Hallie Levin is a seasoned trial lawyer who serves as lead counsel on high-stakes commercial cases. She repeatedly garners media recognition for winning at trial— including complex contract disputes, antitrust cases and business torts—with significant impact on both well-known corporations and consumers. Her skills in the courtroom, nuanced strategic insights and ability to deliver efficient results have earned her the trust of clients across a diversity of industries.
Among the leading first-chair trial attorneys of her generation, Hallie has received numerous professional recognition and accolades. In 2023 she was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the profession’s most prestigious membership organizations. For several years she’s been named to Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women of Litigation list and a local Litigation Star in New York. She received The American Lawyer Litigation Daily Litigator of the Week honor two years in a row – in 2021 for her victory in Cox Communications v. T-Mobile US and in 2020 for her victory in State of New York, et al v. Deutsche Telekom AG, et al. She has been named a Northeast Trailblazer by The American Lawyer, a Winning Litigator by The National Law Journal, a Leading Lawyer by Legal 500 for General Commercial Disputes and is Chambers ranked for General Commercial Litigation in New York where she is described as “an incredibly strong attorney and advocate.”
In the past three years alone, she secured three major victories for clients at trial. In 2022, she achieved a complete victory for Reckitt Benckiser following a four-week jury trial in the District of New Jersey, where plaintiff Absorption Pharmaceuticals sought $454 million in damages for alleged fraud and misappropriation of trade secrets. In 2021, she served 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. And in 2020, she won a resounding victory for clients T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom in a landmark antitrust trial in the Southern District of New York in which 14 Attorneys General attempted to enjoin the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. The lawsuit was the first time states joined to block a merger approved by federal agencies.
Other representations include:
- Lead trial counsel for a major financial services firm in a FINRA arbitration involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty and theft of confidential information. The FINRA panel denied plaintiff ’s multimillion-dollar claims in their entirety.
- Co-lead trial counsel in a four-month jury trial, in New Jersey state court defending a prominent financial services company against billion-dollar claims of civil racketeering and unfair competition.
Hallie has held leadership roles in some of New York’s most prominent professional organizations, including the New York City Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council, the Federal Bar Foundation and is a founding member of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court.
Updated Sep 2023
