CT's Environmental
Law Enforcer
18 CONNECTICUT GREEN GUIDE • SUMMER 2015 www.CTGreenGuide.com
Practical and tenacious,
Assistant Attorney General
Matthew Levine steps up
to lead prosecution of the
state's worst environmental
enforcement cases
By Brad Kane
M
atthew Levine decided
he wanted to be a lawyer
when he was standing in a
courtroom.
While working court security in
his year after college, Levine over-
heard a parking ticket case, where
the defendant was pleading for the
ticket to be thrown out but having
a hard time getting his attorney to
make the proper argument.
"The attorney was doing a ter-
rible job, quite frankly," Levine
said. "If that attorney could make
a living doing that, I figured out I
could do it, too."
