Jay Ramsey

Overview

Jay Ramsey is a litigation partner in firm’s Century City Office. He serves as the Office Managing Partner for Century City and as a leader of the firm's Out at Sheppard LGBTQ Group.

Areas of Practice

Jay Ramsey is a go-to litigator and trial attorney for clients across industries, handling disputes pre-litigation, before trial, at trial, and on appeal. He also defends companies against false advertising, privacy, and other consumer class actions.

Business Disputes

Jay helps his clients assert and defend claims flowing from:

Mergers and acquisitions, including claims for breaches of representations and warranties.
Commercial real-estate transactions and development agreements.
Manufacturing, supply, distribution, and other vendor agreements
Manufacturing defects, design defects, and related delays, particularly in the aerospace, defense, and electronics industries.
Software implementations and solutions, including ERP implementations and SaaS-based solutions.
Intellectual property disputes, licensing agreements, distribution rights, profit participation, and accounting issues.

Jay’s clients have included, among others, banks, financial institutions, real estate owners and developers, health care providers, hospitals, aerospace companies, electronics manufacturers, defense contractors, retailers and other consumer brands, movie and television studios, content producers, and start-ups.

Consumer Class Actions and Mass Arbitrations

Jay is a Leader of the firm’s Consumer Class Action Defense Team. He is also a member of the firm’s Advertising, Retail, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Food & Beverage groups. He has defended major retailers, brands, product manufacturers, fintech companies, lead generators, advertising networks, food and beverage companies, insurers, health plans, hospitals, airlines, telecommunications companies, and more in a wide range of consumer class actions and mass arbitrations. His experience includes defending companies against:

False advertising claims
False discount pricing claims
Product liability and warranty claims
Alleged privacy violations, including under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claims
Data breach claims

Along with his litigation practice, Jay also advises and counsels clients on a variety of marketing, advertising, pricing, privacy, and related e-commerce matters.

Experience

Notable Appellate Decisions

NEI Contracting & Eng'g Inc. v. Hanson Aggregates Pac. Sw., Inc., 926 F.3d 528 (9th Cir. 2019) – Appellate decision affirming complete trial victory and denial of certification in a CIPA class action.

Sabori v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc., No. B284350 (Cal. Ct. App. Apr. 24, 2019) – Appellate decision affirming grant of summary judgment on invasion of privacy claim

Kayne v. Mense, B254975 (Cal. App. Mar. 25, 2016) – Appellate decision overturning trial court’s award of treble damages under California Penal Code section 496

Rosolowski v. People Media, B250482 (Cal. App. Oct. 29, 2014) – Appellate decision affirming dismissal of claim under California Anti-SPAM law.