Edward J. Levin, Member
As an experienced and respected real estate lawyer, Ed Levin has learned how to help clients meet their business goals quickly and efficiently. Ed is effective because he thoroughly understands each deal, including the specific legal requirements and each party’s issues in every transaction. He tailors his services to negotiate every matter skillfully to get to closing smoothly. Equally important, clients value his experience, skills, and sense of humor, which make each project as enjoyable as possible. Ed considers the success of his clients his greatest professional achievement.
Ed is a member of Gordon Feinblatt's Real Estate Practice. He focuses on helping clients with real estate matters involving financing, leasing, purchase and sale, workouts, foreclosure, and rendering third party opinion letters. Ed has also served as an expert witness on cases relating to real estate and professional liability matters. In addition to his work for specific client matters, Ed has been honored for successfully helping to pass legislation that restructured how recordation tax applies to indemnity deeds of trust (IDOTs) and other security instruments in the State of Maryland, as well as legislation that changed the Rule Against Perpetuities as it applies to commercial transactions in Maryland. On March 8, 2017, Ed testified before the House Economic Matters Committee on the Maryland Commercial Receivership Act, House Bill 1180.
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized Ed as a “first-rate lawyer” and “national leader” among real estate attorneys in Maryland. Ed has been instrumental in the development and writing of numerous bar and professional association reports and publications regarding third party opinion letters, and he co-authored a book on real estate leasing forms. He regularly writes and lectures on opinion letters, leasing, and financing issues. Ed has been honored by numerous legal, banking, and professional organizations for his contributions to his profession and to the community.
Honors
Recipient of the F. Patrick Hughes Legislative Award presented by NAIOP Maryland on April 24, 2014
Named 2012 Baltimore Real Estate "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers in America©
Recipient of the Maryland Daily Record’s “Leadership in Law” Award in 2007
Named "Distinguished Maryland Real Property Practitioner" for 2006-2007 by the MSBA Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning
Named as "Mortgage Associate of the Year" in 2004 by the Maryland Mortgage Bankers Association
Named to Best Lawyers in America© for Real Estate Law since 1989
Named to Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business top tier of real estate attorneys in Maryland since 2008
Named to International Who's Who of Real Estate Lawyers since 2008
Named to Maryland Super Lawyers® since 2007
Named to Maryland Super Lawyers® Top 50, 2007 and 2008
AV Preeminent™ rating in Martindale-Hubbell®
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Professional and Civic Involvement
Member, American Bar Association (ABA)
Member, ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law; Chair of Legal Opinions in Real Estate Transactions Committee (2009 to 2013)
ABA, Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Real Estate Financing Group, Group Chair, (September 2014 - August 2016)
Member, Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA)
Past Chair, MSBA Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning (1988-1990)
Member, MSBA Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning, Legislative Liaison Committee (1983 to present); Chair (1983 to 1985)
Co-Chair, Special Joint Committee on Lawyers' Opinions in Commercial Transactions of the MSBA and the Bar Association of Baltimore City (1987-1989)
Member, Special Joint Committee on Lawyers' Opinions in Business Transactions of the Section of Business Law and Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning of the MSBA (2004 to 2009); Chair (2009 to 2010)
Member, American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and chair of ACREL's Attorneys' Opinions Committee (1993 to 1999)
Member, Joint Drafting Committee of the ABA, ACREL, ACMA collaborative that prepared the Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012, 47 Real Prop. Tr. & Est. L. J. 213 (2012)
Co-editor of the Local Counsel Supplement to the Real Estate Finance Opinion Report of 2012, 51 Real Prop. Tr. & Est. L. J. 167 (2016)
Legal Counsel to the Maryland Mortgage Bankers Association, Inc. (1995 to present)
Member, Baltimore Metropolitan Area Advisory Board, Chicago Title Insurance Company (1997 to 2013)
Fellow, ABA Foundation
Life Fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation
President, Baltimore Board of Jewish Education (now known as the Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education) (1989 to 1991)
Publications and Lectures
- Co-Presenter, “Recent Cases Regarding Real Estate,” Maryland State Bar Association’s Real Property Section, Commercial Real Estate Discussion Group Lunch, May 12, 2020.
- Co-Panelist, “Drafting Real Estate Opinion Letters: It’s All about the Details,” American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education webinar, May 27, 2020.
- Maryland State Appellate Real Property Cases: May 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017, MSBA Real Property Section Commercial Real Estate Discussion Group, May 11, 2017
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Education
J.D., University of Virginia, 1976
B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1973
Bar Admissions
Maryland, 1976