​Jefferson E. Bell is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Mr. Bell has experience in a wide variety of complex litigation matters.  Representative matters include defending a global financial services firm in mortgage-backed securities litigations in federal court, multiple corporate governance matters before the Delaware Court of Chancery and representing a leading beverages company as claimant in a multi-billion dollar international arbitration.

Mr. Bell has been consistently named in the Super Lawyers New York Metro “Rising Stars” list in the area of litigation since 2014.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Bell was an associate in the Litigation Department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York.

Mr. Bell received his Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2006.  At Harvard Law School, Mr. Bell was an articles editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.  Prior to law school, Mr. Bell was a business strategy consultant for American Express in New York.  Mr. Bell graduated from Harvard College in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering.

Mr. Bell is admitted to practice before the Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, as well as New York state courts.