The firm’s
civil trial and appellate practice runs both broad
and deep. Jones Bell routinely litigates complex matters
in state and federal courts, including bankruptcy
court, from trial through appeal. Examples of our
work may be found in published decisions such as Dean
Witter Reynolds v. Byrd, 470 U.S. 213 (1985),
one of the matters that we have handled from the trial
court through a successful appeal to the United States
Supreme Court; Securities Investor Protection Corporation
v. Vigman, 908 F.2d 1461 (9th Cir. 1990); Applied
Genetics International, Inc. v. First Affiliated Securities,
Inc., 912 F.2d 1238 (10th Cir. 1990); TITAN/Value
Equities Group, Inc. v. Superior Court (Balestrieri),
29 Cal. App. 4th 482 (1994); Dodge, Warren and
Peters Ins. Services, Inc. v. Riley, 105 Cal.
App. 4th 1414 (2003), and Reed v. Mutual Service
Corporation, 106 Cal. App. 4th 1359 (2003).
In addition to
traditional litigation in state and federal courts,
Jones Bell has been at the forefront of the drive
to resolve cases by means of alternative dispute resolution
(ADR) techniques such as mediation and arbitration.
Indeed, the first and last cases cited above have
helped shape modern ADR practice in ways that no other
single law firm can
claim. 
Thus,
while Jones Bell is exceptionally proud of its strong
trial practice, we make sure that every matter we
handle is assessed for possible benefits from ADR
mechanisms.
Jones Bell routinely
represents businesses, their principals, partners,
officers, directors, and employees in actions involving
matters of contract, business torts, and statutory
liabilities. In addition to traditional business claims,
such as breach of contract, negligence, misrepresentation,
and breach of fiduciary duty, we regularly litigate
trade secret, licensing, antitrust, unfair competition,
UCC sales and secured transactions, product liability
and environmental disputes. Jones Bell has also taken
an active role in the litigation of new e-commerce
issues, and prevailed in one of the earliest cases
enforcing trademark rights over Internet domain name
registration in California.
