Background
Levy, Mark Irving was born on June 28, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Kenneth Warren and Arleen (Langhaus) Levy.
Levy, Mark Irving was born on June 28, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Kenneth Warren and Arleen (Langhaus) Levy.
Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, 1971. Juris Doctor, 1975). Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient, Israel H. Peres Prize, Yale Law School, 1975.
Executive Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1974-1975.
Law Clerk to Honorary Gerhard A. Gesell, United States. District Court, District of Columbia, 1975- 1976.
Assistant to the Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice, 1979-1981, 1983-1986. Member and Treasurer, Executive Committee, Yale Law School Alumni Association, since 1986.
Worked at Howrey & Simon (Washington, District of Columbia) specializing in Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1976, District of Columbia. 1977, United States. District Court, District of Columbia.
1980, United States.
Supreme Court. 1987, Illinois. 1990, United States. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Circuits and United States.
Tax Court. 1993, United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
1994, United States. Court of Appeals, Second, Fourth and Tenth Circuit.
1996, United States. Court of Appeals, Third and Fifth Circuits and United States. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient, Israel H. Peres Prize, Yale Law School, 1975.
Executive Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1974-1975. Author: "High Court Takes Care of Business," 18 National Law Journal C8, July 29, 1996. "Amicus Briefs in the Supreme Court: The Need for a Corporate Amicus Program," 8 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Docket 18, American Corporate Counsel Association, Winter 1990, reprinted in 12 Business Counsel 3, United States.
Chamber of Commerce, Spring 1990.
"There is a Studied Way to Practice Preventive Law in the Supreme Court," 8 Preventive Law Reporter 6, September 1989. Note, "The Function of the Preliminary Hearing in Federal Pretrial Procedure," 83 Yale Lord Justice 771, 1974.
Company-Author: "The Supreme Court"s Rules for the "90s," 76 American Bar Association J. 70, April 1990. "The Constitutionality of Punitive Damages," 73 American Bar Association J. 88, 1987.
Lecturer: "Supreme Court Review," Washington Legal Foundation"s Media Briefing, February 1996.
"Supreme Court Review," American Trucking Associations" Forum for Motor Carrier General Counsel, June 1995. Presentations on "Appellate Brief Writing" and "Oral Argument," Fifth Circuit Bar Conference on Appellate Practice and Advocacy, March 1994. "Appellate Advocacy in the 1990"s," American Bar Association Section of Litigation, October 1991.
"How to Prepare for an Oral Argument in the "90s," American Bar Association Section of Litigation, August 1991.
"Amicus Curiae Briefs in Preemption and Products Liability Cases," Product Liability Advisory Council, April 1991. "Punitive Damages," Young Presidents" Organizations of South Bend, Indiana, March 1991.
"Containing Runaway Legal Costs," Illinois Manufacturers" Association Program, September 1990. "Amicus Curiae Briefs," American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Products Liability Committee, April 1990.
"Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy," Yale Law School, February 1990 and November 1991.
"Amicus Briefs in the Supreme Court," presented to the Conference on Preventive Law held by the American Corporate Counsel Association and the University of Denver College of Law"s National Center for Preventive Law, July 1989. Law Clerk to Honorary Gerhard A. Gesell, United States. District Court, District of Columbia, 1975-1976.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States.
Department of Justice, 1993-1995. Assistant to the Solicitor General, United States.
Department of Justice, 1979-1981, 1983-1986. Former Member and Treasurer and Member, Executive Committee, Yale Law School Alumni Association, 1987-1990.
Member: The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
The Law Club of Chicago.
Member American Academy Appellate Lawyers, Law Club of Chicago, Yale Law School Alumni Association (former treasurer, Executive Committee member 1987-1990), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Judith Jarrell Levy, September 8, 1979. Children: Elizabeth Sara, Mitchell Bennett.