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WilmerHale Offices
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Hallie Levin
Work Department
Class Actions ; Commercial Litigation ; Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force ; Government and Regulatory Litigation ; Litigation ; Securities Enforcement ; Securities Litigation ; State Attorneys General ; Trials
Position
Partner
Co-Chair, Trial Practice
Career
Hallie B. Levin is a seasoned trial lawyer who serves as lead counsel on high-stakes commercial disputes in federal and state courts and arbitral tribunals. Ms. Levin represents clients in connection with a broad range of matters, including complex contractual disputes, antitrust cases, business torts, trade secrets cases, and high-stakes government investigations, including those brought by state Attorneys General. In recent years she won a resounding victory as co-lead trial counsel for clients T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom in a landmark antitrust trial in which Attorneys General from 13 states and the District of Columbia failed in their effort to enjoin the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. Ms. Levin examined critical witnesses at trial, including T-Mobile’s CEO and its President. Ms. Levin was named as Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer Litigation Daily and a Winning Litigator by The National Law Journal in 2020 for her work on the trial, and the favorable outcome was reported worldwide, including in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and Bloomberg.
In 2021, Ms. Levin was again named Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer Litigation Daily after serving as lead trial counsel in a complete victory for T-Mobile in a breach of contract dispute against Cox Communications before the Delaware Court of Chancery. In 2021, Ms. Levin was also featured in The American Lawyer Litigation Daily as a Litigation Leader and was named among The American Lawyer‘s 2021 Northeast Trailblazers. She was honored in the 2020 and 2021 editions of Benchmark Litigation as one of the Top 250 Women in Litigation, and was selected by Benchmark Litigation in its 2021 edition as Local Litigation Star in New York.
Her skills in the courtroom, her nuanced strategic insights and guidance, and her commitment to delivering efficient results have earned her the trust and loyalty of clients across a diversity of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, consumer products, hedge funds and media.
Professional Activities
Ms. Levin has demonstrated her commitment to improving the legal profession and system through her active leadership of some of New York’s most prominent professional organizations. She has served as Vice President of the New York City Bar Association, as well as the Chair of its Executive Committee. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Federal Bar Council, and has also served as its Vice President and Secretary. She has also served as Vice President of the Federal Bar Foundation. She was a founding member of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court and served as its membership chair.
Memberships
- New York
- US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- US District Court for the Southern District of New York
- US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- US District Court for the Eastern District of
Education
JD, Harvard Law School, 1996
BA, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
(Leading lawyers)WilmerHale routinely handles commercial litigation at all levels of the state and federal court systems. Sector expertise across finance, tech, and life sciences is a defining characteristic of the team’s ‘deep bench of super smart, experienced, and highly respected litigators’, who have also carved out a niche in credit reporting litigation. Boston’s John Butts chairs the group and devotes much of his practice to cases involving business torts, trade secret, and contract disputes as well as consumer and securities class actions. In New York, Hallie Levin is known for her work in antitrust cases, business torts, trade secrets cases, and government investigations, while Noah Levine is a key contact for class actions. Boston-based Felicia Ellsworth is highly experienced in government-facing investigations, including those brought by state Attorneys General, and appears in high-profile cases before the Supreme Court. From the Palo Alto office, ‘master strategist’ Sonal Mehta is in-demand for patent and technology disputes. Andrew Rhys Davies joined the practice from A&O Shearman in March 2023 and is praised as ‘a tremendous appellate advocate’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- General commercial disputes United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense