Jeff Wilkerson

Jeff focuses primarily on high-value, complex litigation, including class action defense, investigations, and appeals. In addition, he counsels several consumer products and financial services companies on advertising, labeling, regulatory, and compliance issues. In sum, Jeff works with his clients both to anticipate, manage, and mitigate litigation risk and, if litigation is filed, to strategically and effectively protect their interests.

Jeff is adept at managing complex and high-value cases, whether in the context of a single case or investigation, a multi-forum dispute, or a centralized multi-district litigation. He has taken and defended dozens of depositions; managed massive document collection, review, and production efforts; interviewed internal and external stakeholders (including in the context of internal investigations); managed large teams of expert witnesses and consultants; drafted hundreds of motions; negotiated, drafted, and implemented settlement agreements; negotiated with state and federal prosecutors; designed and executed jury research projects; prepared numerous complex cases for trial; and presented evidence and witnesses to state and federal courts.

He is also a respected legal writer, appellate strategist, and oral advocate. Clients count on Jeff to prepare their most important briefs and motions, both in cases where he is lead counsel and in cases that require someone to “parachute in” for a key motion or appeal. He has authored hundreds of motions and oppositions filed in courts around the country, including briefing to federal and state courts of appeal and the Supreme Court of the United States, and he has argued numerous motions and appeals before federal district and appellate courts.

Prior to entering private practice, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra Ikuta on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In law school, he was an editor for The University of Chicago Law Review and worked with the Exoneration Project to seek the release of prisoners with compelling evidence of actual innocence.