Speaker
Jonathan Anschell
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
at
Mattel
Jonathan Anschell is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Mattel. He joined Mattel in 2021. In his role, Mr. Anschell oversees all legal responsibilities for Mattel’s operations and transactions, as well as corporate governance, securities, intellectual property, litigation, and privacy. He also is responsible for compliance and government affairs.
Prior to joining Mattel, Mr. Anschell served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for ViacomCBS Media Networks, leading the legal affairs team for all CBS entertainment and news operations, as well as the business and legal affairs teams for the ViacomCBS cable networks in the U.S. and internationally.
Before the CBS-Viacom merger in 2019, Mr. Anschell served as General Counsel of CBS Television and Deputy General Counsel and Secretary of CBS Corporation, where he was responsible for corporate governance, securities, intellectual property, employment, and real estate legal functions. Before joining CBS in 2004, he was a partner at White O’Connor Curry, a Los Angeles-based law firm specializing in commercial and entertainment-related litigation. He is also a former editor of Communications Lawyer, the American Bar Association’s journal on media and communications law.
Mr. Anschell received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Toronto, where he was an associate editor of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Media Law Resource Center and as a Director and past Chair of the Board of Public Counsel, the nation’s largest pro bono law firm.
Moderator
Jeff LeVee
Partner, Head of the litigation practice in the Los Angeles Office
at
Jones Day
As the head of the litigation practice in the Los Angeles Office, Jeff
LeVee focuses on antitrust litigation, health care litigation, and
complex business and antitrust counseling. Jeff has successfully
litigated and arbitrated matters in courts and other administrative
bodies throughout the United States. The clients he represents
include health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, retailers,
telecommunications companies, manufacturers, and technology
companies.
Jeff has successfully defended dozens of class action lawsuits. He
recently led the defense of Sutter Health, a hospital system in
Northern California, in an antitrust case alleging that Sutter
restrained competition via its contracts with insurance companies.
After a month-long jury trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in
Sutter's favor. Jeff also obtained a successful jury verdict in an
antitrust action involving a certified consumer class against Macy's,
and he successfully represented Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in
a seven-week jury trial (affirmed on appeal) in an antitrust lawsuit
involving an alleged group boycott. Jeff has defended nearly all of
the litigation and adversary proceedings brought against ICANN (the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) since Jones
Day assisted in the formation of ICANN in 1998, including a
successful Ninth Circuit decision in 2015 dismissing antitrust and
other claims against ICANN.
Jeff was an active member of the ABA Antitrust Section's leadership
between 1997 and 2018. He served twice on the Council of the
Section, and he served terms as chair of the Trial Practice, Civil
Practice & Procedure, Global Private Litigation, and Spring Meeting
Committees.
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