Paul Connery

Partner

13 yrs experience
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Bar admitted 2013
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Chicago, IL

Bar admissions

Illinois
2013

Education

J.D.: Loyola University Chicago School of Law2013
Undergraduate: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2010

Awards and recognition

01Law Bulletin '40 Attorneys Under Forty Attorneys to Watch' (2025)
02Leading Lawyers: Emerging Lawyer (2025)
03Super Lawyers Rising Stars

Memberships

Life Span Board of Directors (since 2018)

Background

Paul J. Connery is a Partner at Levin & Perconti in Chicago, focusing on personal injury, medical malpractice, and nursing home negligence. He began his legal career as a 7-11 law clerk in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, litigating over 100 motions and bench trials. As an Assistant State's Attorney, he served in the Appeals Division (drafting 25+ appellate briefs and arguing three cases before the First District Appellate Court) and spent three years in the Narcotics Prosecutions Bureau, helping to found the Chicago Prostitution and Trafficking Intervention Court. After a stint in civil defense litigation, he joined Levin & Perconti in 2020 to represent plaintiffs and was later named partner.

Notable cases

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$12.2M nursing home negligence verdict (reported Illinois record)
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$2M hospital pressure injury settlement
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$750K nursing home pressure ulcer settlement

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