DC OAG Official Receives National Award as Young Public Lawyer of the Year

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ariel Levinson-Waldman, the Senior Counsel to D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan, has won the Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. Young Public Lawyer of the Year Award from the International Municipal Lawyers Association (IMLA), Attorney General Nathan proudly announced today.  The award was presented this past weekend in Baltimore at the IMLA annual convention.  It is given annually to one lawyer in the country under the age of forty “to recognize a public law practitioner who has provided outstanding service to the public and who possesses an exemplary reputation in the legal community, [and] the highest of ethical standards.”

Levinson-Waldman, 39, has served in the D.C. Attorney General’s office since January 2011.  Prior to that, he served with Nathan under Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the U.S. House of Representatives Office of General Counsel, where he received a bi-partisan Distinguished Service Tribute for work that led to the impeachment and removal from office of a corrupt federal judge.   He was previously in private practice with WilmerHale and at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.   Attorney General Nathan, along with several clients in the District government, nominated Levinson-Waldman for the award.  Nathan noted that he has played a Chief of Staff role in the 300-plus lawyer Attorney General’s office, dealing with “the most challenging civil and criminal litigation matters that we confront as well as legal advice and policy issues,” and has been “consistently outstanding, focusing with me on our goal of protecting the District’s interests with the highest ethics and strongest advocacy and continuing to make this a first-class law firm serving the city.”

Levinson-Waldman said: “I am grateful to IMLA for this recognition and to Attorney General Nathan and our talented colleagues in the Office of the Attorney General for their support.”