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Mark L. Levine, one of the country's leading authorities on book contracts, is a former partner of Boston's Sullivan & Worcester LLP and has also been a publisher and book packager. He writes the Contracts Q&A column for the Authors Guild Bulletin and is the founder of www.BookContracts.com. He also conducts seminars for non-lawyers on negotiating and on contract law.

Levine has spent virtually his entire legal career drafting and negotiating a broad range of contracts. He has represented major domestic and foreign financial institutions and Fortune 500 corporations in sophisticated corporate and financial transactions in addition to representing authors and agents in publishing matters. He is a former vice president and member of the Board Mark L. Levine, one of the country's leading authorities on book contracts, is a former partner of Boston's Sullivan & Worcester LLP and has also been a publisher and book packager. He writes the Contracts Q&A column for the Authors Guild Bulletin and is the founder of www.BookContracts.com. He also conducts seminars for non-lawyers on negotiating and on contract law.

Levine has spent virtually his entire legal career drafting and negotiating a broad range of contracts. He has represented major domestic and foreign financial institutions and Fortune 500 corporations in sophisticated corporate and financial transactions in addition to representing authors and agents in publishing matters. He is a former vice president and member of the Board of Directors of the American Book Producers Association.

He is the author of three books, with total sales of more than 200,000 copies. Negotiating a Book Contract: A Guide for Authors, Agents and Lawyers is Levine's third book. He is co-editor of The Tales of Hoffman (Bantam Books 1970), a documentary of courtroom confrontations from the "Chicago 7" conspiracy trial (four printings), and The Complete Book of Bible Quotations (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster 1986; eight printings).

He has also successfully published Picture Stories from the Bible ... in Full-Color Comic-Strip Form (over 100,000 copies sold), hardcover reprints of paperback books that were originally published in the 1940s by M.C. Gaines, one of the founders of DC comics and the father of William M. Gaines, founder of Mad Magazine.

Levine is a graduate of Columbia College, NYU School of Law (where he was a member of Law Review) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (where he was the recipient of the Louis and Pauline Cowan Award for Excellence in Media Management).

Levine is also an experienced voter protection attorney who has worked for progressive political candidates in New York, New Hampshire, Ohio, Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, South Carolina, West Virginia, Florida and Mississippi.

A native of Bath, Maine, he lives in a suburb of New York City. ...more

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	The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript by Mark L. Levine (Goodreads Author) (Editor), George C. McNamee (Editor), Daniel Greenberg (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 1970 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Negotiating a Book Contract: A Guide for Authors, Agents and Lawyers 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Book of Bible Quotations by Mark L. Levine (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugene Rachlis (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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"Thoughtfully assembled chronicle of the trial of seven anti-war activists in 1969 and 1970....The transcript, edited by three lawyers, gives a nearly blow-by-blow accoun ...more "

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