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In recent years, Mr. Levine has spearheaded efforts to challenge the federal excise tax on long distance communications. He has been lead counsel for the taxpayer in approximately two-thirds of the tax refund actions in which enterprise customers have prevailed, including American Bankers Ins. Group, Inc. v. United States, 408 F.3d 1328 (11th Cir. 2005), rev’g, 308 F. Supp. 2d 1360 (S.D. Fla. 2004); OfficeMax, Inc. v. United States, 428 F.3d 583 (6th Cir. 2005), aff’g, 309 F. Supp. 2d 984 (N.D. Ohio 2004); Fortis, Inc. v. United States, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1868 (S.D.N.Y. 2004); Reese Brothers Inc. v. United States, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27507 (W.D. Pa. 2004); and Honeywell International, Inc. v. United States, 64 Fed. Cl. 188 (2005). Mr. Levine has also counseled users and carriers on the treatment of wireline and wireless services for FET purposes. From 1983 through 1992, Mr. Levine was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Morrison & Foerster, where he founded (and chaired) the firm's Communications Group. He was a member of the Committee on Technologically Enhanced buildings of the National Research Council, has been retained by the United States General Services Administration to provide strategic advice and assistance in connection with FTS2001 (through which the government purchases much of its telecommunications services), was counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of Enterprise Customers in the WorldCom bankruptcy proceeding, and serves as a member of the Executive Board of the New York Telecommunications Reliability Advisory Council. Mr. Levine's writings on telecommunications regulation and transactions include more than 40 articles and chapters in several books. He is a frequent speaker on communications issues before such groups as the United States Senate, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information, and the Securities Industry Association, and has chaired numerous conferences on telecommunications issues. In recent years, he has served on several occasions as an expert witness on issues surrounding telecommunications contracts and their interpretation. In 1996, Network World named him one of the twenty-five most powerful people in networking, citing his "unique experience, knowledge and savvy" in "dealing with the pricing, terms and conditions that shape custom network contracts." He is listed in Chambers Global and Chambers USA, which variously describe him as "thought [by clients and peers] to be one of the most knowledgeable lawyers in the industry," and as the lawyer who “wrote the gospel on telecoms negotiation . . . he’s more than an attorney – he really knows the technology.” He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Levine received his B.A. from Yale in 1972 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976. He also holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the bars of New York and the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice before a variety of courts up to and including the United States Supreme Court. Convergence is Coming – It’s Time to Prepare Welcome to Convergence: Surviving the Next Platform Change Protecting Enterprise Customers After the Telecom Mega-Mergers Federal Excise Tax Litigation LB3 scores another win in the effort to recover Federal Excise Tax overpayments. |
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