Mr. Levy has been practicing law for more than thirty years. He received his law degree from the University of Tennessee where he was a member of the Tennessee Law Review. Mr. Levy also graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Marketing and was chosen as the most outstanding senior major in Marketing.
Primary Areas of Practice:
-Personal Injury
-Products Liability
-Civil Litigation
-Aviation Litigation
-Contested Estate and Trust Litigation
Accreditations and Awards:
-National Trial Advocacy Board Certified (Civil Trial Advocacy)
-National Trial Board of Civil Pretrial Advocacy Certified (Civil Pretrial Advocate)
-Martindale Hubbard Peer Review Rated (AV-Preeminent)
-Recognized in Mid-South Super Lawyers Magazine (Super Lawyer in Personal Injury since 2006)
-Named as Best Lawyer in Products Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs in Knoxville since 2014 by Best Lawyers in America
Selected by his peer as 2020 Lawyer of the Year in Products Liability Litigation in Knoxville, Tennessee by Best Lawyers in America
-Selected as Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America
-Has Been Recognized by Cityview Magazine as a Top Attorney in Numerous Different Categories
-Top Attorney in Personal Injury – Auto Accident – Plaintiff
-Top Attorney in Personal Injury – Plaintiff
-Top Attorney in Products Liability – Plaintiff
-Top Attorney in Wrongful Death Cases
-Top Attorney in Aviation and Admiralty
-Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates as well as the Tennessee Board of Trial Advocates
-Selected as one of the Best Attorneys in America (Plaintiff’s Products Liability since 2014)
-Fellow of American Bar Foundation and Knoxville Bar Foundation
Publications and Media Recognition:
-“Products Liability-Bystander Recovery”, Tennessee Law Review
-Mentioned “Presenting the Medical Evidence: Converting the Deposition into a Trial Brief of the Facts”
-Author: Marshall Houts J.D.
-Speaker and Chair at Tennessee Bar Association Seminar “How to win $1,000,000 by Those Who Have Done It”
Mr. Levy is married and the father of two daughters. His community activities include serving as a founding board member of the Dream Connection, Inc., an organization that helps fulfill dreams” of children who have life-threatening illnesses. Since its foundation in 1985, the Dream Connection has fulfilled the dreams of hundreds of children in East Tennessee. Mr. Levy has previously served as president and treasurer of the Dream Connection. He currently serves as co-treasurer. He also has served two terms as president of Fox Den Country Club.
He is a member of the Farragut Rotary Club and a multiple Paul Harris Fellow. For many years, Mr. Levy served as the chairman of the Rotary Foundation Committee for his local club. Mr. Levy has been a licensed pilot since 1976, and has handled several aviation litigation cases. Mr. Levy has served as a volunteer ombudsman for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR). In that role, Mr. Levy assisted Guard and Reserve members to insure that they were treated fairly by their employers when their military obligations interfered with their civil employment. In order to become an ombudsman, it is necessary for an attorney to attend classes sponsored by the National Committee for the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.
