Rachel D. Lev joined James & Hoffman as an Associate in February 2009.   She has represented individual and institutional clients on a variety of labor and employment, civil and commercial litigation (including a federal jury trial), contracts, licensing, corporate, constitutional law, and admiralty and maritime matters.

Ms. Lev has represented labor unions and employees in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, arbitrations, federal court proceedings, individual discrimination and employment matters, and before the World Bank Administrative Tribunal.  She has advocated on behalf of nurses, airline pilots, service and environmental workers, and staff members at multinational organizations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.  And she has been a contributing editor to the ABA’s treatise on the Railway Labor Act. Prior to joining James and Hoffman, Ms. Lev was an associate attorney at a law firm in southern California. While in law school, she worked for a Georgia Superior Court judge, law firms in Georgia and California, and a number of in-house legal departments.

Ms. Lev holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, a J.D. from Emory University School of Law, and an M.B.A. from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.  She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.  She is a member of the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar.  And she is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

rdlev@jamhoff.com