Jeffrey H. Reeves is Partner-in-Charge of the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  He is a member of the firm's Litigation; Securities; Media, Entertainment and Technology; and Class Action and Complex Litigation Practice Groups, handling complex commercial business disputes. 

Hailing from Houston, Texas, he earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Texas A&M University in 1988.  Thereafter, he attended the University of Houston Law Center where he served as Research Editor for the Houston Law Review and graduated cum laude in 1991.

Since joining Gibson Dunn in 1991, Mr. Reeves has handled various types of business litigation cases and has tried cases in federal and state courts and in ADR settings.  He defends companies in class action cases, including consumer and securities fraud class actions.  He also handles complex contract, fraud, business tort, unfair competition, theft of trade secret, entertainment litigation and intellectual property matters.  Mr. Reeves recently represented Grateful Dead Productions and a number of other rock and roll music icons as plaintiffs in federal court litigation asserting claims regarding alleged unauthorized exploitation of artists’ rights of publicity and other intellectual property rights.  Mr. Reeves was named to Southern California Rising Stars in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and was recently named to Southern California Super Lawyers in 2009 and 2010 by Super Lawyers Magazine.

Mr. Reeves is active in many professional organizations.  He was recently appointed as one of twelve incoming Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.  He is a member of the Board of the Orange County Business Council.  He is past President of the Federal Bar Association of  Orange County and is serving a three-year term on the Federal Bar Association's national Government Relations Committee in Washington, D.C.  He is a member of the Orange County Bar Association Investment Subadvisory Committee and is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Orange County Chapter.  Mr. Reeves also serves on the firm's Diversity Committee.

Mr. Reeves also makes community involvement a priority.  He is a member of United Way's Tocqueville Society, serves on the Board of the Discovery Science Center, is President Emeritus of the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange County and secretary to the Board of the Orange County Youth Sports Foundation.  He loves golf and sits on the Board of El Niguel Country Club in Laguna Niguel.

Representative Cases

• Eastwood Insurance Services, Inc. v. Titan Insurance Services, et al.  Representing plaintiff in federal court breach of contract and fraud action against purchaser of substantially all of the client’s assets in dispute over earn-out clause of purchase agreement.
• Grateful Dead Productions, Carlos Santana, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Raymond Manzarek, Robby Kreiger, John Densmore, et al. v. William E. Sagan, et al.   Represented plaintiff rock and roll industry artists in district court litigation under Lanham Act, Copyright Act, Anti-Bootlegging Act, asserting various intellectual property claims and claims related to artists' rights of publicity. 
• OnCure Medical Corp v. Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center.  Defended Mission Hospital against claims from tenant seeking to enjoin construction of new multi-million dollar medical tower in South Orange County designed to house state-of-the-art linear accelerator, and bringing counter-claims for breaches of lease.
• Callison Architecture, Inc. v. Anaheim GW, LLC.  Representing developers of Anaheim GardenWalk mall near Disneyland in a dispute with architect alleging nonpayment and asserting numerous claims against the architect for negligence.
• Richard Kralick v. Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  Defended company in state court securities fraud litigation brought, and eventually dismissed, by a former shareholder.
• Judy and Russell Williams, et al. v. Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center; St. Joseph Health System, et al.  Represented Hospital and System in defending putative class action alleging duty to warn patients of the potential for independent contractor physicians to engage in practice of balance billing, and a breach of that duty if one exists.
• Simon v. Ashworth, Inc.  Defended company in consumer class action pending in the Central District of California alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s (FCRA) credit card receipt truncation requirements imposed by the enactment of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act.  Successfully opposed class certification. 
• Cedar Fair v. Minntertainment Company arbitration.  Represented Cedar Fair in five-day trial against Respondent entities that control the Mall of America, after Respondents issued a termination notice purporting to terminate Cedar Fair as Manager of Camp Snoopy at the Mall without cause.  The judge ruled in Cedar Fair's favor, declaring it to be the prevailing party and awarding Cedar Fair a multi-million dollar termination fee, plus attorneys' fees and costs.  Successfully defended award in appellate proceedings before both the Minnesota Court of Appeal and the Minnesota Supreme Court, resulting in an Order awarding 100 percent of the requested attorneys' fees as prevailing party below and on appeal.
• Confidential plaintiff v. California pharmaceutical company.  Tried civil contempt case to verdict against former CEO of pharmaceutical company client, obtaining an award of the maximum fine permissible under the California statute in Superior Court in San Diego.  The Court found the former CEO guilty on all 58 counts of contempt that were charged; not only was the maximum permissible fine imposed, but the Court also issued an order finding that all $1.3 million in attorneys' fees incurred by the Company in prosecuting the action were reasonable, and requiring the former CEO to pay those fees.
• Brokovich v. St. Joseph Health Systems.  Part of successful effort to dismiss a highly-publicized lawsuit filed by activist Erin Brokovich against St. Joseph Health System alleging that St. Joseph had over billed Medicare.  District Judge David Carter granted the defendant's motion to dismiss, saying Brokovich lacked standing to file the case.
• HGK, et al. v. Williams Companies, Inc.  Defended company in federal securities class action involving claims brought under the Exchange Act and Securities Act alleging failure to disclose true nature of contingent liabilities. 
• Pacific Life Insurance Company v. Allianz of America.  Successfully represented PacLife in $30 million arbitration proceeding in New York against Allianz arising out of disputed put/call provision in contract regarding sale of PIMCO.  Prevailed in Phase I of the arbitration, and the matter settled before Phase II was tried.
• ProShot v. Optimal Recreation Solutions.  Represented holder/licensor of GPS patent in multi-day arbitration proceeding.  Arbitrator found client's termination of exclusive license to be valid and found client to be prevailing party.
• Sunhaven v. Harry H. Arzouman.  Tried common law securities fraud jury trial before Hon. Alicemarie Stotler in Central District of California.  Obtained verdict, judgment and punitive damages.
• Ingram Micro v. BigStore.com.  Successfully defended Ingram Micro Inc. in antitrust and B&P Section 17200 litigation asserted by Chapter 11 debtor, The BigStore.com, in O.C. Bankruptcy Court.  Mr. Reeves was also successful in defeating claims brought against Ingram Micro in O.C. Superior Court by two of The Bigstore.com's founders seeking more than $30 million in damages, instead securing multi-million dollar judgments against those founders.

Representative Clients

• Allergan, Inc.
• Anacomp, Inc.
• Avanir Pharmaceuticals
• Epicor Software, Inc.
• Excel Realty Holdings
• Frank Sinatra Enterprises
• I-Flow Corporation
• In-N-Out Burger
• Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center
• PacLife Insurance Co.
• St. Joseph Health Systems