MICHAEL BONAMARTE IV, MANAGING PARTNER: LEVIN & PERCONTI

In March of this year, Michael Bonamarte IV obtained a $40 million verdict in Coles County on behalf of a now 20-year-old girl who suffered brain damage as a result of not being delivered by c-section in a timely fashion. The verdict, the largest medical malpractice verdict to date in Illinois outside of Cook County, speaks to one of Bonamarte’s key strengths, which is his ability to connect with a jury. Bonamarte is a skilled and passionate attorney who has achieved outstanding results in a number of high-profile medical malpractice, nursing home, wrongful death, and personal injury cases. He has a special respect and admiration for the elderly, which our society so often fails to honor. As Managing Partner at Levin & Perconti, Bonamarte interacts regularly with younger lawyers, helping them strategize, plan, and think about their cases in a way that everything they are doing helps move cases forward. “I try to remind them that while sometimes the work is hard and we get anxious about how many cases we have, we can’t forget that behind each case is a person with a story who has often come to us at the worst time in their life,” he says. Bonamarte graduated from John Marshall Law School in Chicago and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the founder and president of the Michael Bonamarte III Foundation, named in honor of his father. The foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and funding research on the treatment of strokes.

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