When it comes to scoring VIP DNA, Adam Levy hit the motherlode. 

But the lawyer and former District Attorney of Putnam County, New York, isn’t robing up to preside over his first solo daytime courtroom show, “Adam’s Law,” debuting September 14, simply because his mother’s the renowned Judge Judith “Judy” Sheindlin.

Instead, the lean, mean litigating machine is taking the bench to, hopefully, inspire the next generation of would-be punks, perps and politicians alike to “Do better” — and to prove that a “nepo baby” label isn’t the golden ticket that earns him a seat at the table. 

“Despite the fact that I have a famous mother, I got the chops as well,” Levy, 57, exclusively told The Post, insisting his forthcoming Connecticut-set CBS program won’t be just a repackaged facsimile of the iconic “Judge Judy” series, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary on Sept. 16. 

Levy’s “chops,” legal prowess he developed as a Hofstra Law School grad-turned-criminal defense attorney, prosecutor and jurist on Amazon’s “Tribunal Justice” (an ongoing 3-season reality court show produced by his mother), shine as the credentials that certify him as a real deal adjudicator, rather than just another lucky celebrity kid who hit the biological jackpot via nepotism. 

In the era of the baller nepo babies — when A-list offspring are reportedly receiving $1 million monthly allowances, and securing top spots on magazine covers and silver screens as perks of their pedigrees —  Levy stands out as the antithesis of the trend.  

And the Bronx native’s no-nonsense mama, the executive producer of his show — thus, the boss of him — wouldn’t be passing her son the torch, trusting him to ensure that the family business doesn’t go up in flames, if she didn’t believe he’d keep her legal legacy strong for the next 30 years to come. 

“She told me, ‘Now’s the time,’” Levy laughed, recalling Sheindlin’s recent demand he take on daytime TV on his own.

Her marching orders came just as the avid snow skier was suiting up to hit the slopes for some extended downtime away from busting bad guys on- and off-camera, after the third season of “Tribunal Justice” premiered this past March.

“I tried to get out, but she pulled me back in,” teased Levy. “Now that she’s asked me to come in, I understand that some might say, ‘Well those are pretty big shoes to fill.’ And they are.”

“But I’m here to fill my own shoes and to put my own stamp on it,” he said, “I’m confident in my own style.” 

Distinguishing himself from Sheindlin’s unmistakable savoir-faire — a style made complete by her signature “Baloney!” rebuke and quickness to kick slicksters out of her courtroom — Levy plans to take a more methodical approach to the small claims cases that will come across his desk for the new show. 

Beefs between feuding family members, scorned ex-lovers and irate tenants with axes to grind against shady landlords. Disputes that even cause him and Sheindlin to bump heads at times.

“We don’t agree on all the cases,” said Levy. “I talk with her sometimes if I have an issue with a case, she’ll give me her thoughts, I’ll push back.”

Rather than rushing to his own conclusions, or revering Sheindlin’s word as law, Levy spends hours, sometimes days, reviewing the evidence, such as background information, contracts, photos, emails and texts, ahead of each proceeding. 

“I am hyper-focused on the cases that I get the week before,” he explained. “Some judges just get the materials a few days in advance, read the pleadings — the complaint from the plaintiff and the answer from the defendant — and boom, they’ve prepped the case in 20 minutes.”

But a wham, bam, thank you ma’am rush job simply won’t suffice in Levy’s court — even if it is just an exquisitely decked out set on a soundstage

“We get to the bottom [of an issue],” he bragged of himself and his team of legal pros and producers. “We get to the truth. That’s what’s important.”

For Levy, taking his judicial talents to TV isn’t about becoming an overnight sensation or outpacing his mom in Emmy Award wins and Hollywood Walk of Fame star accolades. Instead, it’s a calling he’s been ready to answer since elementary school.

“Since the fourth grade I knew I wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew I wanted to be a prosecutor — [my mother] was a prosecutor and supervising judge in the New York City Family Court. I saw her doing that when I was young,” said Levy, who learned the hard way that following in Sheindlin’s footsteps wouldn’t be a cakewalk. 

“On Halloween, I’d dress up as a lawyer. I got bullied,” he chuckled. “But it was good. It gave me tough skin.” 

That tough skin toughened him up to become a sometimes “mischievous” teenager growing up in the Big Apple during the 1970s and 80s, when getting into trouble or winding up in danger was as simple as sitting next to the wrong guy on the bus. 

But Levy credits the city, as well as bumps in the road he encountered (or created) throughout adolescence, with making him a swift judge of character — a gift that comes in handy as the final word on “Adam’s Law.”

“I learned very early in life how to go about cross-examining someone who was not telling the truth [to] get to the truth,” said the authority. “You had to be able to size people up very quickly when you were out in public. The aggressiveness, the stance, the stare downs.”

“And after many years of that, it just kind of sunk in.”

Now seated upon his hardwood throne, an on-set pedestal positioned between law clerk Jessica Ramirez and bailiff Rodney Young, Levy utilizes both his book- and street-smarts (plus the lessons he learned at Sheindlin’s knee) to hand down fair judgments while under the spotlight. 

“At the end of the day, there’s only one truth. If you try to fudge that truth…[I’m going to give] you enough rope to hang yourself,” Levy cautioned scammers thinking about pulling a fast one in his house. 

“I’m going to come in with whatever evidence I know contradicts your claims, and it’s not going to be pleasant for you,” he warned. 

After making wrongdoers writhe in shame, Hizzoner seals the verbal spankings with a stern scolding: “Do better!”

He dishes it to a woman who stiffed a grandmother out of a nearly $4,000 loan on an episode. He later fastballs it to a snooty diva who argued that, for her, operating a vehicle sans a valid driver’s license wasn’t a crime because she’s just “so pretty.” 

But Levy’s not easily swayed by fast-talkers nor pretty faces.  

“Do better means be a better person,” he tells The Post. “If you know you’ve done something wrong, do the right thing [to make the other person whole].”

Levy advises the powers that be of NYC to do better, too. 

“The soft-on-crime approach that we’ve seen since 2016 and 2017 [is] super concerning,” he said, taking a swipe at lawmakers, judges, prosecutors and New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg — oft-slammed by critics for villainizing victims while going easy on suspects. 

Levy suggests lenient officials try taking the subway, unaccompanied by any security detail, or opening up halfway houses in their own cushy neighborhoods, forcing them to live amongst violent repeat offenders, rather than releasing wrongdoers into communities full of hapless innocents. 

“All [the politicians] are doing is putting all those good hardworking people — taking the subway every day, being out on the streets at night going to whatever jobs just to put food on the table — is making less safe for them. For what?” he barked. “It is absolute insanity to me.” 

“And it’s not going to get any better until it gets worse.”

For his part in making the world a better place, righting low-level wrongs on the small screen, Levy is guided by a few words of wisdom from Sheindlin, as well as his wife, Lori. 

“My wife would say, ‘Adam, you can’t do very much. You can’t build anything or fix anything.’ But when it comes to trying cases, she says, ‘There’s no one better at it,’” he blushed, committed to meeting Lori’s expectations with every swing of his gavel. 

It’s a commitment he’s sure to fulfill thanks to the morals his mom’s instilled. 

“In our family we believe in cosmic dust. If you do the wrong thing someone up there [in the universe] is gonna give you your just desserts. Karma is a b- -ch,” said Levy. 

“But when good things happen, you can chalk it up to cosmic dust because you’ve done the right thing,” he continued. “That’s what she’s taught all of the kids.”

And Sheindlin, a mother of five, grandmother of 13, and TV icon to millions, isn’t done schooling her adult son in the ways of doing things right by her standards. 

“When I started ‘Adam’s Law’ she gave me a very direct piece of advice,” remembered Levy. 

“‘Don’t screw this up!’”