Loevy & Loevy

Specialties

Loevy & Loevy has won more multi-​million dollar jury verdicts than perhaps any other civil rights law firm in the entire country over the past decade. Our willingness to take hard cases to trial and win them has yielded a nationally recognized reputation for success in the courtroom. This is no accident. Our elite team of lawyers graduated with highest honors from the top law schools in the country. Because we only agree to represent people in whose causes we passionately believe, we forge close bonds with our clients and are proud to have achieved outstanding results for them with truly uncommon consistency. As one of the nation’s largest and most successful civil rights law firms, we are dedicated to seek justice for those whose civil rights have been violated and for whistleblowers.

History

Established in 1997.

Our firm was founded in 1997 by attorney Jon Loevy after he left the international law firm Sidley & Austin. Since then, Jon has been joined in partnership by his wife, Danielle Loevy, Arthur Loevy, Mike Kanovitz, Russell Ainsworth and Dan Twetten. Today, the firm’s attorneys are widely recognized as being among the nation’s leading civil rights lawyers due to their accomplishments as trial attorneys – winning more than a dozen jury verdicts of more than $ 1 million.

Meet the Business Owner

Jon L.

Business Owner

Jon Loevy is an extremely accomplished trial lawyer, having won more than $ 100 million in jury verdicts for his clients, all in cases involving challenging fact patterns and difficult to prove allegations. Loevy has won 20 out of his last 22 jury trials, including his last eleven in a row.

As lead counsel, Jon Loevy has won 13 separate million or multi-​million dollar jury verdicts. This includes a $ 28 million jury verdict in Regalado v. Chicago in 1999, still the largest civil rights verdict in the City’s history. Since that time, he has received million dollar-​plus jury verdicts as lead counsel in eleven other «long shot» cases.

Loevy is also a highly successful appellate lawyer. Civil rights cases are notoriously difficult to win, but Loevy has won 13 out of the last 17 appeals he’s argued before the federal appellate courts (including wins in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits), the majority of which were on behalf of the appellant seeking to overturn an adverse ruling.