[7] Known as the Patti Starr affair, the legal proceedings received prominent news coverage and he acted for her before the Houlden Commission.
[8][9] This case contributed to the collapse of the David Peterson provincial Liberal government since many cabinet ministers were involved with Starr.
[13][14] In the early 1990s, Levitt represented Marek Machtinger, a car dealership employee who disputed the severance pay and termination clause against his former employer.
[3] Levitt's firm worked on the Matthews v. Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd. case, which reached the Supreme Court for its verdict.
[20] His team represented Matthews, a former Ocean Nutrition Canada employee who sought damages over his exclusion from the company's long-term incentive plan (LTIP).
[21] In 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled that Matthews was entitled to over $1 million in damages for the loss of the LTIP payments.
[22][23] In February 2023, he co-counselled with local counsel and won the largest compensation ever awarded for an employment law case in New Brunswick.
[30][31] A Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies reviewer praised it as "an indispensable addition to any course on employment law.
His titles include The Law of Dismissal for Human Resources Professionals and War Stories from the Workplace: Columns by Howard Levitt.