Hankinson Levinger Co-Founder Named One of North Texas' Top Business Defense Attorneys

Online, May 20, 2010 (Newswire.com) - DALLAS - Attorney Jeffrey Levinger, a co-founder of the Dallas appellate boutique Hankinson Levinger LLP, has been named one of North Texas' top business defense attorneys. Mr. Levinger is one of 15 attorneys profiled in "The Defenders," a special section published in the May 14 edition of the Dallas Business Journal.

To compile "The Defenders" list, Dallas Business Journal editors solicited nominations from across Dallas/Fort Worth in search of attorneys whose reputations and track records put them among the area's top defense attorneys for corporate clients.

Mr. Levinger provides clients with more than 25 years of appellate and trial experience. The former head of the appellate practice group at Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P., Mr. Levinger currently serves as Chairman of the State Bar of Texas Committee on Pattern Jury Charges (Malpractice, Premises, and Products) and is an officer of the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section. He has been recognized among Texas' top lawyers each year since the Texas Super Lawyers list first was published in 2003, and he also has repeatedly been named to lists of the Top 100 attorneys in both the Dallas-Fort Worth area and throughout the state of Texas.

In his Q&A with the DBJ, Mr. Levinger said he decided to become a lawyer after he interned with the South Dakota Legislature and saw that the best legislators all were lawyers.

"Law struck me as a profession that would open doors and sharpen my analytical thinking, and I could not have been more correct," he says. "Every year I try to write stronger briefs, to present more persuasive oral arguments, and to provide better professional advice than the year before. And I'm constantly striving to build practice areas that interest me and in which I can make a difference."

Hankinson Levinger, the preeminent civil appellate firm in the Southwest, provides clients with innovative legal insights and judicial perspective in all phases of litigation. The firm's attorneys work with trial teams to develop strategies designed to put a case in the best position before, during, and after trial. Hankinson Levinger represents national clients, regional companies, governmental bodies, and individuals with trial and appellate matters, and offers mediation and arbitration services as well.

Learn more about the firm at http://www.hanklev.com.