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"There are two things the people of Lansdale and Towamencin can count on," Levine said in announcing his candidacy. "My love of the North Penn community, and my commitment to serve the people of the North Penn community through hard work.” Upon moving to Lansdale in 2001, Levine began attending Temple University at night and clerked for the Magisterial District Judge David A. Keightly in the Lansdale/Montgomeryville District Court during the day. Levine immersed himself in the inner workings of the local judiciary and gained extensive experience dealing with traffic law, civil claims, landlord/tenant disputes, and preliminary criminal matters. In 2005, Levine served as a summer associate at the prestigious Lansdale law firm of Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg and Gifford. During his last year of law school, Levine worked at the law firm of Villari, Brandes and Kline in Conshohocken, focusing on Education Law and Personal Injury plaintiff's work. Levine graduated from law school in 2006, where he was a member of the Political and Civil Rights Law Journal, President of the Student Bar Association Evening Division, was recognized as an Outstanding Oral Advocate and Received Honors in the area of Cyberlaw. Currently a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar associations, Levine joined the firm of Duffy Connors in Exton Immediately after being admitted to the bar, where he specialized in Workers Compensation and Personal Injury Defense. In the fall of 2007, Levine left the Exton firm to expand his legal knowledge through freelance projects and to spend more time with his sons. Over the past year, Levine has worked on several complex projects for such prestigious Philadelphia law firms as Saul Ewing, Dechert, Pepper Hamilton, and Morgan Lewis. Levine, a native of the Washington, DC area, graduated from the University of Maryland in 1993 with a degree in journalism, and worked several years in the media industry, including two years with the Discovery Channel. |
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