Jeremy S. Smith is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He currently practices in the firm’s Privacy, Appellate and Constitutional Law, Litigation, Class Actions, and False Claims Act/Qui Tam Defense Practice Groups.

Mr. Smith has represented clients in a wide range of appellate matters in both state and federal courts, including appeals involving class certification, privacy, professional liability, and legal ethics.  He has also defended clients in class actions across numerous substantive areas of law, including privacy, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), consumer fraud, and insurance law.  Finally, Mr. Smith has substantial experience with the federal and state False Claims Acts, in both trial and appellate courts.

Recent representative matters include:

• Representing a major technology company in multidistrict litigation arising out of multiple data breaches.
• Obtaining decertification of a class action with over 320 thousand class members brought against a major technology company under the TCPA.
• Obtaining affirmance from the California Court of Appeal of a summary judgment ruling in favor of a construction company against allegations brought under the California False Claims Act.
• Obtaining affirmance from the Ninth Circuit of a summary judgment ruling in favor of a for-profit educational institution against False Claims Act allegations.
• Obtaining an order enforcing individual arbitration in a putative class action under ERISA brought against a large health plan.
• Obtaining dismissal of a False Claims Act lawsuit brought against a large telecommunications company.
• Obtaining dismissal of a putative class action brought against a health care provider for an alleged data breach involving over 30,000 patients.
• Obtaining dismissal of a False Claims Act lawsuit brought against a cosmetics company.
• Obtaining voluntary dismissal of a long-running consumer fraud class action brought against a cosmetics company.
• Obtaining a jury verdict of guilty on both counts of domestic violence, while serving as a volunteer prosecutor for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Smith served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kathleen Cardone of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.  He has also worked in the entertainment industry before law school where he wrote, directed, and produced commercials.

Mr. Smith graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif.  While attending law school, Mr. Smith taught two college law courses to staff and inmates at Auburn’s maximum security prison.  Mr. Smith also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable R. Gary Klausner of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.  In 2003, he graduated cum laude and as a Renaissance Scholar from the University of Southern California.

Mr. Smith is an active member of his community and serves on the Associates Board of Teach for America – Los Angeles.  He spends as much time as possible with his wife and two sons, and tries to hit a ski slope or a mountain bike trail as often as he can.

Mr. Smith is admitted to practice in the State of California, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, and in the United States District Courts for the Central and Northern Districts of California.