David H. Levitt is a partner in the Chicago office of Hinshaw & Culbertson, which he joined in
1979. He is chair of the DRI Task Force on Third Party Litigation Funding (part of DRI’s Center
for Law and Public Policy) and was principal author of its 2018 White Paper, Third Party Litigation
Funding: Civil Justice and the Need for Transparency. Mr. Levitt is Past President of Illinois Defense
Counsel and Past Chair of DRI’s Intellectual Property Committee. He received his J.D. from Loyola
University of Chicago School of Law and his L.L.M. in Intellectual Property from the University of
Illinois Chicago School of Law.