Randall Mark Levine

In the environmental space, Randy represents clients in litigation and appeals arising from contribution actions, enforcement proceedings, citizen suits, mass and toxic tort litigation, and regulatory matters, including actions under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), the Clean Water Act, and analogous state laws.

Randy has worked on several high-profile environmental crisis cases for clients in the energy industry. He represented a nonoperating investor in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill multidistrict litigation and associated appeals to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the US Supreme Court. Randy also represented the Southern California Gas Company in state and federal courts and before the California Public Utilities Commission in connection with a major natural gas leak from an underground natural gas storage facility.

Randy is an active member of the firm’s crisis management practice, using his experience at every stage of complex multiparty cases arising from environmental crisis scenarios to help train clients’ teams on crisis management and dealing with crisis litigation.

• Represented a nonoperating investor in the In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon multidistrict litigation in the US Eastern District of Louisiana, and in related appeals to the Fifth Circuit and US Supreme Court
• Represents a major investor-owned natural gas utility and its corporate parent in state and federal court and before the state public utility commission in mass tort litigation arising from a gas leak from an underground natural gas storage facility
• Represented an aerospace technology company in a successful appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a CERCLA contribution action for costs to clean up a WWII-era production facility
• Represented and negotiated favorable settlements for a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in complex multidistrict mass tort litigation alleging public nuisance arising from prescription opioid abuse
• Represented New York public school districts in connection with federal district court class action litigations, and on appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Represented a New York public school district in insurance coverage litigation in New York state court
• Represented a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider in multidistrict class action litigation and related actions before the public utilities commissions of multiple states
• Represented a competitive local exchange carrier in a contested matter in bankruptcy court
• Represented competitive local exchange carriers in connection with tariff disputes in state public utilities commissions and state and federal court