
Jesse Creed
About Jesse Creed
Jesse Creed is a partner and trial attorney with Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP and focuses his practice on high-stakes matters, including complex and catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, sexual abuse, and product liability cases.
Licensed in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii, he currently serves in a leadership role as Individual Plaintiffs Co-Liaison Counsel in the Maui Fires litigation and as Liaison Counsel in the Social Media Addiction Cases.
A three-time recipient of the distinguished California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award, Mr. Creed is recognized among the 2025 Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal and named to the Los Angeles Business Journal's Leaders of Influence: Thriving in Their 40s, a list of the region's most influential professionals. He is also named among the Lawdragon 500 list of Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers and to the list of Southern California Super Lawyers, as well as selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America since 2022. Prior to those recognitions, Mr. Creed has been listed previously among the Super Lawyers Up-and-Coming 100 and on the list Rising Stars since 2019.
After graduating from Princeton University summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Creed graduated law school from Columbia Law School in New York City, where he was a James Kent scholar all three years (top 1-3% of his class) and earned prizes for achieving the highest marks in constitutional law and property. He taught constitutional law to first-year students, served on the Columbia Law Review, and was a research assistant to former Commissioner of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Harvey Goldschmid.
Following law school, Mr. Creed had the honor of serving as a law clerk to Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Judge Diana Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Creed used to work at Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP before deciding to represent the "little guy."
Notable case results
In Donna Motsinger v. William H. Cosby, Jr.
Global settlement in the Maui Fires Litigation
In the Nassar sexual abuse cases
In Garcia v. Newport-Mesa Unified School District
In Senk v. City of Newport Beach
In the Southern California Gas Leak Cases
In the ACT disability discrimination class action
Settlement during trial in Mike Price v. Midea
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.




