Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Jeff LeVee's practice focuses on complex business and class action litigation, antitrust litigation, health care litigation, and antitrust counseling. He has successfully litigated matters in state and federal courts in numerous cities. His clients include health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, retailers, telecommunications companies, manufacturers, and Internet companies. Jeff is Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day's Silicon Valley Office and coordinator of the antitrust and competition law practice in the Firm's California region.

Jeff has successfully defended dozens of class action lawsuits, including a successful jury verdict following a trial on antitrust claims on behalf of Macy's. He also has represented several health care providers in various health-related litigation. In addition, Jeff has successfully defended all litigation matters brought against ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) since its inception in 1998.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust & Competition Law
• Antitrust Litigation
• General Antitrust Counseling
• Antitrust Intellectual Property
• Health Care
• Antitrust/Health Care

Representative Cases

• Azizian v. Federated Dep’t Stores, Inc., No. 3:03 CV-03359 SBA, 2006 WL 927333 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 10, 2006)
• Cardiac Inst. Gen. P’ship v. Banner Health Sys., CIV 01 0297 PHX SRB (D. Ariz., filed Feb. 15, 2001); CV2001-002668 (Ariz. Super. Ct., filed Feb. 14, 2001)
• Coalition for ICANN Transparency v. VeriSign, Inc. and ICANN, Case No. 5:05-CV-04826 (N.D. Cal. 2006)
• Doe v. Arizona Hosp. and Healthcare Ass'n, et al., Case 2:07-cv-01292-SRB (D. Ariz.)
• First Class Vending v. The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. and PepsiCo, Inc., Case 2:06-cv-05628-SVW (C.D. Cal.)
• Gaston v. Procter & Gamble Dist. Co., No. BC 31120 (L.A. Sup. Ct., filed Feb. 25, 2004)
• HealthTemps v. Arizona Hosp. and Healthcare Ass'n, et al., No. CV05-1793 (D.Az. 2005)
• In re Medical X-Ray Film Antitrust Litig., No. CV-93-5904 (E.D.N.Y., filed Dec. 23, 1993)
• In re Methionine Antitrust Litig., MDL Docket No. 1311, 2001 WL 1018708, 2001 WL 679115, 204 F.R.D. 161, 2003 WL 22048232 (N.D. Cal.)
• In re Packaged Ice Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1952 (E.D. Mich.)
• In re Tableware Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal. 2007)
• McNeil v. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, No. 03-16946 (9th Cir. Apr. 1, 2005)
• Michael Stowers v. Sutter Roseville Medical Center, et al.
• Ricoh Co., Ltd. v. Katun Corp., No. 03-CV-2612 (WHW) (D.N.J.)
• Sanders v. Philip Morris USA, No. BC313407 (Cal. Sup. Ct., Los Angeles Cty., filed April 7, 2004)
• Shames v. Hertz, et al., Case 3:07-cv-02174-H-BLM (S.D. Cal.)
• Snapnames.com v. Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers, No. BC320763 (Cal. Sup. Ct., filed Aug. 27, 2004)
• St. Luke’s Hosp. v. Cal. Pac. Med. Ctr., No. 300518 (Cal. Sup. Ct., filed Jan. 14, 1999)
• State of California v. Safeway, Inc., et al., No. CV-04-0687 AG (C.D. Calif.)
• VeriSign, Inc. v. Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN), No. CV 03-1292, 2004 WL 2095696 (C.D. Cal., filed Feb. 26, 2004)
• William Michas v. Ricoh Corp., No. 03cc 14030 (Cal. Sup. Ct., Orange Cty., filed Nov. 24, 2003)
• Acquisition of May Department Stores
• ARCO Merger
• Combination with KPMG
• Jones Day Applauds ICANN's Tenth Anniversary
• Methionine Cartel Investigation
• Outside General Counsel
• Tambrands Acquisition

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Complex Litigation, Copyrights, Deceptive Trade Practices, Disability, Elder Law, Food & Drug Administration, Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Antitrust, International Intellectual Property, Litigation & Appeals, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Nursing Home, Patents, RICO Act, Social Security -- Disability, Trade Regulation, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Northwestern University

Published Works

• Antitrust Roundtable, a discussion of the impact on antitrust law of three cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, California Lawyer, 2006
• Ninth Circuit To Re-Examine Personal Jurisdiction Over Internet Sellers, 2004
• Hospital v. Hospital Lawsuits, 2001
• Antitrust in the Digital Age: Important or Irrelevant? coauthor, Intellectual Property Magazine, 1997

Address

1755 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303

Phones

1.650.687.4166 / 1.213.243.2572 (Los Angeles) (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.650.739.3900 / 1.213.243.2539 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com