Jonathan O. Levine
Recognized since 2007
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Employment Law - Management
Labor Law - Management
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Jon Levine has a national practice focusing on representing employers in all areas of labor-management relations, including litigation before the National Labor Relations Board and in state and federal courts. He also has significant experience with:
- The National Labor Relations Act
- Union organizing campaigns
- Collective bargaining
- Labor arbitration
- Title VII
- The Americans with Disabilities Act
- The Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- The Wisconsin Fair Employment Act
- Retail
- Warehouse-distribution
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Media
- Trade associations
Jon’s notable successes include Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce v. Doyle, Case No, 10-C-0760 (E.D. Wis. 2010) in which the court struck down a provision of the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act prohibiting employers from conducting mandatory meetings with employees to discuss issues related to union organizing. He also handled Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce v. Milwaukee County, 431 F.3d 277 (7th Cir. 2005) in which the court struck down the Milwaukee Labor Peace Ordinance, a law that limited the rights of employers to oppose efforts of unions to organize their employees.
Additionally, Jon counsels clients on best business and employee relations practices, complex business transactions and the related issues arising from mergers, acquisitions, and workforce reductions, and other types of business restructuring. Jon's clients include companies in the following industries:
Jon is the founding member and the office-managing shareholder of Littler Mendelson's Milwaukee office. Prior to working at Littler, Jon was a shareholder at another firm where he was head of their labor and employment group. In law school, he was a note and comment editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.
- Lawyer Page: https://www.littler.com/people/jonathan-o-levine
- 111 East Kilbourn Avenue
Suite 1000
Milwaukee, WI 53202
- Georgetown University, J.D., graduated 1988
- Wisconsin, State Bar of Wisconsin
- American Bar Association - Member
250 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
197 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
- Litigation - Labor and Employment, Milwaukee (2022)
- Employment Law - Management
- Labor Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Class Actions
- COVID-19
- Discrimination
- Harassment
- Health Care
- Management
- National Labor Relations Board
- Title VII Litigation
- Named, Top 100 Labor Attorneys in the United States - Labor Relations Institute, Inc., 2006
- Named, Super Lawyer - Wisconsin, 2005-2011
- Named, America's Leading Lawyers for Business - Chambers USA, 2006-2013
- Awarded, Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rating
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