New York State Bar Association Selects Nationally Recognized Legal Ethicist for the Sanford D. Levy Award
3.13.2025
University of Connecticut School of Law Professor Leslie Levin will receive the New York State Bar Association’s Sanford D. Levy Professional Ethics Award for her lifetime of work in legal ethics, media law and evidence.
Levin, who has taught at the law school since 1994, will be honored at a hybrid meeting of the association’s Committee on Professional Ethics, which selected her for the award, on Wednesday, March 19, at Cleary Gottlieb in New York City.
“Leslie Levin has long been a trusted expert on one of the most critical subjects of our profession. She is among the nation’s top authorities on legal ethics in addition to being an outstanding role model, author and educator. She is an inspiration to her students and colleagues,” said Domenick Napoletano, president of the New York State Bar Association.
Levin also taught at New York University School of Law and the University of Haifa, as a Fulbright specialist, and was a visiting research fellow at the University of Queensland.
“Leslie Levin is highly regarded as a distinguished ethics scholar and educator in the fields of professional responsibility and lawyer regulation. Her considerable contributions to these areas have had a significant impact, and it is a privilege to honor her achievements with the Sanford D. Levy Award,” said Brenda Dorsett of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the chair of the Committee on Professional Ethics.
Levin served as the first director of the UConn School of Law Lawyering Process Program and as the first faculty pro bono coordinator. In addition, she co-authored a report and recommendations about access to justice for self-represented litigants at the request of the Connecticut Judicial Branch Access to Justice Commission.
The award is named for Sanford D. Levy, a former member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics. It has been presented since 1982 to an individual or institution that has contributed the most to the understanding and advancement in the field of professional ethics.
