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. He has also been selected as a Trials “Rising Star” by Law360 and among The Recorder’s “Lawyers on the Fast Track,” the Daily Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40,” and the Los Angeles Times’ “Legal Visionaries.” 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 more than 10 trials 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 Supreme Court of the United States.

Updated Oct 2025

• Mr. Reiter secured a complete defense arbitration award after a two-week trial for the country’s largest integrated healthcare 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 healthcare system’s line-item denials were within the scope of its broad contractual rights to review and audit the hospitals’ billed claims before payment.
  
  
• Mr. Reiter 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. 
  
  
• Mr. Reiter successfully defended Amazon.com and three Amazon executives against a historic FTC lawsuit targeting its Prime membership. Described as “a win for Amazon,” the case settled after three days of trial with no admissions of liability. 
  
  
• Mr. Reiter represented the country’s largest integrated healthcare system in a lawsuit with over $500 million at stake brought by HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital systems in the country. The suit alleged the integrated healthcare system systematically underpaid HCA for emergency services provided to its members. Mr. Reiter obtained a favorable settlement after a two-week jury trial and during HCA’s case-in-chief.
  
  
• Mr. Reiter 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. He secured a complete dismissal of all claims against seven partners on a motion to dismiss.

• Appellate
• Arbitration
• Class action
• Commercial disputes
• Competition/antitrust
• Government and Regulatory
• Intellectual Property
• Labor and employment
• Tax
• Tax disputes

• Accounting
• Banking
• Financial services
• Healthcare
• Technology and telecommunications

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

• Director, Federal Bar Association, Orange County Chapter
   

• California - 2013