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PAUL LEVIN

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 97  |  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 03

Paul is based out of our LA office.

Paul understands lenders. He understands how they work, how they are (often) defrauded and how to recover money they’ve lost. He understands the relationships and duties between banks and their customers, their investors, their officers and their directors. Although we haven’t counted, it is no exaggeration to say that Paul has litigated hundreds of cases focused on the investigation and the nationwide pursuit of claims to recover funds on behalf of financial institutions. In his 20+ years of experience, Paul and his team have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on their behalf. His broad litigation experience includes numerous suits against title insurers, closing agents, appraisers, developers and loan originators for misrepresentations arising from the origination or servicing of residential mortgage loans. Paul was trial counsel in a 2013 seminal closing protection letter (commonly known as a CPL) trial establishing broad contractual liability for title insurers in connection with dishonesty or closing instruction breaches by title agents conducting closings for victim lenders.

Paul’s excellence in this space is in large part due to his first-hand experience working at IndyMac Bank where he was Co-Director of the Fraud Recovery and Loss Mitigation unit and Senior Litigation Counsel. Paul managed the day-to-day repurchase and mortgage fraud litigation across the country and provided legal support to various mortgage banking operations. Immediately before joining MM&H, Paul was a founding partner at the Mortgage Law Recovery Group law firm in Los Angeles, and prior to his work at IndyMac Bank, Paul was a litigation associate with AmLaw 100 firm Bryan Cave LLP.

Paul currently lives in Los Angeles where he has spent more than 25 years purging what is left of his New Jersey accent.

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