Stephen H. Weil

Stephen H. Weil serves as a Senior Attorney at Romanucci & Blandin, where he is co-lead of the firm’s civil rights practice group.  Steve focuses his practice on cases involving police misconduct, wrongful convictions, and the rights of people who are imprisoned.   

Steve previously led the prisoner rights practice at a national civil rights firm, where he handled all aspects of case investigations, discovery, depositions, briefing, trial, and overall management of the firm’s portfolio of prisoner cases. He began his legal career practicing complex civil litigation in the Washington, D.C. office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP.  Steve also served as a litigation fellow with the MacArthur Justice Center, where he litigated police cover-up 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 was a law clerk to Judge Robert E. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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