Mark Leventhal Email & Phone Number

I successfully passed OPM's Administrative Law Judge Exam, and earned a position on OPM's register of Administrative Law Judges. This achievement illustrates my excellent legal research, analytical, and writing skills, as well as my fantastic oral communication skills. Unfortunately, after making OPM's register of Administrative Law Judges, the law changed. Administrative Law Judges were removed from the Competitive Service, and OPM's register of Administrative Law Judges was terminated.My career as an attorney spans both private practice and government, during which time I have handled numerous litigation matters, dealt with a wide array of complex statutory and regulatory issues, and written many excellent legal briefs.I led a workgroup that provided training on complex legal issues to over 400 attendees, and received Executive Director's Honor Award for my performance in designing and delivering this training.

Washington, Dc

PREVIOUSLY WORKED AT BODE & GRENIER, LLP FROM OCTOBER 1997 to MARCH 1999PRACTICED COMPLEX COMMERCIAL LITIGATION, and represented parties in cases filed in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Worked on all aspects of the firm’s cases, from case evaluation and filing of the complaint to final disposition.CONDUCTED THOROUGH LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING in massive, multi-million dollar cases involving highly complex and cutting-edge constitutional, statutory, administrative and contractual legal matters – OFTEN INVOLVING CASES INVOLVING NOVEL LEGAL ISSUES IN WHICH THERE WAS NO CLEARLY APPLICABLE LEGAL PRECEDENT.DEVELOPED LEGAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES for researching complex legal issues on Lexis and on WestLaw. Often would utilize secondary sources, such as law review articles, to help focus legal research, and find the most compelling, on-point cases to achieve fantastic results for clients.Representative Accomplishments:—WROTE PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC in a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit concerning whether Ohio garnishment laws were preempted by the National Bank Act. —DEVELOPED OUTSTANDING LEGAL RESEARCH SKILLS. Legal research skills were thought to be the best in Washington DC. Often pulled into other attorneys’ complex cases on an ad hoc basis to research the most challenge legal issues. Regarding my dynamite legal research skills, colleagues always said, “If it is out there, Mark will find it!”—DEVELOPED RESEARCH STRATEGIES FOR RESEARCHING LEGAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN A “TAX” AND A “FEE.” Supported a $46M internet domain name case in which fundamental issue was whether the $100 charge Network Solutions charged to register internet domain names was a “fee” or a “tax”. Spent months on Lexis and WestLaw researching legal distinction. As a result, U.S. District Judge ruled the $100 charge was a “tax” and not a “fee,” and therefore, illegally and unconstitutional.

Founder and President of Leventhal Consulting - The First in the Nation Executive Weight Loss Consulting Service For Attorneys By An AttorneyBased on my own experience of losing over 50 pounds on Weight Watchers, I founded and started the First in the Nation Executive Weight Loss Consulting Service For Attorneys By An Attorney.I helped scores of fellow attorneys lose weight, and live a healthier lifestyle. I was featured on WUSA-TV (Channel 9 in Washington, DC) 9 News Now. I was featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post; The ABA Journal; and The Washington Lawyer.I traveled the United States giving speeches at various Bar Associations, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Bar Association; the Tulsa County (OK) Bar Association; the Lorain County (OH) Bar Association; and the Frederick (MD) Bar Association. For example, I was a featured speaker at the Tulsa County (OK) Bar Association 18th Annual Member CLE, and spoke on "Having A Healthier Lifestyle" and "The Importance To Your Health Of Losing Weight/Being At A Healthy Weight."I was a Brand Ambassador for this company, as I went to annual Bar Association Annual Meetings throughout the United States, and, as a vendor at such Annual Meetings, sold memberships for this company. I was a vendor at the California Bar Association Annual Meeting, the Texas Bar Association Annual Meeting, the Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting, the West Virginia Bar Association Annual Meeting, the Ohio Bar Association Annual Meeting, the New Jersey Bar Association Annual Meeting, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Annual Meeting. I graduated from iPEC Coaching, and I am a Certified Professional Coach.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

PRACTICED INTERNATIONAL TRADE LITIGATION, and represented parties in antidumping, countervailing duty, and Section 337 cases filed with U.S. International Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Commerce. Worked on multi-million dollar cases involving cutting-edge and challenging legal and factual issues. Conducted substantial legal research and developed legal research strategies; wrote scores complex and detailed legal analyses, memoranda, pleadings, motions, and correspondence. Made frequent oral presentations to law firm partners on research findings, enabling firm to achieve successful results for clients. Representative Accomplishments:—AS A NAFTA CHAPTER 19 BINATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT PANEL ASSISTANT, RESEARCHED LEGAL ISSUES, AND ORALLY COMMUNICATED RESEARCH FINDINGS TO NAFTA PANELISTS in multi-billion dollar softwood lumber dispute between U.S. and Canada. Participated in the hearing, and in post-hearing deliberations in Calgary and Montreal. Conducted months of extensive legal research, was able to SUCCESSFULLY MEDIATE a consensus among NAFTA Panelists, and was selected to write the opinion of the NAFTA Panel. WROTE OPINION OF THE NAFTA PANEL. —BEAT OUT 100+ U.S. LAWYERS and acquired own client—Ningxia Huahui Activated Carbon Co., Ltd. (“Huahui”)—in a multi-million dollar antidumping investigation before the USDOC involving imports of activated carbon. Worked with lawyers in China to gather facts and evidence to show client was independent from Chinese government. Went to Yinchuan, China, and prepared Huahui for an audit by the USDOC. As a result of success of this audit, Huahui’s merchandise was subject to lower import duties.—MADE ORAL PRESENTATIONS TO LARGE GROUPS on U.S. antidumping laws in Shanghai, Zhongshan, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, China. —MADE ORAL PRESENTATION on U.S. antidumping laws to business executives at Chery auto in Wuhu, China. At the time, Chery was considering importing their cars into U.S.

Washington, D.C.

Practiced International Trade Litigation. Went with two partners to Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, LLP in July 2001.

See above description for my work at Bode & Grenier, LLP. Returned to working at Bode & Grenier, LLP, after a 10 year absence, in January 2009.

Wilmington, Delaware

Wrote bench memoranda and decisions in cases involving banking issues as well as the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.

Washington, Dc

Administered Federal GrantsReceived Outstanding Performance Awards in both FY 1992 and FY 1993Awarded Cash In A Flash Award for outstanding performance in May 1994.

J.D., Law

Member, Temple Law Review; Graduated Magna Cum Laude

B.S. In Economics, Concentration In Entrepreneurial Management

Graduated Cum Laude