JAYME LEVIN-MURIEL
Phone: 312-220-9112 ext. 214

Jayme Levin-Muriel recently re-joined Spain, Spain and Varnet P.C. as an associate. She first began at the firm in April of 1997 after starting her legal career as a staff attorney at the Center for Disability and Elder Law (formerly the Legal Clinic for the Disabled, Inc.) providing legal services for the elderly and people with disabilities. Ms. Levin-Muriel practices in the area of estate planning with a focus on planning for persons with disabilities, in addition to probate practice concentrating on disabled minor and disabled adult guardianships and decedent’s estates matters. She has been a frequent speaker for special education departments/schools, advocacy groups, service providers for persons with developmental disabilities and trainings for legal services organizations.

From 2007 – 2018, Ms. Levin-Muriel remained at home with her three children and volunteered for numerous committees and community organizations including the NSSD 112 School Board Caucus, Allianza Dual Language Advocacy Group, local food pantries, her religious congregations, and myriad school committees for her children’s elementary, middle, and high schools. She was an elementary school room parent for 10 years and served as the Co-President of the Northwood Junior High PTA. Ms. Levin-Muriel co-founded the Northwood Junior High PTO and performed all of the legal work necessary to incorporate and establish that non-profit organization.

Ms. Levin-Muriel was born in Connecticut and lived there until she attended undergraduate school at Tulane University in New Orleans; she graduated with honors and majored in English and Psychology. She then relocated to Chicago to attend law school and graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1993. Ms. Levin-Muriel served as a Board Member for the Illinois National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys chapter and was very active in the Chicago Bar Association where she served in various capacities on the Special Committee Celebrating the International Year of the Older Person, Legislative Committee and Legal Aid Committee, and as a member of the Probate Practice, Elder Law, and Legal Services for People with Disabilities Committees. Ms. Levin-Muriel also served on the Board of Directors of Illinois Citizens for Better Care, and in 2000 she was awarded the Chicago Bar Association and Chicago Bar Foundation’s Maurice Weigle Exceptional Young Lawyer Award honoring a young lawyer for “initiative and exceptional contributions to the profession, the organized bar and the community.”