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- Florida
- New York State
- District of Columbia
- New Jersey
- Mississippi
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Fifth Circuit; Tenth Circuit; Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi
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- L.L.M, New York University School of Law, 1986
- J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law, 1985 (Law Review, Editorial Board member, and Notes & Comments Editor; Tax Moot Court Competition: 1st place team overall, and best brief award)
- B.S., Duke University, 1981
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- Member, American Bar Association; Litigation Section; Class and Derivative Actions Committee; Corporate Counsel Committee; Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS)
- Member, Miami-Dade County Bar Association: Federal Court Committee
- Co-chair, Legal Committee, USA Triathlon
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| | | Markham R. Leventhal
PartnerFlorida, Washington, D.C. Email: ml@jordenusa.com
Phone: 305.347.6905
Fax: 305.372.9928 Markham R. Leventhal is a litigation partner at Jorden Burt LLP with a national practice focusing on the defense of financial institutions and business interests in complex federal and state litigation. Mr. Leventhal is frequently called upon to defend national and state class actions and other high exposure cases involving allegations of fraud, inadequate disclosure, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, deceptive trade practices, false advertising, violations of RICO, TILA, ERISA, antitrust statutes, regulatory statutes, and state consumer protection laws. His litigation experience extends to securities litigation, unfair competition, intellectual property issues, infringement actions, arbitration, and federal and state court appeals.
Mr. Leventhal has litigated in federal and state courts across the United States, and has defended over 150 class actions. He has served as lead or national coordinating counsel in jurisdictions including New York, New Jersey, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Texas and other states. He is a specialist in civil procedure and legal strategy and has special expertise managing complex and high risk litigation in "trouble spot" jurisdictions, including punitive damage and bad faith lawsuits in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, and other venues.
Mr. Leventhal is a veteran appellate practitioner known for his legal writing and technical skills. He has served as lead counsel in appellate matters before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth, Fifth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, and state appellate courts throughout the country. Mr. Leventhal is the chair of the firm's National Trial practice team. Speeches and Publications
- Speaker: "Developments in Life Insurance Class Action Litigation," National Alliance of Life Companies, Spring Conference, Rancho Mirage, CA (April 2005)
- Speaker: "Emerging Trends in Class Actions, Bad Faith and Market Conduct Examination," ABA Mid-Winter Meeting, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Phoenix, AZ ( January 2005)
- Speaker: "Class Actions: Developments in Life Insurance And Annuity Litigation," ALI-ABA Conference on Life Insurance Company Products (November 2002)
- Speaker: "Litigation Technology in the Courtroom," ALI-ABA Conference on Life and Health Insurance Litigation (May 2000)
- Author: "Class Actions: Fundamentals of Certification Analysis," in Florida Bar Journal (May 1998)
- Contributing author: Chapter 2, "Preemption," in the HANDBOOK ON ERISA LITIGATION (Aspen Law & Business)
- Author: "Civil Conspiracy and Aiding-Abetting: Discussing the Structure of the Theories and Related Principles of Legal Causation," 14 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 627 (1984)
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