STEPHEN M. LEVINE JOINS THE JUDGE LAW FIRM AS OF COUNSEL

The Judge Law Firm is pleased to announce that Stephen M. Levine has joined the firm as Of Counsel.   Mr. Levine regularly acts as general and litigation counsel to community associations, working closely with boards of directors and community association management companies.  He provides advice with respect to all aspects of community associations, including preparation of new governing documents, enforcement and interpretation of governing documents, relevant State and Federal laws, injunction issues, nuisance actions, governmental agency issues, challenges, requirements, compliance matters  and the entire spectrum of association disputes.  Mr. Levine has experience with complex trials, arbitrations, and mediations in both State and Federal courts. He also practices real estate law and provides corporate and legal advice to non-association clients. Mr. Levine is a magician member of the Academy of Magical Arts located at the World Famous Hollywood Magic Castle.  He is the Legal Advisor to the International Brotherhood of Magicians and volunteers his time as a magician to community events that benefit children and other causes.  He also was President of two 501(c)(3) corporations that benefitted local communities and magicians and people in need.

Mr. Levine was named a Superlawyer in Southern California in 2013 through 2016, and 2020 through 2022.  He has received awards from the American Bar Association and the Beverly Hills Bar Association.  He was President of the California Young Lawyers Association, and served on the State Bar Board of Governors, The Board of Trustees for the Lawyers Club of San Francisco and the Board of Trustees for the San Fernando Valley Bar Association.  Mr. Levine is a member of the Orange County and Greater Los Angeles Chapters of the Community Association Institute.   

"The opportunity to work with James Judge and The Judge Law Firm’s talented and versatile legal team, provides a perfect opportunity for me to serve my clients’ needs and to assist The Judge Firm in servicing their five hundred plus Southern California Association clients," said Mr. Levine.

Mr. Levine comes to The Judge Law Firm from Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP,  where he was a partner for seventeen years.  He earned his Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law in 1988 where he was awarded the Vanderbilt Medal of Honor and the Chancellor’s Service Award and his B.A. in Political Science from The Johns Hopkins University in 1985.

ABOUT THE JUDGE LAW FIRM  

The Judge Law Firm was founded in 1992 and is a recognized leader in the Community Association legal field specializing in common interest development law, general and litigation counsel to community associations, judicial/non-judicial foreclosures, judicial collections, debt purchases, evictions, and commercial real estate law.  The firm currently represents over 500 Southern California community associations. James Judge, the firm’s founder, is a member of the Orange County chapter of the Community Association Institute (CAI) and the California Association of Community Managers (CACM) Teaching Faculty.  Mr. Judge also served on the Legal Steering Committee, the Professional Standards Committee and the Legislative Committee for CACM, was a speaker at many of their annual law seminars, and has written for and edited the CACM Law Journal.  Currently, Mr. Judge’s “specialty” with CACM is ethics.  He is the chair of the Ethics Study Group Review Committee, which supplies materials for all three ethics offerings:  Foundational, Advanced, and Mastery.

For more information please contact The Judge Law Firm at (949) 833-8633 or e-mail  info@thejudgefirm.com