Ariel Levinson-Waldman

Ariel Levinson-Waldman (born November 27, 1974) is a lawyer and government official who lives and works in Washington, D.C. Since January 2011, he has served as the Senior Counsel to the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Irvin Nathan.
Education
Mr. Levinson-Waldman is a 1996 graduate of Northwestern University and a 2001 graduate of The University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of The University of Chicago Law Review.
From 2009 to January 2011, he served by appointment of Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Assistant Counsel in the Office of General Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives. In that capacity, he received a Congressional Tribute from the Chair and Ranking members of the House Committee on the Judiciary's
Task Force on Judicial Impeachment for having "provided important legal advice and representation to the
Committee and Task Force, particularly in connection with federal court
litigation that arose out of an impeachment investigation and
proceeding involving a federal judge from Louisiana." That federal judge, U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous, Jr., was impeached by the House and removed from office by the Senate in December 2010. Mr. Levinson-Waldman's responsibilities also included representing the House Judiciary Committee in the federal appellate phase of the Contempt of Congress case against former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former White House adviser Karl Rove over the 2006 U.S. attorney firings during the second George W. Bush administration, as well as representing Congressional staffers in the criminal trial of former Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.).
Since being appointed to the position in January 2011, Mr. Levinson-Waldman's responsibilities as the Senior Counsel to the Attorney General have included advising Attorney General Nathan on major civil and criminal legal issues as well as policy matters in the Office of the Attorney General, and advising the Executive Office of the Mayor for the District of Columbia on a wide range of legal issues. He has represented District government agencies in several major federal criminal investigations and has represented the District in trial and appellate courts in several cases involving the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.

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