Kemp Jones

Number of partners:7

Number of lawyers: 15

Languages: English, Farsi, Swedish

Tel: (702) 385-6000

Overview:

Kemp Jones is a litigation firm of respected and trusted trial lawyers dedicated to providing the highest quality of professional legal services. Its litigators have skillfully prosecuted and defended claims on behalf of prominent local, state, national, and international businesses and high-net-worth individuals in some of the most complex and noteworthy commercial actions brought in Nevada. The firm is also renowned for its successes on behalf of its clients in other various litigation matters, described more fully below. Kemp Jones’s diverse representation gives it the competitive advantage every client seeks in a litigation firm. Since its formation in 1993, Kemp Jones has recovered more than a billion dollars in verdicts and settlements for its clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

Cannabis Law:

■ Handle various litigation and regulatory matters for clients in the cannabis industry, including obtaining highly-sought adult use dispensary licenses for cannabis company clients through settlement in the case dubbed by the local news as “World War Weed” – In Re: DOT Litigation (Case No. A-19-787004-B).

Contact:Nathanael R. Rulis

Email: [email protected]

Catastrophic Personal Injury, Mass Tort, & Products Liability:

■ Member of the plaintiffs’ committee responsible for $7 billion in settlements for hundreds of thousands of FenPhen users

■ $524 million jury verdict against Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services for patients who contracted Hepatitis C at Endoscopy Center plus $505 million jury verdict against drug companies for Endoscopy Center patients contracting Hepatitis C

■ Instrumental in obtaining $200+ billion recovery in the tobacco litigation

■ $48 million in settlements for San Juan Dupont Plaza fire litigation clients

■ Over $18 million jury verdict in products liability/failure to warn case involving a motorcoach

■ $18 million in settlements for Peach Tree Plaza fire litigation plaintiffs

■ Over $3 million jury verdict for both compensatory and punitive damages in a personal injury action

Contact: Will Kemp or Eric M. Pepperman

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Class Actions & Construction Defect:

■ Nearly $500 million in class action settlements and jury verdicts for homeowners with defective plumbing systems involving four different plumbing manufacturers, 250,000 Nevada homeowners, and three million non-Nevada homeowners

■ More than $50 million in class action settlements for approximately 60,000 Nevada homeowners with air conditioning units containing an allegedly defective component

■ $32 million settlement against Humana for 84,000 Nevada insureds in health care fraud class action after unanimous decision in US Supreme Court, Humana Inc. v. Forsyth, 525 US 299 (1999)

■ $20 million in settlements for construction defects in single Las Vegas condominium development

■ More than $10 million in settlements for single penthouse condominium owner against contractors responsible for poorly executed renovation work

■ Nearly $2 million in class action settlement for more than 10,000 Nevada payday loan customers

Contact: J. Randall Jones or Michael J. Gayan

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Eminent Domain/Condemnation:

■ $11.5 million judgment in an inverse condemnation action against Nevada Power Company

■ $4.25 million judgment in an inverse condemnation action against the City of North Las Vegas

Contact: J. Randall Jones or Mona Kaveh

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

General Civil and Commercial Litigation

■ $50 million in recovery for medical device company shareholders in director-fraud action brought by corporate receiver

■ $19 million jury verdict and judgment for small business owner against multi-national hotel chain for breach of contract

■ $7.2 million jury verdict in partnership fraud and embezzlement case

■ $6 million jury verdict in trespass action, including $4 million in punitive damages

■ Nearly $4 million jury verdict in violation of equal protection clause case

■ Obtained judgment in favor of defense in $40 million breach of contract action via unanimous decision in Nevada Supreme Court and received judgment for attorneys’ fees and costs in excess of $1 million

■ Obtained judgment in favor of defense in nearly $30 million federal deficiency judgment action

■ Obtained jury verdict in favor of defense in over $25 million breach of contract action

■ Obtained bench verdict in favor of defense in $2.25 million legal malpractice action

Contact: J. Randall Jones or Mona Kaveh

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Real Estate Litigation

■ Obtained judgment for specific performance of contracts related to the purchase and sale of a prominent property and business and for compensatory damages

■ Over $600,000 jury verdict for real estate broker in breach of oral contract action

Contact: Spencer H. Gunnerson

Email: [email protected]