Our Attorneys

Michael Levin
Michael Levin has focused the last 24 years of his career helping companies manage and mitigate compliance and ethics risks and build ethical cultures, both as an internal executive and as an external consultant. He served more than ten years as Chief Ethics Officer and VP of Compliance at Freddie Mac, where he led a team of compliance and ethics professionals and corporate investigators, and set the strategy to manage and mitigate Ethics, Culture and Conduct risk across the enterprise. This included the Compliance Helpline; the Code of Conduct and related policies; conflicts of interest disclosure and mitigation; employee trading controls and surveillance; corporate investigations; enterprise risk and compliance training; and risk assessment, oversight and remediation. Levin also chartered and led Freddie Mac’s Conduct Risk Committee.
Mr. Levin began his in-house compliance and ethics career in the aerospace/defense industry, serving as Director of Ethics and Business Conduct at BAE Systems, Inc., and then The Boeing Company, where he led an international team of compliance and ethics professionals managing complex issues in LATAM, EMEA, and APAC, and translating Boeing’s ethical expectations culturally in those regions. Levin spent nearly 10 years at Integrity Interactive Corporation, a market-leading compliance and ethics service provider (later acquired by SAI Global), where he provided advisory services to a broad spectrum of companies and industries ranging from Code of Conduct development, risk assessment, third party risk assessment, and development of compliance and ethics training and awareness campaigns. Mr. Levin began his career practicing law in Boston.
He received his B.A. from the University of Maryland and his J.D. from the Massachusetts School of Law where he served as Managing Editor of the MSL Law Review. He has served on the Board of the Capital Area Business Ethics Network and has lectured extensively at industry and legal association conferences including the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, the Practising Law Institute, Association of Corporate Counsel and the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association. Mr. Levin is the author of Selling Compliance, a resource guide in the book Creating Great Compliance Training in a Digital World, published in 2019. In addition, he has been published or quoted in The Ethics Experts (video podcast), Forbes Insights, Compliance and Ethics Professional, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, The Anti-Corruption Report, Business Week (online), The Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, and Inside Supply Management magazines.
Mr. Levin is a member of the Massachusetts bar and resides in Bethesda, Maryland.

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