Martin E. Levin

Martin E. Levin has more than 25 years of government and private practice experience in environmental and other complex litigation.
In private practice, Mr. Levin has represented businesses and individuals in environmental, toxic tort, insurance, and commercial litigation. He has also defended individuals and corporations throughout government enforcement actions for serious workplace injury and environmental violations.  Recent litigation has included:

• Successfully undertaking the appeal of an adverse judgment that had denied compensation for contamination at an industrial site; Mr. Levin subsequently won a multimillion dollar settlement for the plaintiff. 
• Winning class certification for Mattapoisett homeowners in the pending case seeking compensation for pollution caused by the Buzzards Bay oil spill in 2003.    
• Winning a multimillion dollar settlement for insurance coverage and unfair business practice claims in a case arising from fire at an industrial site.
• Along with Max Stern, Mr. Levin acts as co-lead counsel in the defense of a product supplier charged with manslaughter in connection with the 2006 collapse of the Boston “Big Dig” tunnel.

While in government, Mr. Levin was Massachusetts’ chief environmental prosecutor for a decade.  He directed investigations into environmental and occupational health hazards. His precedent-setting cases include the civil action against GE for failure to notify the government of PCB contamination caused by company wastes used as residential fill; a record criminal disposition, including the state’s first order mandating corporate audits of occupational safety and environmental compliance, for hazardous waste violations; and the landmark convictions establishing the crime of assault and battery for exposing employees to hazardous materials. Mr. Levin also drafted the state’s public employee whistleblower protection law and environmental endangerment law.

Mr. Levin has appeared and argued at every trial and appellate level, including the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Harvard Law School and lectured before a variety of business, labor, professional, and academic audiences. He graduated cum laude from Yale College in 1978, and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981.

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Martin Levin
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617-742-5800 ext. 121
E-mail: mlevin@sswg.com