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

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

Jonathan K. Levine has nearly 20 years of experience prosecuting complex securities fraud, accounting fraud and class action litigation. He has served and is serving as court-appointed class counsel, lead counsel and liaison counsel in numerous complex class actions in federal courts throughout the United States and in California state court. Mr. Levine has prosecuted over 25 securities fraud actions successfully, including many cases of complex accounting fraud involving Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, KPMG Peat Marwick, Deloitte & Touche, Price Waterhouse and Grant Thornton. For nine years prior to joining Girard Gibbs, Mr. Levine was a partner at the New York law firm of Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP, where he specialized in securities fraud, accounting fraud and consumer class action litigation.

Mr. Levine currently represents Allianz of America, Inc., Fireman's Fund and other private large institutional investors in federal securities litigation against Grant Thornton, Salomon Smith Barney and other defendants arising out of their investments in Winstar Communications, Inc. He is court-appointed co-lead counsel in the In re American Express Financial Advisors Securities Litigation and the AOL Spin-Off Accounts Billing Litigation. He also is serving as lead counsel in Paul v. HCI Direct, Inc., and Bowen v. Whirlpool Corporation.

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, and computer discovery and electronic data retention risk control. Mr. Levine was recently appointed as 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. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Piedmont Planning Commission.

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 State Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Connecticut Bar Association, American Bar Association, the Association of Business Trial Lawyers – Northern California, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He is admitted to the New York, Connecticut and California Bars. He also is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Northern District of Texas, and the Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Districts of California.