PRACTICE AREAS
Business and Commercial Disputes; Real Estate: Sales, Leases and Financing; Eminent Domain; Intellectual Property; Employment Disputes, including Earnings and Stock Options; and Discovery.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION EXPERIENCE
Commissioner Arnold Levin served on the Los Angeles Superior Court for 26 years, from 1972 to 1982 and from 1986 until his retirement in 2002. His areas of service on the bench included Family Law Court, Law & Motion, Writs and Receivers, Attachments and Writs of Posses-sion, Post Judgment Proceedings, Non-Jury Civil Trials, Rents and Profits Receiverships, and Eminent Domain.
Commissioner Levin also ruled on thousands of discovery motions while in the Law & Motion Department.
Commissioner Levin began his legal career as law clerk to U.S. District Judges William Mathes and Ernest Tolin in the Central District of California. He was in private practice from 1961-72 and 1982-1986, where he focused on business litigation and family law.
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ORGANIZATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS
 Consultant to BAJI and CALJIC Committees; compiler and editor of 5th edition of CALJIC and CALJIC’s report to the California Assembly on reasonable doubt
Instructor on course on Judicial Remedies, University of West Los Angeles (1975-78)
Member of Joint Bench & Bar Committee on Discovery; drafted proposed legislation and local rules that were adopted (1975-80)
Member of Joint Bench & Bar Committee on Trial Delay Reduction; drafted court rules for master calendar (1989-91)
Current member of Executive Committee of Pre- and Post-Judgment Remedies Section of the Los Angeles Co. Bar Litigation division
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EDUCATION & TRAINING
J.D., 1959, Harvard Law School
A.B., 1952, UCLA
Commissioner Levin is available throughout Southern California.
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