Mr. Pete J. Levitas

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Pete Levitas joined Dickstein Shapiro LLP in 2007 as counsel in the State Attorneys General Practice.Mr. Levitas has more than 15 years of experience working in the federal government, including as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy & Consumer Rights and as Trial Attorney for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.He also was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Section of the U.S. Attorney's office.

Pete Levitas joined Dickstein Shapiro LLP in 2007 as counsel in the State Attorneys General Practice.Mr. Levitas has more than 15 years of experience working in the federal government, including as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy & Consumer Rights and as Trial Attorney for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.He also was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Section of the U.S. Attorney's office.

AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

Mr. Levitas focuses his practice on a full range of State Attorneys General matters, antitrust policy, litigation and regulatory work, and congressional matters with a policy and antitrust emphasis.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

From 1999 to 2006, Mr. Levitas served the U. S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy & Consumer Rights, where he was Staff Director and Chief Counsel for Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Mike DeWine (R-Ohio).In this capacity, Mr. Levitas was responsible for developing the Subcommittee's legislative and oversight agendas and directing work for Chairman DeWine on the entire range of issues within the Judiciary Committee's jurisdiction, including homeland security, immigration, antitrust, intellectual property, tort reform, criminal justice, constitutional issues, and judicial nominations.He also developed and managed Subcommittee hearings focused on domestic and international antitrust enforcement, as well as on competition issues in numerous industries, including telecommunications, domestic and international aviation, cable and satellite services, defense, energy, professional and collegiate sports, healthcare, and agriculture.He also worked with the full Judiciary Committee on numerous other antitrust issues, including hearings examining the Microsoft case.Additionally, Mr. Levitas has Top Secret security clearance and worked on intelligence issues for Senator DeWine.
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From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Levitas was a trial attorney for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.In this position, he investigated and prosecuted criminal and civil violations of federal antitrust statutes.Most notably, he was a member of the trial team for successful criminal prosecutions of price-fixing after a multiyear investigation of the metal container industry in United States v. Lima (D.N.J. 1995), United States v. Milikowsky (D. Conn. 1994), and United States v. Gaev (E.D. Pa. 1993).In addition, he was co-lead counsel on a related perjury case targeting an industry executive, which was settled days before trial in U.S. v. Bey (N.D. Illinois 1998) He also conducted and participated in investigations involving potential violations of the Clayton and Sherman Acts in merger and civil non-merger matters, and reviewed and analyzed Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger applications in a range of industries.

Mr. Levitas was detailed from the Antitrust Division for five months spanning 1994 to 1995, to serve as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Section of the U.S. Attorney's office.In this capacity, he prosecuted a handgun possession jury trial and numerous bench and magistrate trials.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. Levitas is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.
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Mr. Levitas received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the Dean's List and a member of Phi Beta Kappa (1988).He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1991).