Randall (“Randy”) Levine represents clients in the energy, telecommunications, health sciences, and pharmaceutical industries in state and federal appeals, complex multidistrict litigation, and class action litigation. He represents clients in multiparty, multiclaim litigation following environmental and other legal crisis scenarios, and he has been involved in formulating broad-based litigation and global settlement strategies in some of the United States’ largest and most complex civil proceedings before state and federal courts, state agencies, and state public utility commissions.
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.
Recommended, Industry Focus: Environment: litigation, The Legal 500 US (2019, 2022, 2023)
Recommended, Dispute Resolution - Appellate, The Legal 500 US (2019)
Recommended, Dispute Resolution - Appellate - Supreme Court (federal and state), The Legal 500 US (2017, 2018)
Recommended, Industry Focus - Environment - Litigation; Industry Focus - Environment - Regulatory, The Legal 500 US (2016)
Recognized, Rising Star, Washington, DC Super Lawyers (2014–2022)
George Washington University Law School Moot Court Board
Articles Editor, The Public Contract Law Journal
Order of the Coif
Phi Beta Kappa