Senior Attorney Stephen H. Weil

Background

Stephen H. Weil serves as a Senior Attorney at Romanucci & Blandin, where he focuses his legal practice on cases involving civil rights, police misconduct, wrongful convictions and prisoners’ rights, working closely with Founding Partner Antonio Romanucci and Partner Bhavani Raveendran.

Steve brings extensive experience to the firm. Most recently, he led the Prisoner Rights Project at a Chicago-based civil rights law firm, where he handled all aspects of case investigations, discovery, depositions, briefing, trial, and overall management of the firm’s portfolio of prisoner rights cases. He has also led multiple civil rights and Americans with Disabilities Act cases involving police misconduct and conditions of confinement across the country. Previously, Steve defended class actions and other complex civil litigation for a national defense firm in Washington D.C., and he served as a litigation fellow with the MacArthur Justice Center, affiliated with the Northwestern University School of Law, where he litigated police coverup and wrongful conviction matters.

Steve earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, with studies at the London School of Economics. After law school, Steve served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

He is admitted to practice in Illinois before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois, Western District of Wisconsin, Western District of Michigan, District of Columbia, and Northern District of Indiana.

Steve speaks Spanish. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two children in his free time.