Lisa Weinstein

Lisa Weinstein is a principal at Grant & Eisenhofer and leads the firm’s birth injury litigation division. Her practice primarily focuses on representing women and children in birth injury and birth trauma litigation. Prior to joining G&E, Ms. Weinstein founded The Weinstein Law Group, where she represented children who were victims of medical malpractice and birth injuries. In her practice as a plaintiffs’ trial lawyer, Ms. Weinstein has successfully litigated personal injury, medical malpractice and birth injury matters resulting in over $300 million in settlements and verdicts. Representative of Ms. Weinstein’s work is a $12.5 million settlement in which her client’s child suffered brain damage due to lack of oxygen during the labor and delivery process, and over 20 other seven-figure settlements. In 2020 and 2021, Ms. Weinstein was selected for inclusion to the Illinois Super Lawyers list. For eight years prior, she was selected to Illinois Super Lawyers’ list of Rising Stars. Ms. Weinstein was also named to the National Law Journal’s list of Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Trailblazers for 2020. She has also been honored by The National Trial Lawyers in the “Top 40 Under 40” for the past seven years and for the past two years, has been named in the “Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in Illinois.” Ms. Weinstein is a member of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and Board Member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. She is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum as well as the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, recognized for her work in obtaining several notable settlements and verdicts. Additionally, she served as co-chair of the American Association for Justice Birth Trauma Litigation Group and an Arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County.