Mr. Levine is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Morrison & Foerster LLP. He has a complex civil litigation practice, which focuses on patent and securities litigation.

Mr. Levine has represented litigation clients in a wide range of industries and matters. His clients have included Citigroup, Solomon Smith Barney, Time Warner, and Sears Holding Corp. While representing Citigroup in Enron Shareholder Litigations, Mr. Levine held primary responsibility for a motion to dismiss which led the Southern District of Texas to hold that the extended limitations period of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act does not apply retroactively or to pending cases.

Mr. Levine has represented individual and corporate clients in SEC investigations, SEC enforcement proceedings, private securities litigation in both state and federal court, and internal investigations. In addition, Mr. Levine has experience in many types of complex civil litigation, including antitrust, civil RICO, intellectual property, trade secrets, constitutional matters, contract actions, commercial landlord tenant and criminal matters.

Mr. Levine has served as a law clerk to Judge Richard Cudahy in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He also served as a law clerk to Judge William Hoeveler in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Mr. Levine has also had the opportunity to first-chair numerous bench and jury trials while serving as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the Wayne County Prosecutors Office in Detroit, Michigan.

Mr. Levine received his B.A. degree summa cum laude and phi beta kappa in philosophy, political science, and economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He received his J.D. degree magna cum laude from New York University in 2001. While at NYU, Mr. Levine served as an editor for the Annual Review of American Law and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

After graduating from law school, Mr. Levine worked as an associate for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, as well as Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mr. Levine joined Morrison & Foerster’s Palo Alto Office in 2006.

Mr. Levine is a member of the State Bar of New York, Washington D.C., and Michigan.

Publications

• Commentary: Can Employees Keep Proceeds from Backdated Stock Options?, Andrews Corporate Officers and Directors Liability Litigation Reporter and Andrews Securities Litigation and Regulation Reporter, August 2008
• Looking Back at Backdating: Latest Trends In Stock Option Backdating Litigation, Securities Litigation Report, October 2007
• Keeping Current: Corporate Governance , Business Law Today, Sept./Oct., 2007
• For Derivative Plaintiffs, A Key Stock Options Decision, Securities Law360, June 20, 2007
• Northern District of California Sets Tough Backdating Standard, Executive Counsel, March/April 2007
• Backdating and Spring-Loading Actions Survive Motions to Dismiss in Delaware Chancery Court, Securities Litigation Report, March 2007
• Can Agreeing Not To Involve The Police Land You And Your Client In Jail?, Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly, May 15, 2006
• Email your client at work and kiss privilege goodbye, Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly, Feb. 27, 2006
• Immunize your clients from avian flu; Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly, December 19, 2005.
• The Anticybersquatting Act: 'Mattel' and In Rem Jurisdiction, New York Law Journal, Nov. 27, 2002
• Preclusion Confusion: A call for Per Se Rules Preventing the Application of Collateral Estoppel to Findings Made in Nontraditional Litigation, 1999 Ann. Surv. Am. L. 435