Richard M. Levy practices in the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group.  He handles all aspects of commercial and real-property litigation, including business disputes, commercial collections, bankruptcy, foreclosures, and landlord/tenant disputes.  Rich regularly represents clients before the trial courts in Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as in the United States District Court and United States Bankruptcy Court, and he has argued multiple appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Rich also advises clients on land-use and zoning issues and represents them before municipal land-use agencies and in appeals of agency decisions.

Rich received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Connecticut in 1986 and was a 1991 honors graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law.  While in law school, he served as Executive Editor of the Connecticut Law Review.  Upon graduation, Rich worked in the litigation departments of both Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin and Bingham, Dana & Gould in Hartford before relocating with his wife to rural Maine, where he operated his own general practice.  He joined the Firm in 1998.

Rich has served as an elected member of the Cheshire Planning & Zoning Commission and as a member of the Cheshire Water Pollution Control Authority.  Rich has also served as a Moot Court instructor at the University of Connecticut School of Law.