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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001567619-20-020457
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20201127
FILED AS OF DATE:		20201201
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20201201

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Haas Bradley J.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001791584

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-06631
		FILM NUMBER:		201361293

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O ARGONAUT SECURITIES COMPANY
		STREET 2:		1155 BATTERY STREET
		CITY:			SAN FRANCISCO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94111

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			LEVI STRAUSS & CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000094845
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	APPAREL & OTHER FINISHED PRODS OF FABRICS & SIMILAR MATERIAL [2300]
		IRS NUMBER:				940905160
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1125

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1155 BATTERY ST
		CITY:			SAN FRANCISCO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94111
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4155016000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1155 BATTERY STREET
		CITY:			SAN FRANCISCO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94111
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        <footnote id="F4">The reported price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $19.00 to $19.74 per share. Mr. Haas undertakes to provide to the Issuer, any security holder of the Issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within this range.</footnote>
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    <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">The<font style="color: #000000;"> undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints each of Parker B. Phillips, Minna B. Baughman, Patrick R. McCabe, Ellyn Roberts and Shartsis Friese LLP, each
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="color: #000000;">A.</font> &#160; <font style="color: #000000;">prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms ID, Schedules 13D and 13G, and Forms 3, 4 and 5 (including any
        amendments thereto and any related documents) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any national securities exchanges relating to securities of Levi Strauss &amp; Co. (&#8220;LS&amp;Co.&#8221;), as considered necessary or advisable
        under Regulation S-T and Sections 13(d) and 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations thereunder, as amended from time to time (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;); and</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="color: #000000;">B.</font>&#160; <font style="color: #000000;">seek or obtain, as the undersigned&#8217;s representative and on the undersigned&#8217;s behalf, information on transactions in the
        securities of LS&amp;Co. from any person, including brokers and transfer agents, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to any such attorney-in-fact and approves and ratifies any such release of
        information; and</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="color: #000000;">C.</font>&#160;&#160; <font style="color: #000000;">perform any and all other acts that in the discretion of such attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of
        the undersigned in connection with the foregoing.</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: #000000;">The undersigned acknowledges that:</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="color: #000000;">1.</font>&#160;&#160;&#160; <font style="color: #000000;">this Limited Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, each such attorney-in-fact to act in his or her discretion
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="color: #000000;">2.</font>&#160;&#160; <font style="color: #000000;">any documents prepared and/or executed by any such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Limited
        Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in his or her discretion, deems necessary or desirable;</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="color: #000000;">3.</font>&#160;&#160; <font style="color: #000000;">none of such attorneys-in-fact assumes (a) any liability for the undersigned&#8217;s responsibility to comply with Exchange Act
        requirements or the requirements of any other laws, (b) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (c) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the
        Exchange Act; and</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><font style="color: #000000;">4.</font>&#160;&#160; <font style="color: #000000;">this Limited Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned&#8217;s
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: #000000;">The undersigned hereby gives and grants each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary
      or appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if present, hereby ratifying all that each such attorney-in-fact of, for and on behalf of the undersigned, shall
      lawfully do or cause to be done under this Limited Power of Attorney.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: #000000;">This Limited Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each such attorney-in-fact.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: #000000;">The undersigned has executed this Limited Power of Attorney as of August 28, 2019.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">/s/ Bradley J. Haas</div>
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