David J. Levy

Partner

David J. Levy is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation and Intellectual Property Practices. Mr. Levy focuses his practice on complex commercial and intellectual property disputes that range from business torts to class actions to patent infringement cases. He has also represented clients in securities, ERISA, probate, product liability, oil and gas, real estate, and employment litigation matters; and he has provided crisis management advice to clients in a variety of industries.

Mr. Levy's litigation and dispute resolution background includes trying cases in federal and state courts, as well as before ad hoc, NASD, NYSE, AAA, and ICC arbitration tribunals. Many of these cases have involved foreign parties, incidents, or transactions. Mr. Levy has tried more than a dozen cases (often as first chair) and has argued a number of appeals. Over the past four years alone, Mr. Levy has been co-lead counsel for technology companies in more than 10 patent litigation cases—most of which were or are being litigated in the Eastern District of Texas.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Levy was a partner in the Litigation, International, and Intellectual Property and Technology Departments and co-chair of the Asia-Pacific Practice Group and International Litigation Practice Group at a full-service international law firm.

Mr. Levy is the editor and a co-author of the American Bar Association's book, International Litigation - Defending and Suing Foreign Parties in U.S. Federal Courts. He also has had articles published in professional journals, such as International Litigation News, The Houston Lawyer, The Texas Lawyer, The National Law Journal, The Corporate Counselor, Texas Transnational Law Quarterly, and the Intellectual Property Litigation newsletter. He is also a frequent speaker and moderator at continuing legal education seminars, professional conferences, and in-house presentations around the world. Most recently, he was the co-chair and co-moderator of the session on "Strategies for companies facing patent litigation - is it possible to win?" at the 2007 Annual Conference of the International Bar Association in Singapore; and he was a speaker at the session on "New Partners in Private International Law: Developing New Norms for Global Business Transactions" at the 2006 Spring Meeting of the International Law Section of the ABA in New York City.

Mr. Levy is the U.S. country chair (Southwest Region) for the International Bar Association's Litigation Committee and a member of the Houston Bar Association, the Texas Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association. He is also a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and the Houston Bar Foundation; he is a past chairman of the Lone Star Legal Aid and a past president of the Gulf Coast Legal Foundation.

Mr. Levy received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991. During law school, he served as a judicial intern for U.S. District Court Judge Sim Lake in Houston. Mr. Levy received his B.A., with highest honors/Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.

Mr. Levy is admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Federal Circuits.