Harlan A. Levy

Partner
New York City

t: 212 446 2360
f: 212 446 2350

hlevy@bsfllp.com

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Areas of Practice

Litigation

Investigations / Corporate Governance

Education

Columbia Law School, J.D., 1980; Charles Evans Hughes Fellow

Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1977; Psi Upsilon (“First Citizen of the College”) Prize

Clerkships

Hon. Leonard P. Moore, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1980-1981

Admissions

New York

United States Court of Appeals: Second Circuit

United States District Courts: Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Harlan A. Levy has been a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP since 2000. His practice focuses on business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and internal investigations. Mr. Levy is a trial lawyer and has tried numerous cases in federal and state court. In 2009 Mr. Levy successfully defended Delta Air Lines in a trade secret and employment litigation with American Airlines, winning denial of a preliminary injunction in federal court in the Southern District of New York, and won dismissal of an indicted white collar criminal case pending in New York State Supreme Court. Mr. Levy has extensive experience in civil and criminal cases involving fraud, including those at Tyco, Cendant, Enron, and Credit Lyonnais. He is "a renowned criminal defense lawyer" (Court TV) and was listed in the current edition of Corporate Counsel's "Super Lawyers" magazine as a top attorney in white collar criminal defense.

Mr. Levy's article about examining expert witnesses at trial, "Making Experts Matter" (Litigation Magazine: 2008) was selected by an American Bar Association publication as the best article in ABA publications in the field of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Levy's book on DNA, "And the Blood Cried Out" (Basic Books/Harper Collins), was reviewed as "superb" by The Wall Street Journal and is excerpted in the Foundation Press Casebook on Evidence. His New York Times Op-Ed "Caught Up in DNA's Growing Web" was named best column in the United States by the international magazine The Week.

Earlier in Mr. Levy's career he was law clerk to a federal appeals judge in the Second Circuit; a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel; and a homicide prosecutor in the Major Defense/Career Criminal Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

He has appeared over 100 times as a trial commentator on Court TV.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

Chair, Council of Criminal Justice, New York City Bar Association

Board of Directors, Fund for Modern Courts (Executive Committee, and Co-Chair, Nominating Committee)

Board of Directors, New York Council of Defense Lawyers

Transition team, New York County District Attorney Elect Cyrus R. Vance (Co-Chair, Special Victims Committee) (2009)

Selected Publications and Presentations

Author, And the Blood Cried Out (Basic Books/ HarperCollins: 1996) (hardcover); (Avon Books: 1997) (mass market paperback); (Hara Shoba: 1998) (Japanese)

Speaker, New York City Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program on Standards for Prosecuting Corporate Fraud by Federal and State Agencies: The Impact of the Revised Justice Department Charging Guidelines (2009)

Author, Making Experts Matter, Litigation Magazine (American Bar Association: 2008)

Author, Caught Up in DNA's Growing Web, The New York Times, Op-Ed page (2006)

Keynote Speaker, Conference on The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University, co-sponsored by the National Institute of Health (2006)

Speaker, Federal Bar Council Continuing Legal Education Program on Examining and Cross Examining Expert Witnesses (2005)

Author, Defending Federal Criminal Investigations, New York Law Journal (2002)