Debra Loevy
Partner
- 312-243-5900
- debra@loevy.com
Biography
Debra Loevy is a partner at Loevy & Loevy. She graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995, having completed her undergraduate work at Wesleyan University with a B.A. in history in 1992. After law school Debra spent years addressing poverty law issues at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and at Vermont Legal Aid. Debra also spent several years focusing on criminal defense appeals at the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender. She joined Loevy & Loevy in 2007, with a practice concentrated primarily on appeals.
Bar Admissions
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court District of Vermont
• U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts
• Supreme Court of Illinois
• State of Illinois
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Education + Honors
The University of Michigan Law School
• J.D. – 1995
• cum laude
Wesleyan University
• B.A. – 1992
• History
Clerkships & Past Employment
• Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
• Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender
Representative Cases
• People v. Ware (Illinois Appellate Court) Appellate counsel for Marvin Ware, who seeks to reinstate his post-conviction petition demonstrating that DNA evidence proves his innocence. Mr. Ware’s petition was dismissed without a hearing, despite compelling evidence of his innocence. The Illinois Appellate Court has reversed that dismissal.
• Hurt v. Wise (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) Appellate counsel for plaintiffs who, as teenagers, were falsely accused of murder. The defendant police officers have argued that they are entitled to qualified immunity for coercing false confessions from plaintiffs. Appeal pending.
• Henry v. Hulett (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) Appellate counsel for a class of plaintiffs who were subjected to extremely degrading prison strip and body cavity searches as a cadet training exercise. The appeal explores the extent and contours of prisoners’ Fourth Amendment rights. Appeal pending.
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.
