Jeffrey Gurrola

Jeffrey B. Gurrola specializes in business trial litigation in the entertainment, sports, and media industries. His practice is diversified and widespread, involving matters across a variety of subjects in both state and federal court, with particular emphasis on entertainment matters.

Experience:

• Defending a major live entertainment company at the high-profile trial of a multi-billion-dollar wrongful death action, resulting in what the Daily Journal selected as one of the “Top Defense Verdicts of 2013”
• Representing a major sports promotion company and world-famous athlete in a number of matters ranging from contract negotiation to intellectual property disputes
• Defending popular Los Angeles radio personality in high-stakes employment contract dispute
• Representing leading U.S. homebuilder in an ongoing multimillion-dollar land acquisition contract dispute
• Defending a long-running, nationally-televised game show in an employment dispute
• Representing worldwide casualty insurance company in multimillion-dollar indemnity dispute related to over a century of oil industry operations, resulting in a highly favorable settlement
• Representing national civil rights and voting rights groups pro bono in a successful Tenth Circuit appeal challenging restrictive voter registration laws in Kansas and Arizona

Admissions:

• California

Education:

• Yale Law School, J.D.: Managing Editor, Yale Law & Policy Review; Activism Chair, OutLaws LGBT Student Group; Finalist, Barrister’s Union Trial Advocacy Tournament
• University of Southern California, B.A.,Political Science and Interdisciplinary Studies: magna cum laude; Trustee Scholar; Order of the Torch; Phi Beta Kappa