We are pleased to announce that Founding Partner Adam Levitt and Chicago Office Managing Partner Amy Keller were named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ Notable Leaders in Accounting, Consulting, and Law. Adam and Amy were selected for this honor because of their exceptional leadership and promotion of inclusive practices at DiCello Levitt and in the legal profession at large.
As one of the nation’s leading advocates for plaintiffs in complex litigation, Adam currently serves or has served as lead or co-lead counsel in many large and consequential class actions, including numerous automotive defect class actions against Ford, Honda, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz, as well as GM, where he helped secure a landmark $102.6 million jury verdict against the major American automobile manufacturer for hiding engine defects from consumers. He also leads the litigation against makers and marketers of medications that include the ineffective nasal decongestant phenylephrine and is frequently appointed by state and local governments to recover the public’s damages and penalize corporate wrongdoing. He has been retained by multiple State Attorneys General in the largest ongoing environmental PFAS water contamination cases of our time and by the City of Baltimore to address the catastrophic impact of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, one of the largest maritime disasters in U.S. history.
Adam was commended by Crain’s Chicago Business for his leadership of some of the country’s largest class action and multidistrict litigations, including as an executive committee member in the Volkswagen “clean diesel” litigation, where he helped secure a 2019 settlement in excess of $17 billion, one of the largest consumer protection settlements in U.S. history. He was also recognized for his role as plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel on the team that secured a $135 million settlement in January 2020 on behalf of 66,000 truck owners and lessees who alleged Navistar sold and leased vehicles with dangerously defective emissions systems. Crain’s Chicago Business also cited his active membership in the American Law Institute and the Economic Club of Chicago.
Amy is the chair of DiCello Levitt’s Privacy, Technology, and Cybersecurity Practice Group—the only group to be recognized by Law360 for three consecutive years as Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group of the Year. In the past four years, she has been appointed to leadership in ten multidistrict cases—the most of any woman in the United States—to pursue lawsuits on behalf of hundreds of millions of consumers whose privacy rights have been infringed by industry giants like Equifax, Quest Diagnostics, Apple, and T-Mobile. She currently leads the litigation against Marriott for claims arising from its 2018 data breach of 300 million consumers’ personal information and, among her many victories for consumers, helped secure a $21 million settlement in 2022 against defendants associated with the Fairlife milk brand in one the highest animal welfare labeling practices settlements ever.
Amy was recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business for her historic achievement of becoming, at 34, the youngest woman to lead a nationwide, multidistrict litigation when she was appointed co-lead counsel in the case against Equifax related to its massive 2017 data breach and ultimately secured a settlement for $1.5 billion in consumer relief and business practice reforms. She also was noted for her leadership on the executive committee of the Public Justice Foundation, on the board of governors of the American Association for Justice, and as an elected member of the American Law Institute.
To read their profiles in Crain’s Chicago Business’ 2024 list of Notable Leaders in Accounting, Consulting, and Law, click here.