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Jesse-Justin Cuevas

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Partner at Susman Godfrey LLP

Los Angeles, California

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About Jesse-Justin Cuevas

Jesse-Justin Cuevas is an in-demand trial lawyer representing both plaintiffs and defendants in high stakes, complex commercial litigation across the country. Named an Elite Woman of the Plaintiffs Bar by National Law Journal (2025), Top Woman Lawyer by Daily Journal (2025), Top 100 Lawyer in California by the Daily Journal (2024), On The Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyer by the American Bar Association (2023), a Trailblazers Plaintiffs’ Lawyers by National Law Journal (2022, ALM), and a Rising Star of the Plaintiffs Bar by National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers (2021, ALM), Cuevas has tried multiple cases and secured landmark wins and settlements for her diverse portfolio of clients who range from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses and individuals. Cuevas’s skillset is as versatile as the industries she works with. She has successfully litigated cases related to antitrust, breach of contract, consumer and commercial fraud, state and federal False Claims Act, intellectual property, products liability, and trade secrets. Her litigation and trial successes span the consumer goods, cryptocurrency, solar and gas construction, insurance, mortgage, pharmaceutical, and streaming technology industries. The common thread among each of Cuevas’s cases is the confidence she instills in her clients and her instinctive and nimble talent for understanding complex subject matters and intelligibly translating them into facts and arguments to judges, juries, and arbitration panels. Cuevas has tried multiple cases to judgment, each time parachuting into the case shortly before trial is set to begin. For example, Cuevas and her team secured one of the biggest trial wins in the country: a $330+ million Final Award for her client, one of the largest independent power producers in the country, after a full arbitration hearing. Cuevas helped prepare the sprawling case for trial in less than six months from the filing of the complaint. At trial, Cuevas directed her client’s Chief Operating Officer and cross-examined multiple high-ranking executives for the respondents, including the other side’s Chief Accounting Officer from whom Cuevas elicited an admission of breach on the witness stand. When she isn’t killing it in the courtroom, Cuevas leads key initiatives at Susman Godfrey and works with multiple community and professional organizations in her Los Angeles and broader community, including several aimed at making the legal industry a more diverse and inclusive place to practice.

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Los Angeles, California

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