June 15 -- Levitt & Kaizer Senior Appellate Associate Yvonne Shivers will participate in a panel discussing appellate advocacy at St. Francis College.

May 22 -- Richard Levitt will deliver a lecture to the Legal Aid Society, Criminal Division, Brooklyn titled  "Wayward Warrants: Challenging Court Ordered Searches and Seizures." View PDF of his presentation here.

April 18 -- After our client's innocence proffer in a large Internet gambling case brought under New York's OCCA law (similar to RICO) and a further good faith investigation by the prosecutor and his detectives, the Queens District Attorney's Office announced in open court that it was withdrawing all charges against our client.  Case dismissed. Record sealed.

April 15 -- Richard Levitt's 2013 Second Circuit Criminal Law Outline is available as a free download here.

April 11, 2013 -- Richard Levitt gave his annual Second Circuit Lecture in the Ceremonial Courtroom of the Southern District of New York Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street. Download Keynote slides here or view PowerPoint slides here (PP slides may not be identical to Keynote slides due to upload anomalies).

February 22 -- Hon. Robin S. Rosenbaum (S.D.Fla.) today granted the joint defense motion to change venue from the Southern District of Florida to the Eastern District of New York in U.S. v. Weaver et al., 12-cr-20756.  The principal memorandum in support of the motion was filed by Levitt & Kaizer partner Nicholas Kaizer and a separate memorandum in support of the motion was filed by cocounsel James Spertus of Los Angeles, CA. See Judge Rosenbaum's opinion here.

January 24, 2013 -- North Law Publishers, Inc. publishes the new 2013 edition of Just The Rules, the ever-popular pocket-sized compendium of the complete: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Admiralty and Maritime Rules and Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Also included are essential excerpts from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and selected bail, immigration, and sentencing statutes.  Buy it here.

January 16, 2013 -- Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis (EDNY) grants petition for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of William Lopez, in a murder case the judge says was "rotten from day one."  Richard Levitt and Yvonne Shivers represented Mr. Lopez.  Read Judge Garaufis' 85-page opinion here. See article here.

View our recently filed motion to change venue in U.S. v. Weaver et al., 12-cr-20756 (S.D.Fla) here.

September 20, 2012 -- Read press account here of trial proceedings in U.S. v. Fazio after juror allegedly  remarked, after Richard Levitt's summation, "that was really good" and was discharged from the jury.

April 17 - Richard Levitt's Annual Second Circuit Criminal Law Lecture, sponsored by the New York Criminal Bar Association and the Legal Aid Society, 5:30 pm, 8th Floor Meeting Room at the Southern District Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, New York, New York

March 8 - Judge Pisano (D.N.J.) today granted the defendants' Rule 29 motion to dismiss in U.S. v. Muhlstock, agreeing that the proof prejudicially varied from the indictment and that the government failed to prove that the charged wires were connected to the indicted scheme.  We were pleased to have assisted Ed Sapone in the preparation of the Rule 29 papers.  Ed brilliantly tried the case to a hung jury prior to the court's decision dismissing the indictment.  See decision here

Yvonne Shivers, Senior Appellate Attorney at Levitt & Kaizer, publishes habeas corpus article in Atticus Magazine, titled, "Use It Or Lose It." Read articlehere

October 5 - Habeas Granted:  Today, the Hon. William M. Nickerson of the District of Maryland granted the habeas corpus petition filed by Levitt & Kaizer and Raymond Granger and Associates on behalf of their client Christopher Cartwright.  Mr. Cartwright, a successful and respected businessman working in the aviation field, pleaded guilty to an honest services fraud conspiracy and received probation.   In light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Skilling v. United States, 130 S.Ct. 2896 (2010), Levitt & Kaizer and Raymond Granger and Associates filed a habeas corpus petition, arguing that the conduct to which Mr. Cartwright pleaded guilty was no longer a crime.  The government acknowledged that the habeas petition should be granted and the parties entered into an agreement to affectuate that result.  See court’s order here.

September 5 - Levitt & Kaizer is pleased to welcome Emily Golub to the firm. Ms. Golub is a recent graduate of NYU Law School, where she served as a Student Instructor in NYU’s Prisoners’ Rights and Education Project and worked as a Student Attorney at NYU's Federal Defender Clinic.

 

June 2, 2011 - North Law Publishers, Inc., publishes, "The Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010," by Knox Dobbins and Jason Stone, the first book devoted solely to Title X of Dodd-Frank.  Available as a fully searchable PDF download or in hard copy  Download Power Point demonstration here

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