Jennifer Bracht is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  She practices with the firm’s Litigation Department.

Ms. Bracht has a wide range of experience in several areas of law implicating different industries, legal issues, and factual scenarios.  Her specialty is being able to dive into any case and make a meaningful impact in whatever stage the case is in, particularly with respect to complex discovery, pre-trial, and trial.  She has played a leading role in all stages of litigation and has been a key team member in multiple trials and final hearings.

Recent representative matters include:

• Represented leading technology company in high-profile antitrust lawsuit that went to a bench trial in the Northern District of California in 2021 only nine months after filing.  Lead member of discovery team that handled complex e-discovery issues and key member of trial team, including second-chairing witness exams.  Currently representing the company in a related class action pending in California state court and another lawsuit alleging various state court claims, including false advertising and unfair competition.
• Represents aerospace company in various class action lawsuits alleging negligence in connection with the 2018 Woolsey Fire.  Lead associate on defensive discovery efforts, including all responses, document productions, and meet and confers, and managing multiple expert workstreams.
• Represents health insurer in arbitration where provider alleges underpayment of claims.  Lead counsel for day-to-day case management and overall case strategy.
• Represents leading e-commerce company in a class action wage and hour lawsuit in California.
• Represents law firm against claims that it aided and abetted an accounting firm’s use of illegal tax shelters for its clients over two decades ago.  Involved in drafting a motion for summary judgment that was granted in one matter and motions to dismiss that were granted in two others.  All decisions are currently on appeal.
• Represented technology company in responding to various European Commission antitrust investigations.
• Represented software company in two-week arbitration in 2019 regarding contract dispute, including second-chairing witness exams, working with experts, and developing opening statement and closing argument.
• Represented utility company in disputes with two transit agencies regarding payment for relocation of utility pipelines due to transportation projects.  Analyzed complex factual issues regarding property ownership and heavily involved in drafting various briefs at both the trial court level and on appeal.  In one matter, the California Supreme Court recently denied the transit agency’s request for certiorari, resulting in a full win for the utility company.
• Represented health insurer against claims for breach of contract, fraud, insurance bad faith, and RICO in the Central District of California, including drafting a motion to dismiss that was granted in full.
• Represented telecommunications company in lawsuit alleging various causes of action related to alleged theft of cryptocurrency, including drafting motion to dismiss.
• Represented commercial trucking company in wrongful death lawsuit in New Mexico state court in 2017.  Led discovery efforts, including defending depositions of individual and corporate witnesses and managing all aspects of written discovery and document productions.
• Represented telecommunications company in breach-of-contract lawsuit involving carriage of independent networks on television.
• Represented health insurer in a four-week jury trial in California state court in 2016, resulting in the jury awarding the insurer $37.4 million against a group of 10 defendants—individuals and surgery centers—who had conspired to create and run a sophisticated insurance fraud scheme.
• Represented technology company in various contract disputes with licensors.  Drafted various dispositive motions, including oppositions to anti-SLAPP motions and demurrers.

Ms. Bracht also maintains an active pro bono practice, including the following matters:

• Traveled to Kenya with Lawyers Without Borders to train 120 Kenyan advocates and judges on the best ways to successfully bring to trial claims under Kenya’s Wildlife Conservation and Management Act.  Recipient of the firm’s “Most Inspiring Pro Bono Project” award in 2015.
• Represented non-profit preschool for children with disabilities against claims of employment discrimination.
• Represents two minors from El Salvador in removal proceedings, including appearances in state court where two different judges issued orders making Special Immigrant Juvenile Status findings.

Ms. Bracht received her law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif.  While in law school, Ms. Bracht was an articles editor for the UCLA Entertainment Law Review, a writing advisor in the Lawyering Skills program, and a 2L Representative of the Student Bar Association.  She also served as an extern for Presiding Justice Dennis Perluss of Division Seven of the Second District of the California Court of Appeal.  Ms. Bracht graduated cum laude in 2008 from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and Management.

Ms. Bracht is admitted to practice law in the State of California, the Central and Northern Districts of California, and the State of Colorado.