Robert Levine is a Senior Manager in the Dispute Consulting group. The practice encompasses all areas of litigation support, forensic accounting and computer forensics. Mr. Levine has significant experience in providing a broad range of business and financial advice to trial lawyers and in-house counsel throughout the dispute process, including matters involving breach of contract, tortious interference, shareholder disputes, warranty and recall disputes, fraud and forensic investigations, post M&A disputes, securities litigation, business interruption claims, disputes in the context of bankruptcy, labor and economics disputes, as well as matters involving theft of trade secrets and intellectual property infringement.
Mr. Levine has provided consulting services in numerous matters involving automotive warranty and recall costs. His experience and expertise includes automotive warranty and recall data analytics, benchmarking, risk assessments, and recall cost analysis. He frequently consults with both OEMs and suppliers to assist in measuring the costs of a recall to the OEM, the internal systems for recall and warranty data collection and reporting, measurement and assessment of recall and product defect risks, and analysis of recall completion rates. He has analyzed warranty and recall circumstances of many sizes, from large recalls affecting millions of vehicles to small recalls or extended warranty actions affecting several thousand vehicles. In addition, he has analyzed a broad spectrum of product failure response, from elevated product failure and warranty to full scale recall of all impacted vehicles.
Annually, Mr. Levine presents the industry’s only comprehensive analysis of automotive recall trends and warranty costs / accruals for the SAA (Society of Automotive Analysts) and publishes an annual white paper concurrent with that presentation.
Mr. Levine received a Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, having graduated with High Distinction.
Prior to joining Stout, Mr. Levine was with Deloitte & Touche, LLP in its Audit & Enterprise Risk Services group in Detroit.
Professional Memberships
• Original Equipment Suppliers Association
• Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA)
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
Testimony Experience
Lisa Ricchio v. Bijal, Inc. d/b/a Shangri-La Motel, Ashvinkumar Patel, Sima Patel, and Clark McClean, United States
District Court, District of Massachusettes, 2018
Christine Ekalliipse Mouloki v. Marie Paule Epee and Eric Ngado Epee, United States District Court, Northern
District of Illinois Eastern Division, 2017
United States of America v. Hortencia Medeles-Arguello et al., United States District Court for the Southern District
of Texas, 2015
Publications
“Fault Lines: The Changing Relationship Between OEMs and Suppliers,” 2017 Automotive Warranty & Recall
Report, Stout, September 2017
“Guarding Your Character: Demonstrating Intent in Private-Equity Funding,” The SRR Journal, Spring 2016
“Guarding Your Character: Demonstrating Intent in Private-Equity Funding,” American Bankruptcy Institute,
January 2016
“Informing The Artisan: Reasonable Certainty In Patent Claims,” Law 360, July 2015
“Informing the Artisan: Reasonable Certainty in Patent Claims Construction,” The SRR Journal, Fall 2015
“Texas Supreme Court Addresses Standard for Expert Opinion on Damages,” American Bar Association, May 2015
“Tests of Character: Challenges to Unsecured Claims in the Mount Olive and American Housing Foundation
Bankruptcies”, The SRR Journal, Spring 2015
"Dollars and Common Sense: Understanding Reasonable Certainty in International Arbitration", Journal of
Damages in International Arbitration, Volume 2, No. 1, April 2015
“Bankruptcy Court Eschews Reliance on Multi-Factor Test,” American Bar Association, November 2014
“A Test of Character: Challenges to Unsecured Claims in the Mt. Olive Bankruptcy,” ABI Committee Newsletter,
November 2014
Speeches and Seminars
"5th Annual State of Automotive Recall and Warranty Summit" Society of Automotive Analysts Automotive
Warranty and Recall Symposium, March 2018
"Re-engineering Recall: What Will the Future of Recall Look Like?" Society of Automotive Analyst's Automotive
Warranty and Recall Symposium, March 2017
“The Anatomy of Financial Statements – Oops, on the Brink of Bankruptcy” MICPA, June 2016
"Report on Automotive Warranty Claims and OEM Recalls," Society of Automotive Analysts, March 2016