Joseph Reiter

Joseph Reiter is an accomplished litigator with a track record of high-profile wins at trial and on appeal. Described by judges and clients as an “excellent” and “impressive” lawyer, Mr. Reiter has been honored as a finalist for “Young Lawyer of the Year” by The American Lawyer and a Trials “Rising Star” by Law360. In addition to his recognition by Benchmark Litigation, he is ranked by Chambers for his commercial litigation work.

Mr. Reiter has obtained favorable results across a broad range of complex litigation, including healthcare, antitrust, trade secret, class action, False Claims Act, whistleblower retaliation, employment, patent, and tax cases. Regardless of the subject matter, clients rely on Mr. Reiter when creative and forceful advocacy is required in some of their most significant matters. He has been instrumental in securing wins for Amazon, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, the California Institute of Technology, Acorn Technologies, BlackBerry, and the State Bar of California, to name a few.

With ten trial victories under his belt, Mr. Reiter has substantial courtroom experience that includes delivering opening and closing arguments, examining witnesses, and arguing motions and appeals. In addition, his written advocacy has secured the dismissal of multiple cases through dispositive motions and a victory before the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Secured a complete defense arbitration award after a two-week trial for the country’s largest integrated health care system against claims that it improperly withheld tens of millions of dollars in payments from a hospital system. The arbitrator rejected the hospitals’ breach of contract, breach of implied covenant, declaratory judgment, and California unfair competition claims by adopting our arguments that the health system’s line-item denials were within the scope of its broad contractual rights to review and audit the hospitals’ billed claims before payment.
  
  
• Obtained a favorable settlement exceeding $300 million in value for Match Group against Google over its illegal monopolization and other anticompetitive behavior in the distribution of mobile apps and processing of in-app purchases. The settlement was recognized with a U.S. Impact Case Award by Benchmark Litigation.
  
  
• Secured a complete victory after a two-week arbitration trial for Amazon.com in a suit brought by eBay, alleging contract, fraud, RICO, tort, and unfair competition claims.
  
  
• Obtained a complete defense verdict for PricewaterhouseCoopers in a high-profile lawsuit and closely watched federal trial brought by a former employee and SEC whistleblower, Mauro Botta. Secured a complete dismissal of all claims against seven partners on a motion to dismiss.
  
  
• Secured a complete defense verdict for Caltech after a four-week trial in a wrongful termination suit in which a former researcher claimed the school retaliated against him for allegedly exposing the misuse of government funds.

• Appellate
• Arbitration
• Class action
• Commercial disputes
• Competition/antitrust
• Entertainment
• Government and regulatory
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Product liability and recall
• Securities
• Tax disputes

• Accounting
• Banking
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Pharmaceutical and life sciences
• Real estate
• Technology and telecommunications

• J.D. (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) - University of Michigan Law School - 2013
• B.A. (with honors) - University of Colorado - 2009

• Director, Federal Bar Association, Orange County Chapter
   

• California - 2013