LeRoy Martin, III

Trial Attorney at Cooney & Conway
Chicago, IL

About LeRoy Martin, III

Prior to joining Cooney & Conway, LeRoy Martin, III served as an Assistant State’s Attorney at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, where he worked in the Criminal Appeals Bureau, Child Abuse and Neglect, Juvenile Delinquency Division, Felony Review Unit, Preliminary Hearing Unit, and Felony Trial Division. During his career as a prosecutor, LeRoy tried countless bench trials, litigated contested motions, and researched and wrote numerous appellate briefs related to felony crimes, arguing orally before the Illinois First District Court of Appeals. LeRoy also indicted over a hundred felony cases in grand jury proceedings as well as litigated over fifty contested felony preliminary/probable cause hearings.

LeRoy Martin III received his B.A. from Tennessee State University in 2014 and his J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2017. While in law school, LeRoy clerked for the Durham County Public Defender’s Office Criminal Division. LeRoy is admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois and the Northern District of Illinois, and he is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the Cook County Bar Association.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Cooney & Conway

These results are credited to Cooney & Conway. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$34.1 millionVerdict

A Madison County jury awarded James Hutcheson $34.1 million after he developed mesothelioma from asbestos exposure during contract work at Shell Oil's Wood River, Illinois refinery in the 1950s and 1960s.

Madison County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2000Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$20 millionSettlement

Chicago agreed to pay $20 million to the families of Fausto Manzera and Andrew Cazares, two men killed in 2009 when off-duty detective Joseph Frugoli struck their disabled vehicle on the Dan Ryan Expressway with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit, after trial evidence exposed the department's years-long failure to discipline Frugoli for prior suspected drunk driving.

Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois / Chicago City Council approval · 2018Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$9 millionVerdictTop 10 in Delaware · #6

A Delaware jury returned a unanimous $9 million verdict on July 23, 2025, in the first case ever tried over asbestos-contaminated shotgun shells, holding DuPont and Remington's successor liable for the mesothelioma death of Eugene Schoepke, an 84-year-old Illinois farmer and lifelong hunter.

Delaware Superior Court, New Castle County (asbestos docket); on appeal, Delaware Supreme Court · 2025Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

North Carolina Central University School of Law
J.D., 2017
Tennessee State University in 2014 and his J
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois

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