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Stan Levin (808) 450-3004 x309 SLevin@DavisLevin.com

Stan E. Levin

Stanley Levin, one of the founding partners of the firm, has retired from active practice and in 2009 and founded, with the firm’s support, LEAP (www.leaphawaii.com), The Levin Educational Access Project, a public interest law firm committed to providing education and advocacy to children and families with disabilities.

Mr. Levin had an extensive career in public interest litigation. While in law school in New York City, he worked for two years at Columbia University's Center For Social Welfare Policy and the Law. After law school, like so many of the country's best law graduates in the early 1970s, Mr. Levin joined the ranks of public interest litigators at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii. Mr. Levin eventually became Director of Litigation supervising a team of 30 attorneys in their assault on procedural and constitutional abuses suffered by the poor, disabled, and disadvantaged. Mr. Levin gained a national reputation as a welfare rights, class action lawyer. He has handled and consulted on over 60 class actions all over the country and has been counsel on numerous historic, landmark decisions. Mr. Levin argued and won before the United States Supreme Court, Yamasaki v. Califano, a nationwide class action which articulated certain due process standards required to be shown social security recipients.

He is the recipient of the American Bar Associations John Minor Wisdom Award for public interest advocacy. Stan Levin has been awarded the American Bar Association Section of Litigation John Minor Wisdom Public Service Award for his pro bono efforts, particularly on behalf of special needs children and the disabled.

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