Julian, Jessica L.

Jeff Jones has represented clients in class actions, multijurisdictional matters, and complex litigation in over 30 states throughout the country. He has served as national or regional coordinating counsel involving products claims, dealer litigation, securities claims, and commercial disputes filed against many of Jones Day's clients, including R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Reynolds), Overhead Door Corporation (Overhead Door), and General Motors Corporation (GM), among others.

Jeff has represented Reynolds in complex products litigation filed by individual plaintiffs, third-party payers, and governmental entities, including Ironworkers, et al. v. Philip Morris, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:97CV 1422, a class action in which plaintiffs sought over $2 billion, which culminated in a defense verdict after a lengthy jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Jeff was lead trial counsel in Andy Buick, et al., v. GM, et al., a case in which the plaintiffs sought $13 million in compensatory damages and $320 million in punitive damages. At the conclusion of the trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of GM.

Jeff has represented clients of the Firm in multiple class actions, including Lowe's, Reynolds, Toyota, and GM. He has tried cases to courts, juries, arbitration panels, administrative law judges, and administrative boards in different jurisdictions and forums throughout the country and handled appellate proceedings through every level of state and federal courts. Jeff also served as one of the lead trial lawyers for Overhead Door in a multidistrict litigation proceeding for nearly two years before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, involving approximately 90 lawsuits nationwide.

Jeff has represented many other manufacturers in complex litigation arising out of wrongful death claims, explosions, construction claims, accidents, building fires, contract disputes, securities fraud, and commercial litigation, including, among others, Scott Fetzer Company, Xerox Corporation, Nissan Motor Company, Bosch Corporation, and SCM Corporation. He has taken or defended hundreds of depositions of experts or other witnesses working in the fields of accounting, marketing, statistics, disease causation, medical sciences, cigarette design, epidemiology, toxicology, fire modeling, fire origin, accident reconstruction, automotive design, warnings, mechanical engineering, biomechanics, air bags, and human factors.

He also has substantial litigation experience defending clients against products claims, dealership disputes, commercial litigation, contract disputes, antitrust claims, RICO allegations, and deceptive trade practice claims.

Jeff is a graduate of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and was a member of the American Inns of Court, where he made written and oral presentations on trial issues, including the preservation of evidence, excluding expert witnesses, and ethical considerations. He has also prepared CLE materials and articles on different litigation topics, including on "Proving Causation in Toxic Tort Litigation" and "Defending Punitive Damage Claims."