Attorney Profiles

Jon Loevy is an accomplished trial lawyer, having obtained more than $50 million in jury verdicts for his clients, as well as millions more in settlements. At one point, Loevy won ten civil rights jury trials in a row, almost exclusively in cases with very challenging fact patterns.

Loevy has also won seven of the last eight civil rights appeals he has argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the majority of which were on behalf of the Appellant.

Loevy's firm, Loevy & Loevy, specializes in police misconduct cases. The firm has filed more police abuse lawsuits than any other firm in the City of Chicago.

Loevy's $28 million verdict in Regalado v. Chicago in 1999 is 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 numerous other difficult civil rights cases, including Manning v. United States in 2005 ($6.6 million against two FBI agents); Ware v. City of Chicago in 2007 ($5 million); Waits v. Chicago in 2002 ($2 million); Garcia v. Chicago in 2003 ($1 million); and Russell v. Chicago in 2003 ($1.5 million); and, most recently, Dominguez v. Waukegan in 2006 ($9 million).

After one victory, the Honorable James F. Holderman of the Northern District of Illinois summarized Loevy's trial skills in a written decision reported at Garcia v. Chicago, 2003 WL 22175620 (N.D.Ill. 2003):

Jon Loevy is an outstanding trial lawyer. . . Not only did Jon Loevy display tremendous advocacy skills during the trial before the jury, he handled all the matters involved in this litigation with great aplomb. His case was well organized. The evidentiary progression was easy to follow. His examinations of adverse witnesses, and his dealing with the sometimes improper tactics of his opposing counsel, were highly professional.

Jon Loevy's poise, analysis, and demeanor in front of the jury, as well as his rappier like cross examination style, are reminiscent of the trial skills displayed by some of the nationally recognized trial lawyers in this community when they were the age that Jon Loevy is now. Among those nationally recognized trial lawyers whose trial skills the court is familiar with when they were Jon Loevy's age are: Royal B. Martin of Martin, Brown and Sullivan; Michael D. Monico of Monico, Spevack and Pavich; Thomas R. Mulroy of McGuire Woods; Anton J. Valukas of Jenner & Block; and Dan K. Webb of Winston & Strawn. Additionally, Jon Loevy's overall performance ranks among the finest displays of courtroom work by a plaintiff's lead trial counsel that this court has presided over in several years.

Loevy graduated from Columbia Law School in 1993, where he served as a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review. At Columbia, he was a Kent Scholar (approximately top 1% of the academic class), as well the recipient of the Young B. Smith Prize given to the student with the top examination in torts, and the Paul R. Hayes Prize given to the student with the top exam in civil procedure.

Upon graduating, Loevy clerked for Judge Milton I. Shadur of the Northern District of Illinois for a year, after which he took a year off and travelled around the world. Upon returning home, he joined the firm then-known as Sidley & Austin, where he spent a year and a half before leaving to start his own firm, first as a solo practitioner, and then in partnership with his wife, Danielle Loevy.

The firm he formed, Loevy & Loevy, has since grown to include 12 lawyers, and is the largest firm devoted to civil rights in the Chicago. Loevy's firm, located in the West Loop, specializes in police misconduct, including police brutality, wrongful convictions, police shootings, false arrest, and other violations of constitutional rights.