Jesse-Justin Cuevas tries high-stakes legal matters across the nation. She has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for plaintiff clients and protected defense clients from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential exposure. Jesse-Justin also is a leader in the legal community: she is the founder and co-chair of Susman Godfrey’s Mentoring Committee, on the Steering Committee for Just the Beginning Foundation’s Los Angeles Summer Legal Institute, and is the Ninth Circuit Board Representative for the Federal Bar Association’s Younger Lawyers Division. Cuevas graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law and, before joining Susman Godfrey, clerked for Judge Albert Diaz (4th Cir.) and Judge Dolly M. Gee (C.D. Cal.).