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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Reynold Levy has been the President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City since 2002, continuing a distinguished career of public service.  Mr. Levy was previously President of the International Rescue Committee, the senior officer of AT&T in charge of government relations, President of the AT&T Foundation, Executive Director of the 92^nd Street Y, and Staff Director of the Task Force on the New York City Fiscal Crisis.

A graduate of Hobart College, Mr. Levy holds a law degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.  He has served as a consultant, volunteer, and board member of numerous nonprofit and profit organizations.  Mr. Levy is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee, a trustee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, of Third Way, and of the Revson Foundation, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association. Read the rest of this entry »