Jessica Davidson Miller

Partner

Jessica Davidson Miller, a partner in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office and a member of the Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practice, joined the firm in 1996.  Jessica has broad experience in the defense of purported class actions and other complex litigation with a focus on product liability matters and multidistrict litigation proceedings.  She regularly appears in both state and federal courts and has drafted numerous appellate and Supreme Court briefs on behalf of individuals, corporations, and members of Congress.

Jessica has been involved in several major federal legislative efforts and has written extensively on class action and tort reform issues.  Jessica serves as a counselor to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Civil Justice Reform Group, and other organizations dedicated to civil justice reform and played a major role in the passage of the Class Action Reform Act.  Jessica also speaks frequently at seminars and symposiums on litigation-related issues and has spoken to the National Association of Manufacturers, American Insurance Association and many other industry groups about class action reform, other forms of aggregate litigation and state attorney general actions. 

Prior to joining O’Melveny, Jessica worked for U.S. Senators Bob Graham and Frank Lautenberg.  From 1999-2000, she worked at the Federal Trade Commission as a staff attorney in the Office of General Counsel, focusing on appellate litigation.

Professional Activities

Co-Author, "Class Action Fairness: Fulfilling Framers' Promise," National Law Journal (February 13, 2006); "Litigating In the New Class Action World: A Practitioner's Guide to the Class Action Fairness Act's Legislative History," 6 BNA Class Action Litigation Report 11 (June 10, 2005); "The Class Action Fairness Act: Cleaning Up the Class Action Mess," 6 BNA Class Action Litigation Report 104 (February 11, 2005); "Class Actions In Disguise: The Growing Mass Action Problem," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (November 2003); "Targeted Policies Can End Class Action Forum Shopping," Washington Legal Foundation (September 5, 2003); "One Small Step for a County Court . . . One Giant Calamity for the National Legal System," Civil Justice Report (Center for Legal Policy, March 2003); "They're Making A Federal Case Out Of It . . . In State Court," 25 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 1 (Fall 2001); "Class Action Magnet Courts: The Allure Intensifies," 4 BNA Class Action Litigation Report 58 (January 24, 2003)