Joshua Levy

About Joshua Levy

Mr. Levy’s specialized services and guidance have proven invaluable for clients caught in the middle of parallel proceedings by administrative, criminal, congressional and civil entities. He has created strategic defenses for high-profile, high-stakes matters by managing legal, professional, political and reputational threats to achieve successful outcomes. 

Mr. Levy has built upon his service to two U.S. Senators and over a decade of experience in high profile criminal investigations & complex commercial civil litigation to help successfully manage clients' legal crises, conflicts & costs. As a Trial Lawyer, Mr. Levy has represented dozens of companies & individuals in congressional, criminal & other governmental investigations. His clients are found in the Health Care, Energy, Defense, Commercial Real Estate & various sectors of the economy.

On behalf of the Government of Rwanda, Mr. Levy co-leads an investigation of matters related to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

On behalf of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Mr. Levy co-led an investigation into the conduct of certain agents arising out of the Biogenesis scandal.

When clients fall under investigation, Mr. Levy is also there.  In Congressional investigations, he has assisted notable companies, corporate executives and government officials in crises coming out of Afghanistan, Fast & Furious, Solyndra, Benghazi and many other complicated matters to successful results. Mr. Levy has also represented companies and individuals in Justice Department investigations and prosecutions.  For example:

He co-represented Paula Broadwell, biographer to General David Petraeus, in Justice Department criminal investigations that resulted in no charges for her.

He represented a city official, in the Justice Department criminal investigation of New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio that resulted in no charges.

He has represented several hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device company executives in Justice Department criminal investigations resulting in no charges for those clients.

A specialist in health care fraud law, Mr. Levy has been involved in matters relating to pharmaceutical and medical device claims, hospital over-billing claims, Anti-Kickback Statute violations and Stark Law abuses.  Mr. Levy’s experience with healthcare fraud matters has included complex negotiations with U.S. Attorneys Offices, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, and state agencies, and as well as the FDA and foreign regulatory agencies.  For example, he worked with a team of attorneys on behalf of Dinesh Thakur, in his landmark False Claims Act case against Ranbaxy, producing the largest drug safety settlement against a generic drug company, in U.S. history.

In court, Mr. Levy successfully moved to quash subpoenas served by a Canadian mining consortium on its political rivals, who fought for the protection of the Bristol Bay, Alaska watershed (home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon fishery) and against the “Pebble Mine” that would destroy it.  See, e.g., Pebble Limited Partnership v. EPA, 310 F.R.D. 575 (D.Alaska  2015).

Mr. Levy has expertise in the False Claims Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act.  He has conducted dozens of internal investigations, created compliance programs, trained employees and helped perform due diligence with regard to a company’s potential exposure under these statutes.

Mr. Levy teaches “Congressional Investigations” and “Healthcare Fraud and Abuse” at Georgetown Law.  He served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, where he investigated the government’s conduct in Hurricane Katrina and the state of U.S. transit security.  He also served as counsel to U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York and as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Joan A. Lenard, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Outside of government, Mr. Levy practiced for over a decade in the litigation and white collar defense groups at Arnold & Porter LLP and Stein, Mitchell, Muse & Cipollone LLP.

He was named a Super Lawyer for White Collar in Washington, DC, 2013-2017.

For nearly two decades, Mr. Levy has practiced innovative law in complex matters to the satisfaction of his clients. His clients come from high levels of government, Fortune 500 companies and global entities facing US inquiries.

Mr. Levy has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center sine 2007 & also a member of both the New York & District of Columbia Bar.  He was on the Steering Committee of the D.C Bar Litigation Section from 2009-2012 & on the ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security from 2001-2005.