Levenson & Associates

Louis Levenson was admitted to practice in Georgia in 1978. He has had a specialty in the last 15 years or more in general trial practice but with particular emphasis in areas of wills, trusts, fiduciary accounting, probate and estate litigation. For 10 years Mr. Levenson served the Fulton County Probate Court as the Assistant Fulton County Administrator and Assistant Fulton County Guardian having been appointed by the Probate Judge of Fulton County to this public fiduciary role.

Mr. Levenson has an active trial practice with numerous jury and non-jury trials each year. Most recently, for example, Louis Levenson co-represented a Plaintiff against Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) in a premises liability claim and, following a week long trial, achieved the largest judgment in a jury trial ever against MARTA for a premises liability/sexual assault case. Mr. Levenson currently has roles as lead counsel in large estates in Georgia and in South Carolina, some with significant assets and considerable litigation matters connected with those estates. For example, Mr. Levenson is appointed currently in a number of cases as a Conservator for incapacitated adults and also has served as the appointee of numerous Probate Courts for Decedents’ estates where the former executor or administrator has been removed or convicted of some criminal offense.

Louis Levenson also served as a Fulton County Judge. Judge Levenson has served as a part-time Magistrate in Fulton County, Georgia since 1984 as well as Pro Hac Judge of the State Court of Fulton County. He is currently and has been the sole Judge in Fulton County, Georgia responsible for hearing and trying dispossessory/landlord tenant cases (both residential and commercial) in non-jury and jury trials. He has presided over more than 100,000 non-jury dispossessory and eviction trials in Magistrate Court (approximately 1000 per month) and serves, where necessary, to preside over non jury and jury trials for Fulton State Court, plus is involved as a judge in both civil and criminal matters in this area of the law.