Hallie B. Levin
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 in a class action alleging breach of contract, fraud and violation of consumer protection statutes, representing Eastern European and U.K. entities in a commercial contract and fraud dispute that implicated jurisdictional issues, and defending an Ivy League university against allegations that a faculty member was denied tenure on the basis of gender.
Ms. Levin has been selected as a New York Rising Star for 2011. The list of New York Rising Stars is comprised of the top up-and-coming attorneys who are under 40 or have been practicing in New York for ten years or less.
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 currently serves as Secretary of the Federal Bar Council. She is the former Membership Chair of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court and served as the Chair of the Subcommittee on Tort Reform of the New York City Bar's Committee on Federal Legislation.
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