Alison Leff
Of Counsel
Biography
Alison is an attorney at Loevy & Loevy. She first joined Loevy in 2018 and then returned to the firm in 2024 after three years away.
Alison represents clients in cases arising from wrongful convictions, police misconduct, and abuses in prisons and jails.
Before rejoining Loevy, Alison co-founded Civil Rights Group, LLC, where she litigated police misconduct and prisoners’ rights cases. 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 Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Trial Bar
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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.
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