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Perlette Michèle Jura

Perlette
Jura

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CONTACT INFO

pjura@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 213.229.7121

FAX:+1 213.229.6121

Los Angeles

333 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071-3197 USA

Washington, D.C.

1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-5306 USA

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PRACTICE

Litigation Appellate and Constitutional Law Artificial Intelligence Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) International Arbitration Latin America Transnational Litigation Transportation and Space

BIOGRAPHY

Perlette  Jura  is  a  partner  in  Gibson  Dunn’s  Los  Angeles  and  Washington,  D.C.  offices.   Her  practice  focuses  on  complex  trial  and  appellate  litigation.   She  co-chairs  the  firm’s  Transnational  Litigation  Group  and  its  Environmental  Social  Governance  practice.   She  has  played  a  key  role  in  a  number  of  the  firm’s  most  high-profile  transnational,  environmental  and  technology-driven  matters.   Ms.  Jura  has  extensive  experience  working  with  the  food  and  beverage,  agricultural,  aerospace,  automotive,  emerging  technology  and  energy  industries.   The  Los  Angeles  Business  Journal  named  Ms.  Jura  to  its  list  of  “Most  Influential  Women  Lawyers”  in  Los  Angeles,  featuring  50  of  the  most  accomplished  female  attorneys  working  in  the  region.   For  the  past  four  years,  Ms.  Jura  has  been  recognized  by  Benchmark  Litigation  as  one  of  the  “Top  250  Women  in  Litigation.”   Benchmark  Litigation  has  also  featured  Ms.  Jura  as  a  California  “Litigation  Star”  for  2023.   In 2023  Lawdragon,  which  recognizes  those  who  specialize  in  international  arbitration,  public  international  law  and  advise  leading  corporations  recognized  Ms.  Jura  as  one  of  the  “500  Leading  Litigators  in  America”  and  recognized  her  as  a  member  of  Lawdradon  Green  500:  Leaders  in  Environmental  Law.   BTI  Consulting  Group  also  honored  Ms.  Jura  a  Client  Service  All-Star,  an  attorney  “who  stand[s]  above  all  the  others  in  delivering  the  absolute  best  in  client  service.”

Complex  and  Transnational  Litigation:   As  a  co-chair  of  the  firm’s  Transnational  Litigation  Group,  Ms.  Jura  has  extensive  experience  litigating  and  counseling  on  multidistrict  and  cross-border  matters,  including  several  mass  and  class  action  suits.   She  has  been  recognized  by  Legal  500  as  one  of  the  top  ten  leading  transnational  litigation  lawyers  in  the  country  and  was  placed  in  their  hall  of  fame  in  2022.   Ms.  Jura  has  played  a  critical  role  as  a  master  strategist  and  team  leader  in  several  high-profile  U.S.  matters  and  transnational  trials  and  appeals.   She  is  regularly  relied  upon  by  clients  to  help  them  develop  comprehensive  global  strategies  and  has  advised  on  matters  implicating  the  competing  laws  of  multiple  U.S.  jurisdictions  and  the  laws  of  more  than  50  countries  around  the  world.   She  also  regularly  advises  on  supply  chain  liability  risks,  corporate  separateness  and  crossborder  compliance  issues.

Environmental  Social  Governance  Practice:   Much  of  Ms.  Jura’s  cross-border  work  involves  a  wide  variety  of  domestic  and  cross-border  supply  chain,  human  rights  and  tort  disputes,  including  clients  involved  in  manufacturing,  food  and  beverage,  agriculture  and  energy.   In  addition  to  litigating  these  matters,  she  also  provides  counseling  and  advice  on  to  a  number  of  clients  on  a  wide  range  of  ESG  issues.

Emerging  Technology:   With  a  deep  understanding  of  the  global  legal  framework  governing  the  developing  body  of  law  regulating  technological  developments,  Ms.  Jura  also  has  substantial  experience  with  matters  involving  cutting  edge  technological  issues.   She  co-founded  the  firm’s  Aerospace  and  Related  Technologies  group  and  has  worked  on  a  wide  range  of  technology-driven  litigation  for  companies  such  as  Intel,  Yahoo,  Verizon,  Infor,  WhatsApp,  Uber  and  Facebook,  among  others.

Community  and  Firm  Involvement.   In  addition  to  serving  as  a  practice  group  leader,  Ms.  Jura  is  the  firmwide  hiring  chair.  She  also  sits  on  the  firm’s  diversity  committee.

Ms.  Jura  serves  on  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  California  Science  Center  Foundation.   She  is  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Council  on  International  Policy,  which  is  dedicated  to  addressing  the  world’s  transforming  global  community  and  giving  the  West  Coast  a  more  effective  voice  in  global  development.   Ms.  Jura  has  also  served  on  the  Board  of  Directors  for  the  Women  Lawyers  Association  of  Los  Angeles,  where  she  is  a  lifetime  member.   She  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  Women  of  Stanford  Law  and  the  Diversity  Law  Institute.

Ms.  Jura  also  dedicates  substantial  time  to  pro  bono  matters.   In  2012,  she  received  the  firm’s  annual  award  for  successfully  litigating  the  firm’s  Most  Challenging  Pro  Bono  Matter,  in  connection  with  her  work  on  Norwood  v.  Bourland,  a  complex  civil  rights  appeal.   In  2014,  she  served  as  a  Military  Commission  Observer  for  the  9/11  proceedings  in  Guantanamo  Bay,  Cuba.   Since  2015,  Ms.  Jura  has  been  partnering  with  Lawyers  Without  Borders  to  help  train  lawyers  and  magistrates  in  Africa  to  help  combat  wildlife  poaching.

Some  of  Ms.  Jura’s  most  recent  non-confidential  matters  include:

  • Doe v. Meta  Platforms,  Inc.  (N.D.  Cal.)  (securing  dismissal  of  claims  against  Meta  filed  on  behalf  of  Rohingya  refugees  seeking  to  apply  Burmese  law  to  sidestep  Section  230  immunity).
  • Coubaly v. Cargill,  Inc.  et  al.  (D.D.C.)  (securing  dismissal  of  TVPRA  claims  against  the  cocoa  industry  arising  out  of  alleged  activity  in  Cote  d’Ivoire).
  • Doe v. Apple,  Inc.  et  al.  (D.D.C.)  (securing  dismissal  of  TVPRA  claims  against  major  tech  companies  arising  out  of  alleged  human  rights  violations  in  the  cobalt  supply  chain).
  • Ning Xianhua v. Oath  Holdings, Inc.  et  al.  (N.D.  Cal.)  (securing  dismissal  with  prejudice  of  ATS,  TVPA,  and  California  UCL  claims  arising  out  of  alleged  activity  in  the  People’s  Republic  of  China).
  • Nestlé USA, Inc.   v.  Doe,  593  US  __,  141  S.  Ct.  1931  (2021)  (dismissing  a  long-running  Alien  Tort  Statute  lawsuit  against  Nestle  USA  on  extraterritoriality  grounds)  (co-counsel).
  • Myers v. Starbucks  Co.,  (C.D.  Cal.)  (defending  against  consumer  deception  claims  challenging  statements  regarding  supplier  and  supply  chain  practices)  (motion  to  dismiss  granted  without  prejudice  in  July  2020).
  • Horti v. Nestlé  Healthcare  Nutrition,  Inc.  (N.D.  Cal.)  (securing  dismissal  with  prejudice  of  consumer  deception  claims).
  • Council for  Education  and  Research  on  Toxins v. Starbucks  Corporation  et  al.  (successfully  defeated  Proposition  65  challenge  to  coffee  industry,  including  an  order  affirming  judgment  on  appeal  and  denial  of  plaintiff’s  petition  for  certiorari).
  • Walker v. Nestlé  USA, Inc.,  No.  3:19-cv-00723  (S.D.  Cal.)  (defending  against  consumer  deception  claims  challenging  statements  regarding  supplier  and  supply  chain  practices)  (ongoing).
  • You v. Japan,  et  al.  (successfully  defending  vehicle  manufacturers  in  California  against  alien  tort  and  RICO  claims  brought  on  behalf  of  a  purported  class  of  Korean  citizens).
  • Worldwide Directories  S.A.  de  C.V.  v.  Yahoo!  Inc.  (defeating  a  $2.7  billion  cross-border  RICO  suit  filed  in  New  York  arising  out  of  alleged  activity  in  Mexico).
  • Manspeaker v. Intel  (defeating  a  series  of  lawsuits  filed  in  Delaware  and  Arizona  that  involved  complex  choice  of  law  and  toxic  tort  issues).
  • Hupan v. Alliance  One  and  related  cases  (securing  dismissal  of  over  400  toxic  tort  claims  brought  on  behalf  of  foreign  farmers).
  • Chevron Corp.  v.  Donziger  (successfully  defending  litigation  against  a  fraudulent  multibillion  dollar  Ecuadorian  judgment  arising  from  alleged  environmental  pollution  in  Ecuador).
  • Tellez v. Dole  Food  Co.  (securing  dismissal  with  prejudice  of  U.S.-filed  toxic  tort  claims  alleging  that  DBCP  caused  reproductive  harm).
  • NML Capital, Ltd.   v.  Republic  of  Argentina  (enforcing  unpaid  debts  against  the  Republic  of  Argentina).
  • Osorio v. Dole  Food  Co.  (blocking  recognition  and  enforcement  of  $97  million  toxic  tort  judgment  awarded  by  Nicaraguan  court  without  due  process  or  evidence  of  causation).

Recent  Publications  and  Presentations

  • “The  Legal  500  Country  Comparative  Guides  2022:  United  States  Enforcement  of  Judgements  in  Civil  and  Commercial  matters”  (contributing  author).
  • “Appeals 2021”  (Getting  the  Deal  Through,  May,  2021)  (contributing  author).
  • Gibson Dunn  Discusses  Mandatory  Corporate  Human  Rights  Due  Diligence,  (CLS  Blue  Sky  Blog,  March  24,  2021)  (contributing  author).
  • Enforcement of  Foreign  Judgements  2020  (Getting  the  Deal  Through,  September  2019)  (contributing  author).
  • “Appeals 2019”  (Getting  the  Deal  Through,  June,  2019)  (contributing  author).
  • Enforcement of  Foreign  Judgments  2019  (Getting  the  Deal  Through,  October,  2018)  (contributing  author).
  • One Small  Step  or  One  Giant  Leap?  FAA  Releases  Final  Rules  on  Commercial  Drone  Use  in  the  United  States  (Client  Alert,  June  27,  2016)  (contributing  author).
  • Courts Make  Doing  Good  Abroad  Bad  for  Business  At  Home  (Law360,  January  14,  2016).
  • International Aspects  of U.S.  Litigation:  Practitioner’s  Deskbook  (ABA,  2016)  (contributing  author).
  • Enforcement of  Foreign  Judgments  2015  in  29  Jurisdictions  Worldwide  (Getting  the  Deal  Through,  September,  2015)  (contributing  author).
  • Enforcing Arbitration  Awards  in  California  (Practical  Law,  2015)  (contributing  author).
  • Disparate Treatment  of  the  Corporate  Citizen:  Stark  Differences  Across  Borders  in  Transnational  Lawsuits  (Business  Law  International,  May  2014).
  • Economic Rising  Stars  in  Latin  America  (Pacific  Council  on  International  Policy,  2014  Spring  Conference).
  • Semiconductor Birth  Defect  Cases  Keep  Unraveling  In  Delaware  (Law360,  March  12,  2014).
  • Enforcement of  Foreign  Judgments  2014  in  29  Jurisdictions  Worldwide  (Getting  the  Deal  Through,  September,  2013)  (contributing  author).
  • The Outer  Limits  of  Expert  Testimony  Gatekeeping  (Law360,  March  13,  2013).
  • Successful Global  Strategies  for  Litigating  Cross-Border  Disputes  in  the  United  States  (ABA,  2012).
  • Legal Globetrotting  II:  Recognizing  &  Enforcing  Foreign  Judgments  and  Arbitral  Awards  (ABA,  Miami  2012)  (presentation  for  the  American  Bar  Association,  Section  of  International  Law).
  • Enforcing Workers’ Compensation  in  Toxic  Tort  Birth  Defects  Cases  (American  College  of  Environmental  Lawyers,  Jan. 2012).
  • Confronting the  New  Breed  of  Transnational  Litigation:  Abusive  Foreign  Judgments  (U.S.  Chamber  of  Commerce  (PLI),  2011).
  • Unconstitutional Judgments  for  Import:  Constitutional  Limitations  on  Recognition  and  Enforcement  of  Abusive  Foreign  Judgments  (Pepperdine  Law  Review,  2011).
  • Legal Globetrotting:  Recognizing  &  Enforcing  Foreign  Judgments  and  Arbitral  Awards  (ABA,  Dublin  2011)  (presented  for  the  American  Bar  Association,  Section  of  International  Law).
  • Forum Non  Conveniens  and  Foreign-Judgment  Recognition:  Different  Sides  of  Different  Coins  (Defense  Research  Institute,  2011).
  • Transnational Litigation  and  Foreign  Judgments:  Litigating  Recognition  and  Enforcement  Actions  in  the  United  States  and  Developing  a  Successful  Global  Strategy  (ABA,  2011).
  • A New  Transnational  Battleground  (presented  for  the  Los  Angeles  County  Bar  Association  in  Los  Angeles,  October  2010).

Education  &  Background.  Before  joining  the  firm,  Ms.  Jura  served  as  a  law  clerk  to  the  Honorable  Pamela  Ann  Rymer  of  the  United  States  Court  of  Appeals  for  the  Ninth  Circuit.

Ms.  Jura  graduated  Order  of  the  Coif  from  Stanford  Law  School.   She  was  an  Executive  Editor  of  Stanford  Law  Review  and  received  the  Board  of  Editors  Award.   Ms.  Jura  was  also  the  Student  Director  of  the  Stanford  Community  Law  Clinic,  and  a  graduate  advisor  and  teacher.   During  her  time  at  Stanford,  she  was  awarded  the  Public  Interest  and  Pro  Bono  Service  Award  and  a  Stanford  Law  School  Fellowship.   Ms.  Jura  graduated  summa  cum  laude  from  the  University  of  California,  Santa  Barbara,  where  she  was  the  Commencement  Speaker  at  the  Fine  Arts  &  Humanities  ceremony.

Ms.  Jura  is  a  Fellow  with  the  Litigation  Counsel  of  America.   She  is  licensed  to  practice  in  California,  the  District  of  Columbia  and  New  York.   She  is  admitted  to  appear  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  and  the  United  States  Court  of  Appeals  for  the  Second,  Fifth,  Seventh,  Ninth,  Tenth  and  Eleventh  Circuits,  in  addition  to  the  Northern,  Southern  and  Central  Districts  of  California,  the  Northern  District  of  Illinois  and  the  Southern  District  of  New  York.   She  is  a  member  of  the  International  Bar  Association,  the  American  Bar  Association’s  Transnational  Legal  Practice  Committee,  and  the  Association’s  International  Courts  Committee  and  the  International  Litigation  Committee.

EDUCATION

University of California - Santa Barbara - Bachelor of Arts

Stanford University - Juris Doctor

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

District of Columbia Bar

New York Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - March 15, 2023 | UK Antitrust Authority Releases Guidance on Sustainability Collaborations
Firm News - February 7, 2023 | Eight Gibson Dunn Attorneys Named in 2023 Lawdragon Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law
Firm News - October 4, 2022 | Lawdragon Names 38 Partners Among its 2023 500 Leading Litigators in America
Client Alert - September 12, 2022 | EU to Ban Forced Labour Products
Article - August 31, 2022 | United States: Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters
Firm News - August 5, 2022 | Twelve Gibson Dunn Partners Named Among Benchmark’s Top Women in Litigation and 40 & Under 2022
Client Alert - June 23, 2022 | Enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Begins in the United States
Firm News - June 22, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2022 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - March 21, 2022 | Update on UN Roadmap for a New Global Plastics Treaty
Client Alert - January 27, 2022 | Update on Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: Groundbreaking New York Fashion Sustainability Legislation Proposal, While EU Initiative Stalls
Firm News - August 9, 2021 | Ten Gibson Dunn Partners Named Among Benchmark Top 250 Women in Litigation 2021
Firm News - June 29, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2021 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - June 17, 2021 | Supreme Court Limits Extraterritorial Reach Of The Alien Tort Statute
Article - May 6, 2021 | Appeals 2021: United States
Webcasts - April 21, 2021 | Webcast: The Role of ESG in Capital Markets
Client Alert - April 20, 2021 | Aerospace and Related Technologies Update – Spring 2021
Client Alert - March 10, 2021 | Part Two – Mandatory Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence: What Now and What Next? An International Perspective
Firm News - February 23, 2021 | Sixteen Partners Named Among the Lawdragon Global Litigation 500
Press Releases - February 4, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Launches Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practice
Firm News - December 10, 2020 | Twelve Partners Named 2020 BTI Client Service All-Stars
Firm News - October 16, 2020 | Benchmark Litigation US 2021 Gives Top Marks to Gibson Dunn
Firm News - July 6, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2020 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - May 19, 2020 | Aerospace and Related Technologies Update – Spring 2020
Firm News - August 15, 2019 | Five Partners Named Among Top Women in Litigation
Publications - August 13, 2019 | Getting the Deal Through: Appeals 2019
Firm News - July 11, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2019 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - March 29, 2019 | Aerospace and Related Technologies Update – Spring 2019
Publications - January 28, 2019 | Enforcing Arbitration Awards in California
Article - October 31, 2018 | Getting the Deal Through: Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Client Alert - September 24, 2018 | U.S. Court of Appeals Allows Specific Personal Jurisdiction Over German Web-Services Firm With No Physical U.S. Presence
Firm News - July 10, 2018 | Benchmark Litigation Recognizes Gibson Dunn Partners
Firm News - June 18, 2018 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2018 U.S. Legal 500
Article - April 30, 2018 | Reining In Abusive Alien Tort Statute Cases
Client Alert - March 22, 2018 | Delaware Supreme Court Holds That Forum Non Conveniens Dismissals Do Not Require An Alternative Available Forum
Client Alert - March 16, 2018 | Aerospace and Related Technologies – Key Developments in 2017 and Early 2018
Article - July 1, 2017 | Getting the Deal Through: Appeals 2017
Client Alert - April 18, 2017 | 2016 Year-End Transnational Litigation Update
Client Alert - March 9, 2017 | Corporate Social Responsibility Statements – Recent Litigation and Avoiding Pitfalls
Client Alert - February 9, 2017 | 2016 Year-End Aerospace and Related Technologies Update
Client Alert - January 27, 2017 | Canadian Court Upholds Chevron’s Corporate Separateness and Its Right to Defend Against Judgment Obtained by Fraud
Article - October 25, 2016 | Extraterritoriality: The ATS In Focus
Client Alert - September 21, 2016 | 2016 Mid-Year Transnational Litigation Update
Client Alert - June 27, 2016 | One Small Step or One Giant Leap? FAA Releases Final Rules on Commercial Drone Use in the United States
Article - June 6, 2016 | Del. High Court Sets Example For Revisiting Daimler
Client Alert - February 17, 2016 | 2015 Year-End Transnational Litigation Update
Article - January 14, 2016 | Courts Make Doing Good Abroad Bad For Business At Home
Client Alert - February 27, 2015 | 2014 Year-End Transnational Litigation Update
Article - February 20, 2015 | Enforcing Arbitration Awards in California
Client Alert - November 21, 2014 | Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in 29 Jurisdictions Worldwide – US
Article - May 1, 2014 | Disparate Treatment of the Corporate Citizen: Stark Differences Across Borders in Transnational Lawsuits
Client Alert - March 12, 2014 | Semiconductor Birth Defect Cases Keep Unraveling In Del.
Client Alert - September 1, 2013 | Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in 29 Jurisdictions Worldwide
Client Alert - March 13, 2013 | The Outer Limits Of Expert Testimony Gatekeeping
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