ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Richard Levenstein 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 in October at the American Inns of Court 2024 Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States.
“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.”
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.
At Nason Yeager, Levenstein specializes in representing physicians, medical practices, and leaders of medical staff in addition to complex commercial and civil litigation cases. He has been a board-certified business litigation lawyer since 2002. He also serves as an adjunct professor of healthcare law at Tulane University Law School and as a lecturer at Tulane University Medical School.
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 with respect to educating the public about the importance of a fair, impartial judiciary via the Our Courts America initiative.
Levenstein earned his undergraduate degree from Tulane University in 1974 and his law degree from Tulane’s law school in 1976.
The American Inns of Court, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, inspires the legal community to advance the rule of law by achieving the highest level of professionalism through example, education, and mentoring. The organization’s membership includes nearly 30,000 federal, state, and local judges; lawyers; law professors; and law students in more than 360 chapters nationwide. More information is available at www.innsofcourt.org.
