Background
Levine, Lee was born on November 20, 1954 in Brooklyn. Son of Fred Ralph and Lila Eileen (Gerstel) Levine.
Levine, Lee was born on November 20, 1954 in Brooklyn. Son of Fred Ralph and Lila Eileen (Gerstel) Levine.
University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, 1976. Master of Arts, 1976). Yale University (Juris Doctor, 1979).
Worked at Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P. Admitted to the bar, 1980, District of Columbia. Phi Beta Kappa. Managing Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1978-1979.
Partner, Ross, Dixon & Masback, L.L.P., 1987-1996. Author: "Newsgathering and the Law," Michie Company, 1997. "Implied Libel, Defamatory Meaning, and State of Mind," 78 Iowa Law Review 237, 1993.
"Branzburg Revisited: Confidential Sources and First Amendment Values," 57 George Washington Law Review 13, 1988. "Judge and Jury in the Law of Defamation," 35 American University Law Review 3, 1985. "Reckless Disregard," 56 George Washington University Law Review, 245, 1987.
"The Editorial Function and The Gertz Public Figure Standard," 87 Yale Law Journal 1723, 1978. Law Clerk to Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1979-1980. Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 1989.
Member: The District of Columbia Bar. American Bar Association (Past Chair, Forum on Communications Law). Charles Fahy American Inn of Court.
(Book by Dienes, C. Thomas, Levine, Lee, Lind, Robert C.)
Member American Bar Association (immediate past chairman forum on committee law, media law reporteradv. board), Institute for Judicial Administration, District of Columbia Bar Association, Charles Fahy American Inns of Court (barrister 1988-1990, master 1993-1996), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Shelley Andrea Block, June 19, 1977. Children: Sara, Hilary.