David Levy is a prominent postal regulatory and appellate lawyer in Venable's Washington office.

A recognized leader in the postal bar, Mr. Levy works with mailers -- from Fortune 100 companies to small nonprofit organizations -- to help them minimize their cost of postage and mailing and navigate the complex postal rate and eligibility rules.

He has served as first-chair counsel for mailers in every major postal rate case before the Postal Regulatory Commission since 1983. He also has represented mailers in USPS revenue deficiency proceedings and appeals and False Claims Act investigations involving rates, classifications, mailability, and organizational eligibility.

Mr. Levy also has substantial experience in telecom, railroad and petroleum pipeline regulation.

Over the past 25 years, Mr. Levy has represented many of the nation's largest mailers and their trade associations, including the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, the Magazine Publishers of America, and the National Association of Presort Mailers. He has also counseled many individual mailers - including credit card issuers, magazine publishers, catalog mailers and nonprofit organizations.

Significant Matters

Mr. Levy negotiated and won regulatory approval for three of the five largest rate contracts struck by the Postal Service with individual mailers. He has testified before Congress and drafted amendments to the postal laws that preserved nonprofit rates. He has argued six cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and briefed 16 other cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court. In 2007, he was one of two members of the postal bar invited to appear as panelists at a Postal Rate Commission/USPS summit on the implementation of the Postal Accountability and Enforcement Act of 2006.