Mr. Levin-Epstein joined the firm in 1991 with fourteen years experience as a Federal and State prosecutor. He is a trial lawyer who devotes the major portion of his practice to the defense of white-collar, financial and other complex criminal cases and the representation of individuals and business entities in grand jury investigations. He also represents individuals in employment and discrimination-related matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Levin-Epstein served as a criminal prosecutor in several jurisdictions. Most recently he was the First Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Connecticut. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York (in Brooklyn, New York) and as an Assistant District Attorney in the Rackets Bureau of the New York (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office. He also served as a Legal Advisor to the Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department.
Mr. Levin-Epstein has been listed since 1999 in the attorney peer-reviewed publication Best Lawyers in America in the Criminal Law and White Collar Criminal Defense sections. He has also been included in Connecticut Super Lawyers, a publication of Connecticut Magazine. As such, he has been included in articles in New York Magazine and Connecticut Magazine on the best lawyers in the tri-state area.
Mr. Levin-Epstein has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Bridgeport and Brooklyn Law Schools, where he taught advanced courses in Trial Advocacy and Federal Criminal Jurisprudence. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer of Constitutional Law at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and has been a frequent speaker at professional and government-sponsored seminars and in-service training programs. He has been a featured speaker at the F.B.I. Academy at Quantico, Virginia.
Mr. Levin-Epstein is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts in the District of Connecticut and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. He is also admitted to practice in the States of Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts.
He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Federal Bar Council (on which he served as a Trustee), the Connecticut Bar Association (in which he serves as the Co-Chair of its Federal Practice Section and member of the Section’s Executive Committee and on which he has served as Chair of its Criminal Practice Sub-Committee. He is also a member of the CBA’s Criminal Practice Section), a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and the Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association (CELA).
Representative Matters
United States v. Ern-Len
In this ten-week multi-defendant money laundering and conspiracy criminal jury trial, he was successful in obtaining an acquittal for his client.
United States v. Lundwall
In this federal criminal case of first impression, an executive of a Fortune 500 corporation was charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice for allegedly destroying and concealing documents that pertained to a federal civil case against the company alleging race discrimination. It was reportedly the first time this theory had been used to prosecute a criminal case of obstruction of justice. Attorney Levin-Epstein was successful in obtaining an acquittal of his client.
In addition, he has been involved in the representation of numerous targets, subjects and witnesses in federal grand jury and state investigations into such diverse allegations as mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, antitrust violations, health care fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, bribery, violation of the Hobbs Act (extortion under color of official right), Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO), false statements, perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit these and numerous other offenses.
He has successfully negotiated numerous settlements for clients with claims for wrongful discharge, age discrimination, sexual harassment and discrimination, breach of employment contracts and claims arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
