication with Current and Former Employees of Defendant.
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA)
- Settlement Strategies: How to Value, Negotiate, & Mediate to Get the Best Results
- AAJ Elder Abuse College
- Update on Nursing Homes, Update and Review Seminar
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
- 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