J. Randall Jones
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Randall Jones’s practice embraces many aspects of civil litigation. Named Trial Lawyer of the Year in 1998 by the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, Randall has tried more than forty jury trials to verdict in both state and federal court, including In re: Kitec Fitting Litigation, the largest class action case ever tried in Nevada, resulting in verdicts and settlements of nearly $300 million for 32,000 Nevada homeowners. He is admitted in, and has appeared before and argued cases in, the Nevada Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Randall’s practice is focused on complex commercial litigation as well as mass tort, Multi‑District Litigation and class action claims – In re: MGM Fire Litigation, Breast Implants, Fen‑Phen Diet Drug, and Humana v. Forsyth, which resulted in a significant United States Supreme Court decision – in addition to a wide range of administrative law matters such as land use and zoning claims, insurance coverage/bad faith claims, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death actions.
Randall’s skills as a civil trial lawyer have been recognized on a local and national level. Randall was named in Las Vegas Magazine’s “Top Lawyers, Las Vegas’ best attorneys as chosen by their peers,” and in Nevada Woman’s “Best Lawyers.” He is an inductee of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor reserved for the top one percent of Trial Lawyers in the United States, and has been recognized for his advocacy skills by another prestigious trial organization, the American Board of Trial Attorneys. He is also past President of the Las Vegas Chapter of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, an elite group of boutique law firms in the United States and abroad. He is listed in Super Lawyers and in the Business Litigation Section of The Best Lawyers in America, and was named Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. Chambers USA considers him “among the top litigators in the state.” The American Trial Lawyers Association has also recognized Randall as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in Nevada, and Nevada Business Magazine counts him among the state’s Legal Elite. Randall has been appointed as a Civil Arbitrator & Mediator for the American Arbitration Association, and has served on its Construction Advisory Committee and was a long‑standing Panel Member of the Nevada Medical/Legal Screening Panel. He has been a contributing author of the American Bar Association’s Survey of State Class Action Law for more than a decade.
Randall is also committed to serving the legal profession and the public. He is a Trustee of his Alma Mater, California Western School of Law and was a founding Board member of the Thomas and Mack Legal Clinic at the Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas. He was named a Colleague of the Nevada Law Foundation, created by the Nevada Bar to provide legal services to the poor. And he has been a Board member of the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, a nonprofit, public interest law firm serving low‑income residents of Clark County, Nevada, since 1995. A Las Vegas native, Randall earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1978 and graduated from California Western School of Law in 1981. He was conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by his alma matter in 2012.
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Nevada
- U.S. District Court, District of Nevada
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
EDUCATION
- California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, J.D., 1981
- Honors: California Western School of Law, Trustee
- University of Nevada, B.A., 1978
HONORS AND AWARDS
- The Best Lawyers in America (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation, Land Use and Zoning Litigation, Real Estate Litigation), 1999-Present
- Chambers USA, American’s Leading Lawyer in Business
- Chambers USA, Nevada Litigation: General Commercial
- Conferred Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by California Western School of Law
- Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent
- Named Trial Lawyer of the Year, Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, 1998
- Nevada Business Magazine’s Legal Elite
- Nevada Woman’s “Best Lawyers”
- Super Lawyers
- The American Trial Lawyers Association recognized as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in Nevada and Nevada Business Magazine
- Trial Lawyer of the Year, Nevada, 1998
PUBLISHED WORKS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Co-author, Survey of State Class Action Law, Nevada published annually by the American Bar Association
- Contributing author, American Bar Association’s Survey of State Class Action Law
- Panel Member, Nevada Medical/Legal Screening Panel
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- American Arbitration Association, Construction Advisory Committee
- American Bar Association
- American Board of Trial Attorneys
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Civil Arbitrator & Mediator, American Arbitration Association
- Clark County Bar Association
- Las Vegas Chapter of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, President
- Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, Board Member
- Nevada Justice Association
- State Bar of Nevada
- Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic, Advisory Board Member
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
- In re: Kitec Fitting Litigation
- In re: MGM Fire Litigation, Breast Implants, Fen‑Phen Diet Drug
- Humana v. Forsyth