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John G. Levi

Partner
Chicago 
312.853.7701
312.853.7036 Fax

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JOHN G. LEVI is a partner in Sidley’s Chicago office. He represents major professional and financial services firms, national and multi-national corporations, as well as a host of medium-sized and smaller corporations in employment and labor matters before numerous federal and state courts, government agencies and arbitration forums. He regularly litigates claims regarding wrongful termination, fair employment issues, restrictive covenants, wage and hour, and other employment related matters in these various forums. In addition, he advises clients on their internal policies and governance. He handles negotiations with labor unions for unionized employers, and also handles arbitrations over discharges, suspensions and other grievances that arise under collective bargaining agreements. Mr. Levi also handles wage and hour disputes and other issues before the U.S. and Illinois Departments of Labor. He has counseled numerous clients regarding their employment policy handbooks and manuals. He prepares and negotiates executive employment agreements and post-employment covenants. He assists major employers in enforcing non-competition clauses that apply to executives or key employees who are attempting to depart with confidential information and major customers or lines of business. He has spoken at a number of employment law conferences and is the author of “Legal Issues Regarding AIDS in the Workplace” in the January 1988 issue of Commerce magazine. 

Mr. Levi chairs Sidley’s Law School Recruiting and leads the firm’s Committee overseeing the Kanoon Magnet School, Chicago Public School. He was appointed by President Obama to the eleven member Board of the Legal Services Corporation and was confirmed by the Senate and elected as Chairman of the Legal Services Board of Directors on April 7, 2010. He is a recipient of the Harvard Law School Society of Illinois’ 2010 Role Model Award, the 2004 Abraham Lincoln Marovita “Lend A Hand” volunteer award and was given an Honorary Diploma by the Francis W. Parker School in 2003. Mr. Levi is named in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law.


Memberships & Affiliations
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Legal Services Corporation
  • Chairman of the Campaign and immediate past president of the Board of Trustees of the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago
  • Past President and member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Child Care Society
  • Secretary of the Board of the Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation
  • Member of the Cook County Citizen's Committee for the Juvenile Courts
  • Advisory Board of Northwestern University Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions  
  • American Bar Association
  • Illinois Bar Association
  • Chicago Bar Association
  • Visiting Committee for the University of Chicago Law School
  • Treasurer of the Board of the High Jump Program
  • Trustee of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis

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