Elijah Levitt

Former Miami-Dade County Court Judge Elijah Levitt is the founder of Levitt Legal, an alternative dispute resolution and trial law firm.  Using the skills he acquired as a judge, an Assistant United States Attorney, and an Assistant State Attorney, Elijah and Levitt Legal seek to help private clients find solutions to their legal problems.  Elijah is a highly skilled mediator, arbitrator, and trial lawyer and knows how to reach the right answer in a legal dispute. 

Levitt Legal is a full-service law firm focusing on dispute resolution.  Elijah trained in the Florida Supreme Court forty-hour certified Mediation Training and is ready to help parties resolve their disputes.  As a judge for more than four years, Elijah also is qualified to assist with arbitrations, mock trials, and settlement conferences. 

Based on his extensive experience with civil litigation, Elijah has the skills required to assist private clients to litigate their cases and take them to trial.  Elijah tried over sixty-four jury trials and hundreds of bench trials as a lawyer and sixteen jury trials and hundreds of bench trials as a former judge.  As a former judge, Elijah has a keen perspective on how to achieve a positive result for Levitt Legal clients. 

Career

From June 11, 2018, to September 30, 2022, Elijah presided as a Miami-Dade County Court judge in the Civil Division.  As a Civil Division County Court Judge, Elijah heard hundreds of cases concerning debt collection, consumer safety, personal injury protection insurance, landlord-tenant disputes, breach of contract, homeowner’s insurance disputes, and a myriad of other legal issues.  As a former judge and a lawyer, he either tried or presided over more than eighty jury trials and two hundred bench trials.  Elijah has the knowledge necessary to help you find a solution to your dispute. 

Prior to becoming a judge, from March 2004 to September 2012, Elijah served as an Assistant State Attorney in the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office.  For the last four years of his service, he prosecuted homicides and offenses committed by documented or suspected gang members in the Gang Prosecution Unit.  In June 2007 to October 2008, Elijah was selected to serve as a Special Assistant United States Attorney on an assignment designed to prosecute violent felons and gang members for federal firearms and narcotics violations. 

From September 2012 to March 2018, Elijah served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.  During his tenure with the United States Attorney’s Office, he prosecuted complex money laundering cases, large-scale narcotics trafficking, and federal financial crimes with the mission to forfeit assets that were involved in federal offenses or that were purchased with the proceeds of those offenses. 

Elijah also received awards for his work as a prosecutor.  In May 2017, the Daily Business Review awarded Elijah with a Rising Star Award based on peer recognition for being an accomplished South Florida lawyer under the age of forty.  In July 2011, Elijah received the Prosecutor of the Quarter Award from the Miami-Dade Association of Chiefs of Police for trying ten cases in a year to successful verdicts. 

Education

In 2000, Elijah graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC with a double major in International Relations and Spanish.  During college, from 1998 to 1999, Elijah was selected to be a college exchange student in Madrid, Spain.  Due in large part to this exchange program, Elijah became fluent in Spanish.  After graduation, from 2000 to 2001, he worked as a litigation paralegal for the Washington, DC office of a New York-based law firm. 

In August 2001, Elijah moved to Miami to attend the University of Miami School of Law and obtained his juris doctor in December 2003.  During his time in law school, Elijah interned for two Miami-Dade County Judges and worked as a law clerk for a Miami-based law firm.  He served as a member of the law school’s Criminal Law Society and Center for Ethics and Public Service and was elected to be a Student Bar Association Senator during his second year of law school.  Elijah also worked for a summer as a Certified Legal Intern with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office in the Misdemeanor Crimes Unit.