The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Rchard Levine an associate general counsel for legal policy in the agency's Office of the General Counsel, effective immediately. Levine will provide legal and policy advice to the Commission on a wide range of matters, with a particular emphasis on enforcement, corporate disclosure, and accounting.

Since 1997, Levine has served as the SEC's assistant general counsel for enforcement, playing a key role in advising the Commission on all aspects of its enforcement program. Before that role, Levine held several positions of increasing responsibility in the SEC's Office of General Counsel, beginning in 1984 as a staff attorney in the Office's Appellate Group and then serving as special counsel and senior special counsel in the Disclosure Policy and Accounting Branch of the Legal Policy Group. Prior to joining the SEC, Levine was a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York.