Hallie B. Levin's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including class actions, employment cases, and telecommunications litigation. Her recent matters include defending a major wireless services provider against multiple class actions alleging breach of contract, representing a liquidating trustee in connection with claims for breach of fiduciary duty and fraud, and defending an Ivy League university against allegations that a faculty member was denied tenure on the basis of gender.
Ms. Levin graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. She received her law degree cum laude in 1996 from Harvard Law School, where she served as Books and Commentaries Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She is the author of Judicial Deference to Agency Interpretation -- Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon, 109 Harv. L. Rev. 299 (1995), and D.C. Circuit Upholds Military Discharge Based on a Statement of Homosexual Orientation -- Steffan v. Perry, 108 Harv. L. Rev. 1779 (1995). After law school, Ms. Levin clerked for The Honorable David G. Trager of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and practiced at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She is the Membership Chair of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court and is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Tort Reform of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Committee on Federal Legislation.
Recent News Involving Hallie B. Levin
Firm Achieves Favorable Settlement for Cantor in Dow Jones Litigation
Landmark Synagogue Resolves Litigation Over 1998 Fire.
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