Jonathan K. Levine

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Education
• J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1988
• B.A., Columbia University, 1985

Admissions
• California;
• New York;
• Connecticut;
• United States Supreme Court;
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits;
• United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Northern District of Texas, Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Districts of California, District of Colorado

Memberships
• American Bar Association;
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers – Northern California;
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Jonathan K. Levine has more than 20 years of experience prosecuting complex securities fraud, accounting fraud and class action litigation. He has served and is serving in a leadership capacity in numerous complex class actions in federal courts throughout the United States and in state courts in California. Mr. Levine has prosecuted over 20 securities fraud actions successfully, including cases of complex accounting fraud. Some of the cases in which Mr. Levine served in a leadership role include In re American Express Financial Advisors Securities Litigation ($100 million settlement), Rosen v. Macromedia, Inc. ($48 million settlement), In re Gupta Corporation Securities Litigation ($15 million settlement), Provenz v. Miller ($15 million settlement), and Providian Credit Card Cases, where as co-lead counsel he obtained a class action settlement of $105 million, one of the largest class action recoveries in the United States arising out of consumer credit card litigation.

Mr. Levine leads the pretrial preparation in the In re SLM Securities Litigation. He participates in firm’s representation of purchasers of auction rate securities in actions against several investment banks and broker-dealers, structured note holders in the In re Lehman Brothers Equity/Debt Securities Litigation. Mr. Levine serves as co-lead counsel in an action against Wyndham Resort Development Corp. on behalf of members of WorldMark, a time-share club. He also has had a leadership role in two significant date security breach cases, In re Countrywide Financial Corp. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation and Beringer v. Certegy Check Services, Inc.

Mr. Levine is the author of “E-Mail and Voice Mail Discovery Issues,” Glasser LegalWorks (1998), “Discovery Techniques in Commercial Litigation and Recent Developments In the Rules of Discovery,” American Trial Lawyers Association (1991), and the co-author of “The Business Judgment Rule and Derivative Actions,” Practicing Law Institute (1989). He has lectured on securities litigation under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, consumer fraud and predatory lending litigation, computer discovery and electronic data retention risk control, and was a featured speaker addressing Successful Direct Examination of Expert Witnesses at the Bridgeport 2011 Conference on Working With and Deposing Experts (March 2011). Mr. Levine participated in the 2011 California Lawyer Securities Roundtable, focusing on recent securities-related Supreme Court rulings and newly-enacted incentives for whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Act. Mr. Levine is a member of the Committee on Federal Courts of the State Bar of California. He is the past chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section Subcommittee on Officers and Directors Liability and currently serves on the Piedmont Planning Commission.

For nine years prior to joining Girard Gibbs, Mr. Levine was a partner of a New York law firm, where he specialized in securities fraud, accounting fraud and consumer class action litigation. Mr. Levine is a 1988 graduate of Fordham University School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1985. Mr. Levine is a member of the California, New York and Connecticut Bars, and is admitted to practice in federal courts throughout the United States.