BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:

Natalie Hiott-Levine has litigated complex commercial matters in Federal and State courts for the better part of ten years, and has also handled employment and education law matters. After graduating from NYU School of Law in 1995, Ms. Hiott-Levine began her law career at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer PA in Woodbridge, NJ—first, as a school board attorney, and later in the areas of commercial litigation and employment discrimination. In September 1997 Ms. Hiott-Levine joined the litigation department of the New York office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. During her eight years with Mayer Brown, Ms. Hiott-Levine represented clients—including accounting and consulting firms, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, engineering and construction companies, commercial and industrial property owners, hotels, banks, a health insurer, and a foreign government—in complex commercial litigations. Representative matters involved allegations of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, professional malpractice, fraud, misrepresentation, negligence, product liability, patent infringement, environmental contamination, and antitrust claims. Following the birth of her first son, Ms. Hiott-Levine returned to practice on a reduced schedule, and additionally became very active in the firm’s and other organizations’ women’s and diversity initiatives—experiences and interests that ultimately led to her next position.

After the birth of her second son, Ms. Hiott-Levine left Mayer Brown in December 2005 to become Assistant Director of the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. PAR is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to improve recruiting and retention of talented attorneys through the use of work schedules that allow attorneys to better balance the competing demands of their work and their lives outside the office. For more information about PAR’s work, please visit at www.pardc.org.

Ms. Hiott-Levine is very active in women’s and diversity initiatives in New York and New Jersey:

• New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Women in the Law (2004 - present)
• Co-Chair, Programming Subcommittee (2004-2006)
• Member, Legislative and Best Practices Subcommittees
• Chair, 2005 Annual Program: The Value of Diversity: Creating a Win-Win Environment for Women and Minority Attorneys AND Their Employers
• Co-Chair, 2007 Annual Program: Family Responsibilities: Legal Issues & Trends, Rights & Remedies.
• Executive Board, NYU School of Law Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association (2004-2006)
• Co-Chair, Membership & Outreach Committee (2004-2006)
• New York County Lawyers Association Women’s Rights Committee (2005 - present)
• Co-Chair, new programming series, Women in Law: Strategies for Success (2006-2007)
• Co-Director of Best Practices, Board of Trustees, New Jersey Women Lawyers Association (2006 - present)
• Member, Flex-Time Lawyers LLC (2002 - present)

Together with Ms. Kirsten S. Branigan, she also recently co-authored the article, Women in the Legal Profession: The Quest to Overcome Barriers to Advancement Continues, which appeared in Commerce Magazine, Summer 2006.

Ms. Hiott-Levine is married and is expecting her third child in 2007.

Telephone: (973) 565-9885
E-mail: nhiottlevine@aol.com

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