Jesse S. Krompier represents clients in commercial litigation and class actions. He focuses his practice on high-stakes business disputes, complex litigation, consumer actions, mass torts, and product liability. Jesse was a member of the Morgan Lewis trial team that secured a unanimous $133 million jury verdict in an environmental cost-recovery lawsuit for Shell USA, Inc., recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top Verdicts of 2022. Jesse counsels clients in the technology, energy, tax and advisory, biopharmaceutical, and healthcare industries, among other sectors.
Jesse is an adept litigator with a track record of success at trial and in dispositive motion practice. In addition, Jesse helps clients achieve efficient solutions through pre-lawsuit investigations, risk management, and early dispute resolution. Jesse has played a significant role in some of the most high-profile environmental litigation in the country, including the Aliso Canyon gas leak cases. He has also litigated multimillion-dollar business disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Jesse maintains an active pro bono practice, through which he provides counsel to clients seeking asylum in the United States. Jesse also works with the ACLU of California’s Criminal Justice Reform Project, which seeks to end racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
Jesse has served as an associate representative for the Los Angeles office and as a member of the Summer Program Committee. While in law school, Jesse served as an extern for Judge Dolly M. Gee of the US District Court for the Central District of California. He represented UCLA at the 2016 Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition and was a recipient of UCLA’s Moot Court Honors Program Award.
Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Los Angeles Chapter
Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Litigation Section
Member, American Bar Association
UCLA Moot Court Honors Program Award (2017)