Jeff Levy has over thirty years of experience as an attorney in private practice, as in-house counsel, and as a mediator and arbitrator. 

Experienced Business LITIGATOR AND MEDIATOR

Jeff began his career as an associate in the litigation department of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, and worked as a litigator for sixteen years at firms in Minneapolis and Boston. He has represented clients in numerous mediations, private arbitrations, bench trials and jury trials. He has also served as an arbitrator in securities cases and is a trained mediator. Jeff’s substantive areas of litigation experience include trusts and estates, complex contract disputes, intellectual property, trade secrets, employment law, and securities disputes.

TRUSTED GENERAL COUNSEL

From 2008 through 2013, Jeff was a corporate attorney at Veolia Water Americas, a division of the world’s largest private operator of water and wastewater treatment plants. As EVP & General Counsel, he served on the executive committee and had responsibility for all of the company’s legal affairs in North and South America. Jeff advised the company in connection with its existing contracts for the design, construction and operation of municipally-owned treatment plants, and was lead counsel on numerous municipal procurement efforts. He also represented Veolia Energy, which owned and operated municipal steam networks in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other North American cities. His other responsibilities included employment counseling, internal investigations, management of outside litigation counsel, and overseeing M&A activity.

Strategic Legal Advice, Excellent Business Judgment

After leaving Veolia, Jeff returned to private practice in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Drawing on his years of law firm and corporate experience, he provides strategic legal and business advice and represents clients in transactions, employment matters and dispute resolution. Jeff often acts as an outside general counsel to clients without an in-house legal department, handling most projects himself and consulting with other legal specialists where required. He is especially familiar with the legal and business issues faced by foreign companies as they expand into the North American market. Jeff is rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell®.

Jeff lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He and his wife, Gayle Goldin, have two grown sons, two dogs (with a combined three eyes), and two cats (with the expected four eyes). He currently serves as a volunteer lawyer for the ACLU of Rhode Island and as a voter protection attorney for the Florida and Pennsylvania Democratic Parties. For many years he was a board member, board president and coach for Fox Point East Side Little League. As a member of the European Company Lawyers Association advisory council, Jeff contributed a chapter to Company Lawyers: Independent By Design, published by Lexis/Nexis Europe in 2014.

EDUCATION & CLERKSHIP

  • Carleton College, B.A.

  • University of Minnesota Law School, J.D.

  • Law Clerk to The Honorable Gerald W. Heaney, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

bar admissions

  • Rhode Island

  • Massachusetts

  • Minnesota

  • United States Supreme Court

  • United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Eighth Circuits

  • United States District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island, and the Eastern District of Wisconsin

PRACTICE AREAS

  • Business Litigation

  • Trust and Estate Litigation

  • Mediator and Arbitrator

  • Business Transactions

  • Employment Disputes and Counseling

  • Non-Compete Agreements

  • Corporate Governance 

  • Compliance and Internal Investigations

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