Jennifer H. Rearden

Jennifer H. Rearden, a partner resident in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office, is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice and co-chair of the firm’s Electronic Discovery and Information Law Practice Group.

Ms. Rearden’s practice focuses on class actions and other complex business litigation at the trial level, including securities fraud, accountant malpractice, and hostile M&A, as well as appeals.  Ms. Rearden has represented the bidder or the target in several high-profile takeover contests in the past few years, including Maxwell Shoe Company, Inc. in connection with its defense of an unsolicited offer by, and subsequent merger with, Jones Apparel Group; Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings, Inc. in its successful effort to fend off a hostile takeover attempt by Mesa Air Group; and ArvinMeritor in its attempted takeover of Dana Corporation.  Ms. Rearden also represented Madison Square Garden and others in trial-level and appellate litigation against various State and City entities and lobbying efforts challenging and ultimately defeating the City’s sweeping proposal to build a new stadium for the New York Jets on Manhattan’s West Side.  In addition, Ms. Rearden represented Edison Properties and its affiliates in litigation against the New York Department of Environmental Conservation that successfully challenged that agency’s denial of Edison’s application to participate in the Brownfield Cleanup Program.  Since 2007, she has represented the National Association of Securities Dealers (and now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) in putative class actions and other litigation relating to the consolidation of its member regulatory functions with those of NYSE Regulation, Inc.  Ms. Rearden currently represents Home Depot in a series of matters in states around the country that have denied Home Depot refunds of sales tax payments on private label credit card transactions where the customers ultimately defaulted.

Ms. Rearden graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.  She received her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Journal of International Law and Politics.

Ms. Rearden serves on the board of the Yale Club of New York City, Copland House and the NYU Law Alumni Association.  She is a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production, The Sedona Conference® Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure, and the New York State Bar Association Committee on Electronic Discovery.

Ms. Rearden is the author of “Subprime-Related Securities Class Actions and Derivative Suits,” a chapter in the leading treatise on securities litigation, Practicing Law Institute’s Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide.  She is a member of the bars of the States of New York, Connecticut, and Georgia, and of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Northern District of Georgia.  She also is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Recent Publications

• Author, "How (Not) to Lose Data and Alienate Judges," Law Technology News, April 2011
• Author, “Scheindlin’s ‘Day Laborer’ Decision: Much Ado About Metadata,” Law Technology News, February 2011
• Author, “Subprime-Related Securities Class Actions and Derivative Suits,” Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide, November 2010
• Author, “Oh No, Ephemeral Data!“ New York Law Journal, March 2010
• Author, “If The Sedona Conference Builds It, Will They Cooperate? Year in Review,” New York Law Journal, October 2009
• Author, “Judge Issues a ‘Wake-Up Call’ to New York Lawyers: When It Comes to Search Terms, Play Nice and Plan Ahead,” Bloomberg Law Reports, New York Law, May 2009
• Author, “Trends In Subprime-Related Securities Fraud Actions,” Law 360, 2008