David R. Levin
david.levin dbr.com
Phone:
(202) 230-5181
(202) 230-5181
Fax: (202) 842-8465

About
Experience
In addition to counseling clients on ERISA fiduciary duties and plan asset/prohibited transaction issues, David has a wealth of experience litigating pension and welfare benefit plan issues.
- Smith v. AEGON Companies Pension Plan, (6th Cir. 2014, cert. denied 2016) (enforcing plan’s forum selection clause and dismissing participant’s action for benefits)
- Penske Logistics v. Freight Drivers & Helpers Local Union No. 557 Pension Fund (multimillion-dollar award against pension fund to refund assessed withdrawal liability)
- Pinney v. AEGON Companies Pension Plan, (N.D. Iowa 2016) (granting summary judgment and dismissing putative class action for benefits)
- Corrado, et al. v. Life Investors Owners Participation Plan and Trust, et al., (D. Md.) (summary judgment granted in plan and fiduciaries’ favor in suit by beneficiaries for alleged fiduciary breaches and prohibited transaction with respect to transfer of plan assets)
- Secretary of Labor v. GreatBanc Trust Company et al., (D.S.C.) (dismissal of Secretary of Labor’s claims alleging prohibited transactions and breaches of fiduciary duties with respect to stock valuations in ESOP.)
- Register et al. v. GreatBanc Trust Company et al., (D.S.C.) (summary judgment granted in fiduciaries’ favor in suit by former plan participants alleging breaches of fiduciary duties with respect to stock valuations in ESOP)
Recognitions
Top Rated Lawyer, American Lawyer
Awards Methodology (www.drinkerbiddle.com/content/awards)Credentials
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
Education
- The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D.,
law review
- George Washington University, B.A.
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
- U.S. Tax Court
Organizations
- American Bar Association