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Jamie Levitt Recognized by the Financial Times for Innovative Leadership

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The Financial Times has recognized New York Managing Partner Jamie Levitt for Innovative Leadership in the FT 2022 North American Innovative Lawyers Report. Legal leaders were recognized for their impact during a period of great change.

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The Financial Times has recognized New York Managing Partner Jamie Levitt for Innovative Leadership in the FT 2022 North American Innovative Lawyers Report. Legal leaders were recognized for their impact during a period of great change.The Financial times recognized that Jamie, an experienced trial lawyer and managing partner of the firm’s New York office, is using her position at the firm to champion social justice causes. Since becoming chair of The Morrison & Foerster Foundation in 2015, Jamie has led several fundraisings, for COVID-19 pandemic response, to promote racial equity, and, most recently, for Ukraine, following the Russian invasion.In her pro bono practice, she is leading a team working alongside the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in a civil rights suit on behalf of four black and Latina girls challenging the Binghamton School District over allegedly racially biased searches. In 2021, Jamie joined a high-profile challenge to Texas’ unprecedented abortion law, Texas Senate Bill 8. Jamie, and a team of MoFo lawyers, partnered with the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU in this hard-fought litigation all the way to the Supreme Court.As a recognized innovative leader, Jamie participated in the FT Innovative Lawyers: Law Firm Leaders Roundtable. Held under the Chatham House Rule, the legal industry’s most innovative leaders discussed topical issues impacting law firm businesses and leadership and shared what it means to be a successful law firm.The FT, in partnership with RSGi, compiles shortlists comprising the top-ranked submissions for each section of the report. In 2022, the FT received more than 250 submissions and shortlisted more than 50 companies. Morrison Foerster is among a small group of firms to receive four or more shortlist recognitions. You can view the full FT 2022 North American Innovative Lawyers Report on the Financial Times <a href="https://www.ft.com/reports/north-america-innovative-lawyers">website</a>.

Jamie Levitt Recognized by the Financial Times for Innovative Leadership

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Jamie Levitt is a trial lawyer and managing partner of the New York office. She is also the former head of the New York Litigation Department. Her practice involves all aspects of complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on securities litigation. She has represented public companies and their officers and directors in securities fraud actions, shareholder derivative suits, as well as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory investigations. She also has experience conducting and defending corporate internal investigations and advising board committees and individuals with respect to investigations.As a trial lawyer, Jamie has extensive experience representing companies in the courtroom in a broad range of commercial disputes, including consumer class actions, bankruptcy contested proceedings, real-estate financing disputes and intellectual property cases involving trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition claims. Her clients include companies, officers, and directors in a wide array of industries, including consumer goods, financial services, life sciences, technology, and real estate.Jamie is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA in the New York: Commercial Litigation category, where clients noted that “she’s a force of nature, really thoughtful and a real leader” and “she is a phenomenal trial lawyer, she masters complex subjects quickly and can jump into court and handle them wonderfully.” She is also routinely recognized for her work in complex securities litigations by leading rankings publications including The Legal 500 US, where she is recommended in the Securities Litigation: Defense category. Jamie was also named to the Crain’s New York Business Notable Women in Law list in 2019, which recognizes leading female attorneys in New York who are furthering justice.Jamie serves on numerous boards and committees of public interest groups, the Board of Counselors for Equal Justice Works; executive vice president and past chair of the Board of Advocates for Children of New York, Inc.; executive committee and past chair of the Board of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest; the Board of VisionSpring; the Board of The Cooper Union. She previously served on the Board of the Federal Bar Council and as chair of its Public Service Committee, the Board of the Center for Reproductive Rights; and the Legal Advisory Board for Sanctuary for Families. Jamie also sat on Morrison Foerster’s Board of Directors and its Governance Committee; was chair of Morrison Foerster’s Pro Bono Committee. She currently serves as chair of The Morrison Foerster Foundation.Jamie received her B.A. magna cum laude in 1988 from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. in 1992 from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an Articles Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. From 1993 to 1994, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Nathaniel M. Gorton, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.

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