Levitt LLP

Levitt LLP

Senior Partner: Steven L. Levitt

Managing Partner: Karen L. Weiss

Mineola, Long Island, New York, USA

Firm Overview

Levitt LLP is a boutique law firm that litigates complex business, contract, trade secrets and other disputes on national and international levels, and additionally handles multi-million dollar transactions.

Levitt LLP's Principal, Steven L. Levitt, has tried and/or resolved in excess of $2.8 billion worth of complex (and often highly technical) business, contract, business divorce, and trade secrets disputes before trial courts, appellate courts, and arbitration tribunals across the country, as well as internationally.

Levitt LLP has represented companies of all sizes, including household names, across Long Island, New York, New York City, and beyond, including L3 Technologies, Inc., Loral Corporation, Mercury Systems, Inc., East Coast Petroleum, Inc., GFI Capital Resources Group, Inc., Snapple Beverage Corp., and Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., as well as numerous well-known law firms, accounting firms, and medical practices.

Levitt LLP's clients are frequently the proverbial ‘underdog’, while its adversaries are frequently titans of their industries, and wealthy foreign governments, invariably represented by Am Law 100 law firms, or their international equivalents.

Levitt LLP's party opponents have included Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian Sultanates, Lockheed Martin Corp., British defense contractor Serco, Inc., The Men’s Wearhouse, Inc., global freight forwarder Kalitta Air LLC, and Westchester, New York and Connecticut real estate mogul John Fareri.

Levitt LLP was chosen as one of three law firms to represent a group of six high profile law firms following a landmark products liability lawsuit against the tobacco industry. In another matter, Levitt LLP defended a business unit of a Fortune 200 Company as co-lead counsel against potential $2 billion exposure arising from aircraft modifications, first succeeding in obtaining a unanimous jury verdict for the client, then in affirming the verdict on appeal, and finally, in defeating the plaintiff’s application to have the case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Frequently, Levitt LLP and Mr. Levitt are called on to oversee teams of attorneys across different law firms, in multi-venue litigations. In one matter, the team overturned a jury verdict against the client in excess of $125 million. In a second matter, the team overturned a jury verdict against the client for in excess of $37 million plus plaintiff’s counsel’s request for approximately $16 million in legal fees as a result of plaintiff’s misconduct during discovery. In a third matter, over the course of a decade-long, multi-jurisdiction litigation, the team obtained two appellate court reversals of trial court rulings, and then successfully resolved the dispute, which involved allegations of thefts of trade secrets and bid-rigging with a prime contractor to wrongfully obtain nuclear readiness subcontracting work that the client had performed for many years for the U.S. Military. Today, Levitt LLP and Mr. Levitt continue to oversee counsel in various jurisdictions nationwide, including Nevada, Oregon, Wisconsin, Florida, and Connecticut.

Over approximately the past year alone, Levitt LLP has won trials and arbitrations where the amounts at issue totaled in excess of $50 million. Levitt LLP has also recently acted as lead counsel for the seller in the complex, multi-million dollar sale of the historic Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton, New York.

Levitt LLP has received many recognitions for its outstanding achievements. Mr. Levitt was honored by his alma mater, the Hofstra University School of Law, and was selected for inclusion in the inaugural class of the Hofstra University School of Law Hall of Fame.

Recently, Mr. Levitt was inducted to the panel of neutrals of Mediation Solutions of New York, an alternative dispute resolution tribunal.

Levitt LLP and Mr. Levitt have been profiled in such publications as Forbes, The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, The New Yorker, The Real Deal, The Long Island Pulse, The Long Island Herald, and Newsday, just to name a few. Moreover, Levitt LLP attorneys have been continually recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine as New York Metro Super Lawyers, for 11 years running.

Mr. Levitt has also given back as a lecturer at the Hofstra University School of Law, and has made contributions to community organizations, including as a sitting member of the Zoning Board of Appeals for the Incorporated Village of Muttontown.

Offices

Mineola, Long Island, New York, USA

+1 516-248-9700

[email protected]