Steven Levin

Steven M. Levin is the co-founder and senior partner of Levin & Perconti, and a trial lawyer with more than 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's personal injury firm with more than 200 years of combined trial experience. Steve represents individuals and families in all types of personal injury and wrongful death matters, including those involving nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice, car and trucking accidents, product liability, and premises liability. Steve is recognized as a pioneer, and one of the country's top litigators, in the highly-specialized area of nursing home abuse and neglect litigation. 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. This includes the largest nursing home verdict ever reported in Cook County. Steve has appeared on many news programs for cases which have attracted both local and national attention. Steve has obtained an extraordinary number of multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients in all types of medical malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. Most recently, Steve obtained a $17.7 million medical malpractice settlement for a former police officer who suffered a devastating brain injury due to nursing staff negligence at a Chicago hospital. Other notable 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.