Practice Areas
AGRICULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION LITIGATION
APPELLATE AND POLICY ADVOCACY
CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION
CLASS ACTION LITIGATION
COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
INSURANCE LITIGATION
PHARMACEUTICAL FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE
PRODUCT LIABILITY
PUBLIC CLIENT
SECURITIES AND FINANCIAL SERVICES LITIGATION
PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY, AND CYBERSECURITY
WHISTLEBLOWER, QUI TAM, AND FALSE CLAIMS ACT
Career
Adam Levitt is one of the nation’s leading advocates for plaintiffs in complex multidistrict, class action, mass tort, public client, and commercial litigation. In his decades-long career, he has scored numerous significant and precedent-setting victories, delivering more than $20 billion in recoveries to clients in biotechnology, financial services, insurance coverage, consumer protection, automotive defects, agricultural products, antitrust, and securities disputes.
As a Founding Partner of DiCello Levitt, Adam has helped create a top-tier complex issues and trial firm that cultivates a diverse roster of skilled litigators to advance the cause of justice for individuals, businesses, and public clients. The firm’s attorneys are highly respected for their ability to litigate and win cases and have secured billions of dollars in recoveries for their clients through class action, business-to-business, whistleblower, personal injury, civil rights, and mass tort litigation.
Adam‘s reputation for innovatively taking on tough cases has led to his appointment to leadership positions in many historic and headline-grabbing litigations. He served as co-lead counsel and recovered more than $1.7 billion for plaintiffs in three of the largest biotechnology class actions in U.S. history: Genetically Modified Rice Litigation; Imprelis Herbicide Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation; and StarLink Corn Products Liability Litigation. He was appointed by state attorneys general to hold some of the world’s largest chemical companies accountable for widespread environmental contamination from the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). As part of a leadership group characterized as a “class action dream team,” Adam helped secure a $16 billion settlement in litigation arising from Volkswagen’s emissions scandal, and in a rare class action trial, he and his fellow co-lead counsel secured a landmark $102.6 million jury verdict against General Motors for hiding engine defects from consumers.
Adam is a leader in the legal profession and frequent speaker on multidistrict litigation, consumer protection, automotive litigation, biotechnology, corporate governance, securities litigation, and internet privacy. Nationally recognized as an authority on class action litigation, Adam writes a monthly class action column in The National Law Journal, has testified before the Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee on class action practice, and chairs an annual class action litigation conference in Chicago.
