Mel Levine is a partner in the Century City and Washington, D.C. offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He served as a member of the United States Congress from 1983 until 1993 and as a member of the California Assembly from 1977 to 1982.  He is a member of the bar in California and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Levine is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Public Policy  and its Crisis Management practice groups.  Mr. Levine’s practice  concentrates on counseling clients on the public policy aspects of complex domestic and international transactions.  His clients have included companies involved in a range of industries, including technology, energy, entertainment, health care, defense, manufacturing, construction and telecommunications.

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The Spindle Law Blog is shifting into lower gear for the summer as I take a short, but needed, sabbatical through August.  If you’ve been following our profiles in the Spindle Law Interviews series, rest assured there will be more profiles forthcoming.  My colleague Nick Diamand is taking over the blog for a bit while I study for and take the bar exam, and escape to the wilds of Alaska for a couple of weeks. If you happen to have missed the interviews with Ken Feinberg, Susan Crawford, Erwin Chemerinsky, to name just a few, please check out the entire series here. (Or just browse through all the post archives.)

In the meantime, I — in fact, we all — hope you have the chance to get out and enjoy what summer has to offer. I’ll be back posting from the beginning of September 2011.

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