Rebecca Levin Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

- Advises clients on all steps of applying for and obtaining pre-birth and post-birth parentage orders.- Handles adoptions including confirmatory, kinship, stepparent and private (or independent adoption) for both adopting families and birth parents.- Drafts and reviews agreements involving surrogates, gestational carriers, and egg, embryo and sperm donations.- Counsels on creation, implementation and revision of co-parenting agreements.

Child Support & Custody, Divorce, Termination of Domestic Partnership, Civil Union Dissolution, and Domestic Violence & Protection From Abuse

• Make recommendations to judge regarding disposition of motions and assist with motion hearings • Communicate with attorneys and pro se litigants regarding motions • Perform legal research• Mediate small claims, custody and parenting cases

• Performed research and fact investigation and handled settlement negotiations• Conducted all aspects of contested civil protection order trials in the D.C. Superior Court • Collaboratively worked with clients to change their immigration status under the Violence Against Women Act

• Collected, analyzed and briefed materials for book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law• Researched national and international trends in providing benefits to nontraditional family structures

• Drafted policy and legal memoranda and assisted in writing legal briefs • Researched, drafted and updated publications and the Project’s annual report • Participated in determining the strategic direction of the Project’s impact litigation, public policy, and educational work

• Drafted legislative language and talking points in support of municipal, state and federal legislation • Researched and analyzed legislation at state and local levels• Drafted responses to constituent letters

• Assisted clients by researching and answering questions from the clinic’s legal hotline • Performed substantive research for pending cases in the areas of AIDS law and public benefits

• As a legal clinic advocate, provided initial response to legal clinic calls • Performed legal research and drafted legal documents such as name change petitions • Lobbied against and helped defeat the “Marriage Protection Amendment” in the Pennsylvania legislature• Designed and executed a project investigating police relations with the LGBT community in Philadelphia

J.D.

Activities and Societies: - President, American University Lambda Law Society - Founder, DC LGBT Law Students’ Consortium - Treasuer.

Mpa, Public Administration

Activities and Societies: Chair, Brown v. Board of Education Jubilee Committee• 2004 Recipient of the Masters Prize for Public.

B.S., Health Policy And Administration

Activities and Societies: Chair, Martin Luther King Day of Service Executive Board, Penn State Undergraduate Student Government• Graduated.

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