Background
Levin, Joel was born on August 22, 1951 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Joel Levin
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University of Chicago (Bachelor of Arts, 1972. Master of Arts, 1973). University of Oxford, Oxford, England (Doctorate. Philosophy., 1981).
Boston University (Juris Doctor, 1977).
Career
Worked at Nurenberg, Plevin, Heller & McCarthy Company, Legal Professional Association (Cleveland, Ohio) specializing in Automobile, Aviation, Tort, Product Liability, Medical and Hospital Negligence, Workers Compensation, Railroad (F.E.L.A.) and Commercial Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1977, Massachusetts. 1984, Ohio; 1988, Pennsylvania.
United States.
Supreme Court. United States. Court of Appeals, 6th and 11th Circuit. United States. District Court, Northern District of Ohio.
Author: "Balance Theory of Contracts: Seeking Justice in Voluntary Obligations," 19 McGill Law Journal 24 (1983).
"Justification and the Law," 32 Emory Law Journal 987 (1983). "The Concept of the Judicial Decision," 33 Case Western Reserve Law Review 208 (1983).
"Constitutional Future of Statutes of Repose," Ohio Trial (1988). "How to Make Sense Out of Uninsured Motorists Law," C.W.R.U., Department of C.L.E. (1988).
"Striking the Balance in Contract Theory" 39 Cleveland State Law Review (1992).
How Judges Reason: The Logic of Adjudication, (1992). "The Action in the Transaction: Life Around the Contractual Edges," 58 In Brief 3 (1993). "Charles Dickens and the Uses of History: A Salute to Holdsworth," 14 Vera Lex 1 (1994).
"An Uncommon Lawyer," 34 Washburn Law Review 225 (1995).
Lecturer in Law, Case Western Reserve University, 1982. Special Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General, 1994.
Member, Consortium for the Study of Plaintiff"s Lawyering, Harvard Law School. Member: Cleveland, Ohio State and American Bar Associations.
Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. AMINTAPHIL.
NURENBERG, PLEVIN, HELLER & MCCARTHY Colorado., Legal Professional Association is a trial firm which concentrates its practice in a variety of tort areas, representing plaintiffs who sustain personal injury or death from medical malpractice, product liability, aviation, automobile casualty, workers compensation and railroad employment injuries (F.E.L.A.). The firm also represents clients in commercial litigation.
In practice for over 65 years, the firm has vast experience in the Trial and Appellate Courts of both the Ohio and Federal court systems
Members of the firm are additionally licensed to practice in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. The law firm was formed in 1928 by Abraham (Abe) H. Dudnik and Samuel F. Komito.
Originally, the focus was railroad law and other cases involving injured workers. The current senior partners have been with the firm for over 30 years.
The firm, now known as Nurenberg, Plevin, Heller & McCarthy Company, Legal Professional Association, consists of 25 lawyers and a support staff of over 40 additional personnel.
This personnel includes nurse paralegals, trial paralegals, investigators and additional support staff dedicated to maintaining the highest standards in the tort and commercial litigation fields of law. In particular, the firm has been active in complex product liability cases, and particularly in Aviation crash cases, including multi-district litigation throughout the country. lieutenant has also concentrated on complex physician, surgical and hospital malpractice, making use of its ability to team experienced trial lawyers with its large, in-house nursing support staff
Finally, the firm has long enjoyed a reputation throughout the State for its successes in challenging limitations, both statutory and insurance, to claimants" rights to file actions and collect damages.
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Member, Consortium for the Study of Plaintiff"s Lawyering, Harvard Law School. Member: Cleveland, Ohio State and American Bar Associations. Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
AMINTAPHIL.
