Alison Leff
Partner
Biography
Alison is a partner at Loevy & Loevy. She represents clients in cases arising from wrongful convictions, police misconduct, and abuses in prisons and jails.
Before Loevy, Alison litigated police misconduct and prisoners’ rights cases at the Civil Rights Group, LLC, which she co-founded. Alison was also previously pro bono counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, managing the firm’s prisoners’ rights project. Before that, Alison was a litigation partner at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, where she represented clients in complex commercial litigation.
Alison graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2008. During law school, Alison was an intern at the Federal Defender Program and a student attorney with the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project of the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic.
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar), Central District of Illinois, Northern District of Indiana, Southern District of Indiana, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Western District of Wisconsin, and Western District of Texas
- U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits
Education + Honors
- University of Chicago Law School, J.D. (with honors)
- University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (cum laude)
Our Impact
Loevy + Loevy has won more multi-million dollar verdicts than perhaps any other law firm in the 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.
Read the latest public reporting and press releases about Loevy + Loevy’s clients, our public interest litigation, and our civil rights impact.
We take on the nation’s most difficult public interest cases, advocating in and outside the courtroom to secure justice for our clients and to hold officials, governments, and corporations accountable.
