Jennifer C. Arnold is a member of our business litigation group.  Jennifer delivers high-value representation to our clients by understanding each client’s litigation goals and business realities, and working strategically to identify legal and factual strengths that can guide the case to a resolution that addresses the client’s needs. 

Prior to joining Wilson Turner Kosmo, Jennifer served as a Deputy Attorney General in California’s Department of Justice, where she represented entity and individual defendants in matters ranging from inverse condemnation, to multi-defendant medical negligence, to civil rights claims.  As a “DAG,” Jennifer’s responsibilities ranged from sole responsibility for extricating a public entity from a complex, multi-party state constitutional claim to collaborating as part of a team that successfully obtained dismissals in federal court of former state attorney generals and state prosecutors. 

Jennifer previously served as a law clerk to Magistrate Judge Mitchell Dembin, where she focused on ESI (electronically stored information) discovery matters.  In that capacity, she assisted in handling civil matters ranging from civil rights complaints and habeas corpus petitions, to business and intellectual property disputes, to consumer class actions.  In the evenings, she taught practical lawyering skills, like client-centered counseling, as an Adjunct Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. 

Prior to entering public service, Jennifer practiced as an attorney at a boutique civil litigation firm.  In that time, she represented individual and entity clients in business disputes concerning issues of unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, privacy/data breach notification, breach of contract, consumer class actions, employment, professional responsibility, franchisee/franchisor, securities, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud. 

During law school, Jennifer externed for Magistrate Judge William McCurine, Jr. in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Affiliations

• Association of Business Trial Lawyers, San Diego Chapter, Member
• San Diego County Bar Association, Member
• Lawyers Club, Member
• Federal Bar Association, Member
• American Inns of Court, Louis M. Welsh Chapter, alumna
• Women in eDiscovery, Member
• ESI Forum, Member
• San Diego Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Board, Director (2011-2012)
• Robert’s Rules Association, Representative (2002 - 2009)
  • Collaborated with the Authorship Council and representatives of the Association. 
  • Discussed and voted upon management, contracts, copyright, and promotional decisions.
  • Promoted the world’s foremost authority on parliamentary procedure to professional parliamentarians and lay users.

Speaking & Publications

Speaking Engagements:

• “Best Practices for Protecting Your Talent and Intellectual Property”, Association of Corporate Counsel (June 2019)
• Adjunct Professor, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, 2016 and 2017
  • Federal Civil Procedure II, 1L practicum
  • Client Interviewing and Counseling, upper-level practicum

Representative Matters

• Obtained dismissal without leave to amend at the pleading stage of nationwide Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action on emergency exception grounds.
• Secured complete defense verdict in favor of entity and 5 employee clients in 2 week jury trial.
• Obtained summary judgment for entity client in inverse condemnation collective action designated complex, where co-defendants’ summary judgment motions had been denied.
• Secured summary judgment in favor of computer coding client in trade secrets misappropriation case, followed by award of attorneys’ fees and costs in client’s favor due to plaintiff’s bad faith.
• Negotiated pre-verdict settlement in executive client’s favor after close of evidence in 2 week jury trial in breach of contract and employment dispute in amount 6 times higher than client’s last pre-trial demand.
• Prevailed in a rare grant of a writ of mandamus and published decision in business client’s favor on a novel issue of civil procedure in Orion Commc'ns, Inc. v. Superior Court, 226 Cal. App. 4th 152, 155 (2014).
• Obtained verdict in business entity client’s favor following 2 day bench trial.
• Prevailed on summary judgment in favor of multiple medical doctors accused of malpractice, negligence, and deliberate indifference.
• Earned pleading-stage interpleader dismissal in state court in stop-payment notice action.
• Negotiated pleading-stage settlement satisfying all of client’s demands in trademark dispute.
• Collected judgments owed clients despite opponents’ bankruptcy filings and other procedural gamesmanship.
• Represented restaurant franchisees in breach of contract and trade secrets dispute.
• Represented international specialty chemical company in toxic tort collective action.
• Negotiated nominal settlement in favor of securities broker client in complex multi-party securities fraud matter filed in aftermath of 2008 recession.
• Obtained dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in insurance fund interpleader action based on complex issues relating to the domicile of several sham entities.

Honors and Recognition

• National Association of Attorneys General Trial, Trial Advocacy, Spring 2018
  • Selected and graduated from week-long trial simulation training program