Norman Levine is a member of Greenberg Glusker's Litigation Department and handles complex commercial disputes in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels.

Norm has represented parties engaged in virtually every aspect of the real estate industry, handling disputes between joint owners of property, buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants, adjacent landowners, borrowers and lenders, clients and brokers, and developers and investors. He has also litigated significant intellectual property issues of first impression, resulting in favorable appellate decisions. Norm has also defended employers in wrongful termination and discrimination matters. He has also represented parties in shareholder and partnership disputes and in disputes between management and investors.

He has served on the Firm’s Management Committee since 1991, and was Firm's Managing Partner from 1998 until 2011.

Read Norm's interview by Smart Business Magazine on how to choose the right law firm for your business.

Charitable & Civic Involvement

  • Past President, Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue, Encino, California
  • Director, Valley Beth Shalom Foundation
  • Chair, Advisory Board, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University

Awards

  • Listed, Best Lawyers in America, Litigation- Real Estate, 2007-2019
  • Listed, Southern California Super Lawyers, 2004-2006, 2009-2019
  • Rated, "AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5," Martindale Hubbell

Bar Admissions

  • California

Court Admissions

  • United States District Court for the Central, Northern, and Southern Districts of California

Education

  • Stanford University School of Law  (J.D., 1974)
  • University of Pennsylvania  (M.A., 1971)
  • University of Pennsylvania  (B.A., 1971)

Litigation Experience

  • Represented investors in many partnership and corporation dissolution and governance disputes
  • Successfully represented an investor in an action enforcing a tax-protection agreement arising out of one of the largest leveraged buyouts in U.S. history
  • Represents management in actions by investors in a pooled investment in European mortgages
  • Defeated class certification in a mislabeling matter that reached the California Supreme Court
  • Handled partition action involving one of the largest undeveloped parcels of real property in Santa Clara County
  • Represented significant reported property owner in inverse condemnation action against Department of Transportation involving earth movement alongside freeway
  • Achieved significant appellate decision protecting detailer's source of goods as trade secrets