Jared Levine is a counsel in the Litigation Group at Crowell & Moring's New York office.
Jared's practice focuses on complex litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, with an emphasis on commercial disputes arising from financial transactions, post-closing merger and asset sale disputes, business torts, shareholder litigation, consumer class actions, product liability and false advertising claims, and white collar civil defense.
Jared appears regularly in state and federal trial courts, as well as commercial arbitrations, where he represents clients from a broad range of industries, including investment banks, private equity firms, auto manufacturers, health insurers, commodity and securities trading companies, retail restaurant chains, and software developers.
Jared also devotes a substantial portion of his practice to pro bono litigation and has represented dozens of individuals in immigration proceedings, employment disputes, criminal appeals, and landlord-tenant litigation. In November 2020, the National Law Journal named Jared to its list of 2020 Immigration Law Trailblazer for his work on behalf of victims of the Trump Administration’s family separation policy.
Jared also currently serves as the Impact Litigation Fellow at the non-profit Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, where he focuses on representing low income tenants in impact litigation designed to expand access to affordable rent stabilized housing in New York City.
Jared graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers School of Law in 2010, where he was class valedictorian and the recipient of the Saul Tischler Memorial Award, the Harry A. Moore Prize, and the Rutgers Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award for International Law. While in law school, Jared was elected co-chair of the Rutgers Moot Court Board while also serving as a judicial intern to the Honorable Dickinson R. Debevoise, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Honorable Delissa Ridgway, U.S. Court of International Trade.
Representative Matters
- Represented international investment bank in obtaining successful pre-answer dismissal of business tort and fraud claims arising from sale of a portfolio company.
- Represented commodities trading firm in successful appeal to the New York Appellate Division, First Department, resulting in summary judgment dismissal of claim for breach of an international petrochemical sales contract.
- Represented global auto manufacturer in obtaining pre-answer dismissal of a federal, nationwide class action lawsuit alleging false advertising and product liability claims.
- Represented private equity firm in successful appeal to the New York Appellate Division, First Department, resulting in dismissal of a fraud claim arising from a terminated joint investment agreement.
- Represented shareholder in successful appeal to Delaware Supreme Court in lawsuit seeking to establish personal jurisdiction over foreign-resident director in connection with breach of share purchase agreement.
- Represented Hong Kong securities brokerage firm in obtaining pre-answer dismissal of a business tort lawsuit arising from an international securities-lending agreement.
- Represented national retail marketing firm in AAA arbitration, obtaining summary judgment dismissal in a post-closing earn-out dispute arising from an asset purchase agreement.
- Represented insurer in successful appeal to the New York Court of Appeals, obtaining reversal of summary judgment decision and dismissal of high exposure construction liability claim.
- Represented head of asset backed securities trading desk for an international bank in successful resolution of civil litigation brought by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Affiliations
Admitted to practice: New York; New Jersey; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and Eastern District of Michigan, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits, U.S. Supreme Court
Publications
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"Litigation Forecast 2020: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year," a Crowell & Moring LLP publication
(January 22, 2020).
Creator and Editor: Mark A. Klapow. Associate Editor: Jared Levine.
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"Jeff Sessions' Asylum Policy Flouts Legal Precedent," Real Clear Policy
(July 27, 2018).
Authors: Sarah Gilbert, Jared Levine, and Sehar F. Sabir.
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"Simplifying Privilege Logs: New York's Commercial Division Proposes Categorical Privilege Logs," Crowell & Moring's E-Discovery Law Insights
(April 9, 2014).
Author: Jared Levine.
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"Protecting Confidential Information: Taking Appropriate Steps to Avoid Sanctions," Crowell & Moring's E-Discovery Law Insights
(March 7, 2014).
Co-Authors: David D. Cross and Jared Levine.
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"Protecting Confidential Information: Lessons From the Apple v. Samsung Firestorm," Bloomberg BNA Digital Discovery & e-Evidence
(February 27, 2014).
Co-Authors: David D. Cross and Jared Levine.
Client Alerts & Newsletters
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"Supreme Court Clarifies that Pending Class Actions Toll Only Individual Claims, Not Successive Class Actions: China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh,"
(June 12, 2018).
Contacts: April Nelson Ross, Jared Levine
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"Department of Labor Proposes FMLA Rule on Leave for Caregivers to Servicemembers and Airline Flight Crew Employees,"
Labor & Employment Law Alert - US
(February 14, 2012).
Contacts: Ira M. Saxe, Jared Levine, Thomas P. Gies
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"NLRB and FINRA Signal Federal Push To Create A Right for Employees To Pursue Collective Litigation Regardless of Arbitration Agreements,"
Labor & Employment Law Alert - US
(January 12, 2012).
Contacts: Jared Levine, Kris D. Meade, Thomas P. Gies, Glenn D. Grant
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