Jesse Gessin

Jesse Gessin is trial counsel for businesses and individuals facing a jury’s, judge’s, or arbitrator’s verdict.  Jesse is the rare counsel who successfully tries cases in both civil and criminal courts.   For 2018, Jesse’s multi-million-dollar jury verdict is recognized as the most considerable wills, trusts and estates, legal malpractice, fraud in the inducement, and property rights verdict in California.  https://topverdict.com/lists/2018/california/1.  The verdict stands as one of the most sizeable legal malpractice jury verdicts in California in the past five years.  Jesse entered the case only a few months before trial.  Jesse is also an accomplished trial counsel for criminal matters, having handled hundreds of cases at all stages of litigation, including trials and appeals.  Jesse has been lead counsel in over twenty felony jury trials to verdict with an extraordinary success rate.  He achieved dismissal, acquittal, mistrial, or reversal on appeal in over seventy percent of his federal felony jury trials, twenty-five percent ending in a jury’s total acquittal.  The nationwide acquittal by jury rate for all federal court defendants is one-tenth of one percent.  https://www.uscourts.gov/statistics/table/d-4/statistical-tables-federal-judiciary/2020/06/30.    Jesse teaches trial advocacy at the University of California, Irvine School of Law (a top 30 law school by US News and World Report), is recognized for his trial work by various publications (Super Lawyer, Best Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, TopVerdict, Courtroom View Network Top 10 Defense Verdicts, The Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum) and is a member of Litigation Counsel of America (by invitation only, limited to top 1/2 of 1 percent of lawyers nationally).