Harlan Levy was appointed First Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York on January 1, 2011. From 2000 until his appointment, Mr. Levy was a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. Mr. Levy served as an Assistant District Attorney and homicide prosecutor in the office of New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, and as law clerk to Judge Leonard P. Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
From 2009 through 2011 he served as Chair of the Council on Criminal Justice of the New York City Bar Association. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Fund for Modern Courts.
Mr. Levy is the author of a noted book about DNA evidence in criminal cases, And the Blood Cried Out (Basic Books/ Harper Collins). He has published articles in The New York Times, The New York Law Journal and Litigation magazine.
Mr. Levy is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University School of Law.