Mark Levison founded the Levison Group in 1987. Prior to that time, he wrote columns for several publications, and the American Bar Association.

Levison oversees his law firm's St. Louis practice in Government Relations. He spent several years in Washington, D.C. as a Capitol Hill advisor and speech writer, at both the Senate and House of Representatives. Levison has worked with national politicians such as Senator Eugene McCarthy and Congressman Dick Gephardt, and for many other national, state and local politicians.

As a trial lawyer Levison has made law in several distinct areas. In the Constitutional Law area he helped invalidate a referendum petition at the Missouri Supreme Court which had been sponsored by then Governor, and later Attorney General John Ashcroft. As an antitrust lawyer, in 1984, he was on the team that won what at the time was one of largest jury verdicts in the history of the country. Levison also practices in the area of Sports & Entertainment law and has represented athletes such as Jerry Rice, Richard Perry, Michael Dean Perry and Reggie Brown.

Mark is a recognized leader of the organized bar, being one of only two lawyers in the history of the Missouri Bar to serve as President of both the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the Trial Lawyers Association of St. Louis, and to serve as a member of the Missouri Bar Board of Governors.

Levison is involved with many boards, has been the head of several charitable organizations and recently served as a member of his State Legislature's sub-committee on Competition and Privatization of government services.

You may contact Mark at levison@levisongroup.com.

"Mark Levison is the intellectual conscience of the Bar."
Frank Duda
Attorney, St. Louis, Missouri