David Levy

Practice Areas

David Levy, partner in the litigation practice, leads the litigation practice in Houston and is a co-leader of the international arbitration team. He is a seasoned litigator who focuses his practice on high-stakes commercial and intellectual property disputes. He also counsels clients on litigation avoidance and crisis management. With more than three decades of experience as a trial and appellate lawyer, he has represented technology, financial services, energy, insurance, manufacturing, and retail clients in US federal and state courts and before US and international arbitration tribunals. In several of these cases, billions of dollars were at stake.

His intellectual property practice includes handling patent cases, trademark disputes, and trade secret theft matters across the United States. He has a particularly strong track record of defending clients against nonpracticing entities in patent litigation matters involving a wide variety of hardware, software, wireless, and ecommerce technologies. He litigates, tries, and arbitrates complex domestic and international business disputes involving oil and gas, fiduciary duty, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) issues, securities issues, and other contractual issues. He also defends companies against class action claims.

He is a frequent speaker and author on litigation, arbitration, and intellectual property (IP) topics. He is a former editor in chief of The Houston Lawyer magazine and the editor of the book International Litigation—Defending and Suing Foreign Parties in U.S. Federal Courts. He has written articles for professional journals such as The Advocate, The Corporate Counselor, Getting the Deal Through, The Houston Lawyer, Intellectual Property Litigation, International Litigation News, Law360, National Law Journal, Texas Lawyer, and Texas Transnational Law Quarterly.

To learn more about David and his experience, please go to: https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/dlevy

Personal

Harvard Law School, 1991, J.D.

University of Texas at Austin, 1987, B.A., Highest Honors/Phi Beta Kappa