About Mark
Mark Loevy-Reyes has built a legal career that moves between public interest work, municipal service and private practice. He trained first as a political scientist and later as a lawyer, then added graduate study in education. The mix shows in the variety of roles he has held over three decades.
He earned a B.S. in political science from Northern Illinois University in 1985. He later attended Cornell Law School and holds a J.D., earned in 1992. He returned to graduate study in the 2010s and holds an M.A. in education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2011). Those academic stops bookend an early immersion into legal aid and municipal law.
Loevy-Reyes began his career in community-oriented practice. In 1992 he joined Prairie State Legal Services as a staff lawyer, handling matters typical of nonprofit legal help centers. A few years later he moved into municipal service as senior counsel in the City of Chicago Law Department beginning in 1995. That post put him inside the machinery of city governance and litigation for several years.
By 2002 he was working for the Disability Law Project, where he served as a lawyer addressing issues that affect people with disabilities. In 2004 he joined Loevy & Loevy, the firm listed among his current offices. He has also taught: in 2012 he served as an adjunct professor at Antioch University New England, combining classroom work with ongoing practice.
His admissions cover multiple state and federal jurisdictions. He is licensed to practice in Illinois, New York and Vermont, and he is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. That range reflects a career that has moved between direct client representation, administrative and municipal roles, and appellate practice.
Colleagues and clients see his path as steady rather than linear. He has moved from legal aid into city government, into specialized disability work, and then into private firm practice. That sequence gives him experience in courtroom work, government lawyering and advocacy for vulnerable populations. He has also maintained ties to teaching and legal education.
He practices at Loevy & Loevy in a role informed by earlier public interest and municipal experience. His current work continues to draw on the mix of litigation and policy perspectives developed over the course of his career.
