Tulane Law alumnus to receive distinguished award from American Inns of Court
Tulane Law alumnus Richard Levenstein (L’76), who each year teaches a short course on representing physicians and is on the faculty of the Intersession Boot Camp, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2024 American Inns of Court A. Sherman Christensen Award, which recognizes an Inn member who has provided distinguished, exceptional, and significant leadership to the American Inns of Court movement at the local, state, or national level.
Levenstein, a shareholder at Nason, Yeager, Gerson, Harris & Fumero PA in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, will receive the award Oct. 26 at the American Inns of Court 2024 Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States.
“Richard is an alumnus who represents the very best of Tulane Law School,” said law Dean Marcilynn Burke. “He is a nationally recognized model of professionalism and civility in the practice, and we are extremely grateful that he is willing to model these traits for our students, both in and out of the classroom."
Levenstein served as the founding president of the Justice Major B. Harding American Inn of Court in Stuart, Florida, and has served on its executive board since its inception in 2003. In 2005, he served nationally as a session moderator for an American Inns of Court conference and on its Back Inn School Program Research Task Force, a group he chaired from 2010 to 2011. He was a member of the American Inns of Court Board of Trustees from 2009 to 2017 and serves currently on the Capital Development Task Force.
“Attorney Levenstein’s service to the American Inns of Court has been and will no doubt continue to be truly remarkable,” writes Gary E. Hicks, senior associate justice (ret.) for the State of New Hampshire Supreme Court, who nominated Levenstein for the award. “Richard is a natural evangelist for the Inns of Court.”
At Tulane, Levenstein teaches a law course called Representing Physicians, which he offers in joint sessions with Tulane medical and law students. He is co-leader of the Civil Litigation Boot Camp, which offers an intense one-week training to law students in civil litigation.
At Nason Yeager, Levenstein specializes in representing physicians, medical practices, and leaders of medical staff in addition to complex commercial and civil litigation cases. In addition to his service to the American Inns of Court, Levenstein is a former president of the Martin County Bar Association, is a member of the Lawyers Committee of the National Center for State Courts, served on the board of the American Judicature Society, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel. He has also trained lawyers and judges around the country educating the public about the importance of a fair, impartial judiciary via the Our Courts America initiative.