Harlan A. Levy

Partner
New York City

t: 212 446 2360
f: 212 446 2350

hlevy@bsfllp.com

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Area of Practice

Litigation

Education

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

Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude, American Studies, 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 District Courts: Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Harlan A. Levy, an accomplished commercial litigator and criminal defense lawyer, has been a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner since the year 2000. Mr. Levy practices in areas including antitrust, auditing, corporate governance, corporate fraud, and internal investigations.

Mr. Levy has extensive experience as a commercial litigator.

He currently represents plaintiffs in a federal court action against two banks for their role in a major corporate fraud.
He also represents a corporation litigating Texas Water Rights in federal court.
He represented an accounting firm in a fraud and malpractice case brought against it by a corporation in federal court.
He represented a corporation in an antitrust class action alleging price fixing in federal court.
He represented a leading national newspaper in a litigation with a sports league over the right to sell photos of games over the internet in New York State Court.

He has noteworthy experience in litigation relating to experts.

He has examined or worked with experts in areas of antitrust economics, computer software, corporate financial fraud, Generally Accepted Auditing Standards, human genetics, international currency trading, polygraph exams, psychiatry, and statistics.
His article on "Making Experts Matter" was published in the Evidence issue of Litigation Magazine (American Bar Association: 2008).
His expert cross examination in United States v. Pappas was described as "masterful" by the Bureau of National Affairs Criminal Practice Guide and reprinted in that publication.
He lectured at a Federal Bar Council Program on examining and cross examining expert witnesses at trial.

Mr. Levy is active in the field of criminal defense and corporate fraud and has been described as "a renowned criminal defense attorney" (Court TV).

He has represented corporations in internal investigations in the United States and abroad.
He represented a French accountant prosecuted for his alleged role in a fraud by a French bank in the United States District Court for the District of Los Angeles.
Mr. Levy represented at trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York a medical doctor charged with falsely billing non-reimbursable fertility procedures as reimbursable gynecological procedures to private insurance companies.
He has represented union officials, political figures and securities brokers in various state and federal investigations and prosecutions.
Mr. Levy is Vice Chair of the White Collar Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a member of the Council on Criminal Justice of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

He is a highly experienced trial lawyer.

He defended a French bank at trial in a civil action brought in New York State Supreme Court by Venezuelan investors for their international currency trading losses.
He defended a medical doctor at trial in a federal prosecution for insurance fraud in federal court.
He defended a young man prosecuted for arson at trial in New York State Supreme Court based on a false confession.
He served as an Assistant District Attorney and homicide prosecutor in the Major Offense/Career Criminal Bureau of the New York County District Attorney's Office and tried eighteen felony cases with a 94% conviction rate.

Mr. Levy was an early pioneer of the use of DNA in criminal cases and continues to have a significant role in that field.

He is the author of a popular book about the legal and scientific issues surrounding DNA in criminal cases, "And The Blood Cried Out" (Basic Books/ HarperCollins: 1996).
"And the Blood Cried Out" was reviewed as "superb" by The Wall Street Journal and was published in Japan and as a mass market paperback.
His March 2006 New York Times Op-Ed "Caught Up in DNA's Growing Web" was named first among the "Best Columns in the United States" by "The Week," a magazine that surveys world news and opinion.
He was keynote speaker at a 2006 national conference on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

Mr. Levy has commented extensively on legal issues in newspapers and on television, has been quoted in The New York Times and USA Today, and appeared on Lou Dobbs, Rivera Live, Firing Line with William F. Buckley, and the Today Show. He has been named a New York Super Lawyer in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fund for Modern Courts, an organization advocating court reform.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

Member, Board of Directors, Fund for Modern Courts.

Selected Publications

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

Caught Up in DNA's Growing Web, The New York Times, Op-Ed page (March 17, 2006)

Investigations and Litigation in America, Ireland Chamber of Commerce (2005)

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

And the Blood Cried Out (Basic Books/ HarperCollins: 1996)