Marsha Levick

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Marsha Levick is a lawyer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She is a co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of the Juvenile Law Center [1] and recognized as a leading expert in juvenile justice. [2] [3] [4]

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Career

Marsha Levick finished the Friends Select School, Pennsylvania [3] and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Law School. [1]

She and three other Temple University Law graduates founded the Juvenile Law Center in 1975. [3] [5]

She had led the Juvenile Law Center litigation before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court related Kids for cash scandal in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. [2] [1]

She co-authored child advocates' amicus briefs for a number of cases before the Supreme Court: Roper v. Simmons , Graham v. Florida , J. D. B. v. North Carolina , and Miller v. Alabama and served as a co-counsel in Montgomery v. Louisiana . [1]

She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple University Beasley School of Law. [6]

Personal

Her father was an oncologist and her mother was a psychologist who founded the first graduate-level art therapy program in the country at Hahnemann University Hospital. [3]

Levick is married to Tom Innis, a Philadelphia public defender. [3] She has two daughters from a previous marriage.

Notable cases

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 MARSHA LEVICK, ESQ.
  2. 1 2 3 "Marsha Levick", The Philadelphia Award
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Samantha Melamed, "How Marsha Levick changed the face of juvenile justice", Philadelphia Inquirer , January 27, 2016
  4. ↑ "Marsha Levick: Demand a Seat at the Table"
  5. ↑ Robert Schwartz, " Gault ripple effect: the founding of Juvenile Law Center", in: Rights, Race, and Reform. 50 Years of Child Advocacy in the Juvenile Justice System, 2018, ISBN   1351602543 — describes the history of the Juvenile Law Center
  6. ↑ Marsha Levick Adjunct Professor of Law
  7. ↑ Lorna Graham, Presumption of Guilt. How the Kids for Cash Scandal Trampled Justice, ISBN   194818141X
  8. ↑ Randall G. Shelden, Emily I. Troshynski, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society, 2019, ISBN   1478639865
  9. 1 2 "Marsha Levick, Co-Founder of the Juvenile Law Center, to Receive Prestigious Andrew Hamilton Award from the Public Interest Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association at Annual Awards Ceremony and Reception, Dec. 2"

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