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Michael W. Robinson

Michael W. Robinson

www.levick.com
Senior Vice President
Levick Strategic Communications
Washington, DC

Practice Areas

White Collar Criminal Defense
Business Litigation
Complex Litigation

Education

Lehigh University B.A. Government 1985
Columbia School of Law J.D. 1989
Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review
Professional experience

Matthew Levine is a Principal in the New York office of Fish & Richardson. Prior to joining the firm, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for 10 years. From 2001 through 2007, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. From 1998 through 2001, Mr. Levine served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia. He has prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases and investigations, tried 17 jury trials and over 20 bench trials to verdict, and briefed dozens of appeals, arguing a number of them before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, the New York State Appellate Division and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

In 2007, Mr. Levine served as Acting Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Business & Securities Fraud Section, supervising a group of federal prosecutors conducting major securities fraud and other prosecutions. Mr. Levine also personally handled some of the U.S. Attorney Office’s most high-profile securities and white collar prosecutions. These include his role as lead counsel in the seven-week trial in United States v. Tomo Razmilovic, et al., a prosecution involving the former CEO, CFO, and other members of senior management of the global technology provider, Symbol Technologies. The indictment charged a wide-ranging accounting fraud, as well as the first-in-the-nation stock options backdating fraud. Mr. Levine also served as co-lead counsel in United States v. Evergreen International Spot Trading, Inc., a three-month jury trial leading to the convictions of the former senior management of a Wall Street brokerage firm that defrauded investors of over $100 million.

As both the Acting Chief and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Business and Securities Fraud Section, Mr. Levine handled numerous securities fraud and white-collar investigations involving insider trading, accounting fraud, private placement fraud, stock manipulation, computer intrusion, bank fraud, tax fraud, mortgage fraud, commodities fraud, and money laundering. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Levine also served as Criminal Health Care Fraud Coordinator, where he developed and supervised the investigations and prosecutions of health care fraud offenses.

Mr. Levine began his career in the Justice Department in 1997 serving as Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was responsible for overseeing relationships with state Attorneys General, local law enforcement agencies and law enforcement advocacy groups.

Mr. Levine has previous experience in litigation with a major New York law firm, where he represented corporate and individual clients in all phases of civil and criminal matters, including the defense of securities fraud and shareholder litigation, antitrust litigation and commercial arbitrations. Mr. Levine also served as a Law Clerk to Chief United States District Judge Barefoot Sanders of the Northern District of Texas.

Bar admissions

Admitted to the bar in New York, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Additional information

While in private practice Mr. Levine previously served as the outside general counsel to the Educational Alliance, Inc., a large non-profit social service provider, and as outside counsel to Children’s Rights, Inc., an independent non-profit agency that advocates for children.