Jeffrey A.LeVee (Jeff)

As the head of the litigation practice in the Los Angeles Office, Jeff LeVee focuses on antitrust litigation, health care litigation, and complex business and antitrust counseling. Jeff has successfully litigated and arbitrated matters in courts and other administrative bodies throughout the United States. The clients he represents include health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, retailers, telecommunications companies, manufacturers, and technology companies.

Jeff has successfully defended dozens of class action lawsuits. He recently led the defense of Sutter Health, a hospital system in Northern California, in an antitrust case alleging that Sutter restrained competition via its contracts with insurance companies. After a month-long jury trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in Sutter's favor. Jeff also obtained a successful jury verdict in an antitrust action involving a certified consumer class against Macy's, and he successfully represented Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in a seven-week jury trial (affirmed on appeal) in an antitrust lawsuit involving an alleged group boycott. Jeff has defended nearly all of the litigation and adversary proceedings brought against ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) since Jones Day assisted in the formation of ICANN in 1998, including a successful Ninth Circuit decision in 2015 dismissing antitrust and other claims against ICANN.

Jeff was an active member of the ABA Antitrust Section's leadership between 1997 and 2018. He served twice on the Council of the Section, and he served terms as chair of the Trial Practice, Civil Practice & Procedure, Global Private Litigation, and Spring Meeting Committees.