Jillian N. London

Jillian London is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation, Media, Entertainment & Technology, Class Actions, and Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Groups. Jillian is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee.

She has represented clients in complex commercial litigation in both the trial courts and on appeal. Jillian has extensive experience litigating all stages of commercial disputes in the technology and entertainment sectors, and has particular experience in media relations, First Amendment, breach of contract, antitrust, and class action disputes.

Jillian has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Entertainment and Sports Law, and Appellate Practice (2024). She was also named in Variety’s Hollywood’s New Leaders list for 2023.

Recent representative matters include:

• Representing a major entertainment company in profit participation disputes.
• Representing a major technology company in multidistrict class action litigation related to consumer fraud claims, which resulted in a favorable settlement for the client.
• Representing AMC in profit participation and breach of contract litigations concerning the television series, The Walking Dead.
• Representing a major pharmaceutical company in a purported “reverse payment” antitrust action in which direct and indirect purchasers sought billions of dollars in damages.
• Securing dismissal of a breach of fiduciary duty action against the Trustee of a billion dollar Estate.
• Representing a major technology company in a putative class action concerning misclassification of its workers.
• Representing an entertainment company in relation to a prior contractual dispute over the rights in certain music recordings.
• Securing a new trial for an automobile manufacturer in a dispute with a former motor vehicle franchisee after a jury had awarded $256 million in damages.
• Obtaining affirmance from the Eleventh Circuit of a summary judgment ruling in favor of a for-profit educational institution against False Claims Act allegations.

Jillian received her law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2013, where she was a technical editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and the President of the Board of Student Advisers, and received the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership. She graduated magna cum laude in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Harvard College and received an Master of Science with Distinction in Philosophy & Public Policy from the London School of Economics & Political Science in 2008. After obtaining her Master of Science degree, Jillian worked as a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, on a nationwide mental health campaign.

Prior to joining the firm, Jillian served as a law clerk to The Honorable Chester J. Straub in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to The Honorable Claire C. Cecchi in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She also worked as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York.

Jillian serves on the Board of Directors of KEEN Los Angeles and the Harvard Law School Association of Los Angeles. She also maintains an active pro bono practice and has significant experience representing individuals and organizations with immigration, First Amendment, and other constitutional law related issues.

Jillian is a member of the California and New York bars. She is admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, as well as the United States District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.