Jennie Levin

Jennie Levin Defended Pharmaceutical Giants—Then One Sentence Changed Whom She Chose to Fight For

At her UC Berkeley Law graduation, Jennie Levin heard a challenge that followed her into the first years of her career. Her dean reminded the graduates that a legal education gave them power and urged them to use it “to do good and do well.” Levin soon joined Kaye Scholer, where she participated in sophisticated litigation for pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer and AstraZeneca, as well as corporate matters involving Broadcom. The work placed her inside the kind of legal operation built to defend large companies from substantial claims. Yet the sentence from graduation stayed with her.

Levin already knew something about remaking a life. Raised in Uzbekistan, she immigrated with her family to Israel at 13. At 26, she came to the United States alone with only a few hundred dollars, an honors degree in linguistics, and plans that many people in her life considered unrealistic. She finished her first year of law school at the top of her class and earned a scholarship. What began as a decision to leave graduate studies in linguistics became a legal career shaped by an increasingly clear question: Who did she want her work to protect?

In 2010, Levin answered it by establishing the Law Offices of Jennie Levin, P.C. and choosing to represent injured people. Her corporate-defense years did not become a chapter to forget. They became an advantage. She had watched major companies organize evidence, evaluate exposure, challenge causation, and defend expensive litigation. Now she could recognize those strategies when an insurance company or corporate defendant used them against one injured person.

That perspective was tested in Garcia v. Hernandez. Levin and her co-counsel represented a married couple whose vehicle was struck from behind by a commercial box truck while they were stopped at a red light. The defense disputed the extent of their injuries, questioned whether the medical treatment was necessary, and argued that their physical problems existed before the collision. After a $300,000 settlement offer, the case went before a jury. The verdict was approximately $823,046—more than half a million dollars above the offer—and was later recognized among the 100 largest truck-accident verdicts in the country for 2018.

Her broader record includes a $3.5 million auto–truck result, a $1.25 million brain-injury result, and a $1.15 million settlement for a passenger who suffered serious injuries in a collision involving a tour bus. But Levin’s practice is distinguished by more than numbers. She created a written firm constitution centered on how clients should be treated and incorporated a registered nurse into the practice to assist with medical-care concerns. She also wrote Crash to Cash, a practical guide intended to help people understand and manage smaller accident claims even when they proceed without an attorney.

The public response has been extraordinary. Levin speaks English, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian—an impressive ability that reflects her academic background in linguistics and helps her serve the many communities that make up Los Angeles. Her office maintains a perfect 5.0-star Google rating across 652 reviews. For a lawyer working with people during painful and uncertain periods, that volume of positive feedback suggests that clients remember more than the size of a settlement. They remember how the firm treated them while their health, income, and future were unsettled.

The sentence Levin carried from Berkeley ultimately became the dividing line in her career. She learned how powerful defendants protect themselves, then chose to place that knowledge behind injured people confronting those same resources. For a prospective client, that means hiring an attorney who understands both the strength of the opposition and the human reason the fight matters.

That combination of experience, reputation, verified professional standing, and public credibility is why Jennie Levin was included on FreddieFender.com.