Steve Art joined Loevy & Loevy in 2011.
Steve graduated from Northwestern University School of Law, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, in 2009. During law school, he served as Executive Articles Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review, and won the Julius H. Miner Moot Court Competition, the Raoul Berger Prize in writing, the Lowden-Wigmore Prize, and Senior Research Honors. At Northwestern University, Steve worked on wrongful convictions and international human rights cases in the Bluhm Legal Clinic, he served as an officer of the American Constitution Society and the Public Interest Law Group, and he was a member of the Public Service Honor Roll. He also served as a judicial extern to Hon. Mark Filip of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Following law school, Steve served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit during the court’s 2009-10 and 2010-11 Terms. In addition to that appellate experience, Steve has participated in the drafting of merits briefs in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and amicus briefs and petitions for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Steve is a founding member of the Justice Council of the Center on Wrongful Convictions and has served in the past as a volunteer for the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, the ACLU of Illinois, and Cabrini Green Legal Aid. Before becoming a lawyer, Steve worked in the music industry in Chicago.
