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Bill Levit is a principal of Levit ADR LLC. Previously he was the senior member of Godfrey & Kahn's Litigation Practice Group located in its Milwaukee office. His practice was quite diverse with substantial experience in all kinds of complex litigation including antitrust, securities, distributor relations, franchising, licensing, unfair competition, insurance insolvency, insurance regulation, and coverage disputes, professional liability, intellectual property, shareholder disputes, corporate governance counseling, Native American Law, and ADR. He formerly chaired the Firm's Litigation Practice Group, was a member of the Firm's Board of Directors, served for twenty-five years as the Firm's Loss Prevention Partner and Claims Counsel and chaired its International Practice Group.

Before joining Godfrey & Kahn, he was General Counsel of a Fortune 250 multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Milwaukee, a Litigation Partner in the Los Angeles office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, a Davis Polk & Wardwell Associate and a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. 

Bill has prosecuted and defended corporate and commercial cases in Federal and state courts around the United States, in tribal courts and before a wide variety of domestic and international arbitral tribunals. He has acted as counsel in international arbitrations in The Hague, Paris, London, Toronto, Zurich, Vienna and New York City.

For over 35 years, Bill has served as sole, chair, emergency or panel arbitrator in well over 100 commercial, corporate, intellectual property, licensing, franchising, professional liability, insurance, reinsurance, antitrust and securities arbitrations under the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, American Arbitration Association, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, ICC, New York Stock Exchange, NASD and various other international and ad hoc rules including UNCITRAL. He serves as a General Panelist as well as a member of the CPR's Franchise, General Counsel, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Challenge, Special Arbitrator and Insurance Panels. He is on FedArb's Panel of Commercial Neutrals. In addition, he is on the Commercial; Large, Complex Case; M&A; Joint Venture; Consumer; Employment; International and Mediation Panels of the American Arbitration Association. From 1984 to 1988 Bill was a Substitute Arbitrator on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague. He is a Fellow of and Chartered Arbitrator for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London) and a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. 

Listed in current edition of The Best Lawyers in America (Arbitration, International Arbitration, Mediation, Commerical Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation and through 2014 in Chambers and Partners Directory of America's Leading Lawyers for Business (most recently as Senior Statesman - Commercial Litigation).