Adam Levitt has scored important wins leading dozens of significant litigations on behalf of individuals, businesses, and public clients and has built a firm that reflects his resolve for justice in all its dimensions.
One of the nation’s leading advocates for plaintiffs in complex multidistrict, commercial, public client, and class action litigation, Adam has delivered nearly $20 billion in recoveries to clients in biotechnology, financial services, consumer protection, automotive defects, agricultural products, antitrust, and securities disputes.
Adam‘s reputation for innovatively taking on tough cases has led to his appointment by State Attorneys General in the largest ongoing environmental PFAS water contamination cases of our time, and the historic litigation arising from Volkswagen’s emissions scandal, where, as a court-appointed member of a leadership group characterized as a “class action dream team,” he helped to secure a $16 billion settlement that benefitted car buyers across the United States.
Adam has also served as co-lead counsel in three of the largest biotechnology class actions in history. He secured $1.1 billion in settlements resulting from contamination of the U.S. rice supply with genetically modified seeds; helped to obtain a $550 million settlement on behalf of landowners and landscapers in a class action involving tree and other foliage death and harm caused by an herbicide; and recovered $110 million for farmers who sustained market losses on corn crops from contamination of the U.S. corn supply with genetically modified corn.
In addition to securing significant financial relief for his clients, Adam’s work has changed how biotechnology class action cases are litigated in the U.S. He co-created a game-changing economic model to measure crop contamination damages that set the modern industry standard.
Adam’s groundbreaking work has been recognized locally and nationally in prestigious ranking directories, including a Band 1 ranking for Mainly Plaintiffs Litigation (Illinois) by Chambers USA. Chambers USA also ranked Adam for General Commercial Litigation (Illinois) and nationwide for Product Liability Litigation, where the editors describe him as the “go-to plaintiffs’ attorney in the class actions space.” Benchmark Litigation awarded Adam National Litigation Star: Securities and Litigation Star in Illinois for the past three years. According to The National Law Journal, Adam is a “pioneer” in technology litigation, and Crain’s Chicago Business named him a 2021 Notable Gen X Leader in Accounting, Consulting, and Law.
An elected member of the American Law Institute and the Economic Club of Chicago, Adam considers the formation of DiCello Levitt in 2017 to be a pivotal moment in his decades-long legal career. With a shared vision, foundation of trust, and commitment to holding large companies accountable for injuries caused by their products and practices, he and his partners intend to maintain their industry-wide influence and successful track record for years to come.
Updated Sep 2023
