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John C. Hueston
About John C. Hueston
John Hueston, a Fellow of the American College
of Trial Lawyers, has been described by
Chambers and Partners as “hard driving,
insightful and aggressive.” Twice recognized as
a "California Lawyer of the Year," Mr. Hueston is
the former chair of Irell & Manella’s Business Trial
and Crisis Management practice. He has been
selected to serve as lead trial counsel by Fortune
500 companies and by governments in a variety
of cases, including business torts cases,
securities and shareholder class action cases,
patent litigation cases, trademark infringement
cases, and environmental cases.
“hard-driving, insightful and
aggresive” who has “an energy
that is tremendous”
Chambers USA, 2014
CONTACT
[email protected]
949.226.6740
EDUCATION
Yale Law School (J.D., 1991)
Notes Editor of The Yale Law Journal
Dartmouth College (B.A., 1986)
Magna cum laude with Honors
Mr. Hueston and his team recently secured a
$5.15 billion settlement after trial, which
represented the largest environmental recovery in
U.S. history. A former lead prosecutor for the
Enron trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling,
Mr. Hueston also devotes a substantial part of his
practice to internal investigations, corporate crisis
management and white collar criminal defense.
“He doesn’t just win. He
destroys.”
Los Angeles Times, 2006
EMAIL [email protected]
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LOS ANGELES | 213.788.4340 | 523 WEST 6TH STREET SUITE 400 LOS ANGELES, CA 90014
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John C. Hueston Cont.
The American Lawyer magazine has recognized Mr. Hueston as one of the nation's Top 50 Young
Litigators and California Lawyer magazine twice has named him a "California Lawyer of the Year." Mr.
Hueston is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor reserved for less than 1% of
active lawyers who have "mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been
marked with the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality."
Chambers & Partners recognizes Mr. Hueston as a leading lawyer in commercial litigation and whitecollar crime and government investigations. Benchmark Litigation has repeatedly recognized Mr.
Hueston as a National Litigation Star. The Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal has repeatedly
named him as one of California’s 100 most influential lawyers. Best Lawyers in America named Mr.
Hueston a “Lawyer of the Year” in 2015 and has recognized him annually since 2009. Mr. Hueston is a
recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's Marcus Kaufman Jurisprudence Award.
A “high-profile, tough-as-nails lawyer with a reputation for rooting
out corruption at the highest levels.”
Daily Journal, May 26, 2009
As a prosecutor, Mr. Hueston was presented with four awards by three U.S. Attorneys General for his
trial work, including the highest award bestowed by the U.S. Department of Justice.
As Forbes magazine noted of his work in the trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, where he served as
a lead prosecutor, “John Hueston was quickly able to establish a clear, uninterrupted connection between
fraudulent activities at Enron and the two defendants ... a methodically researched presentation of
evidence proving the defendants’ guilt.” The Los Angeles Times described Mr. Hueston’s crossexamination of Lay as “devastating” and The Associated Press called him “the perfect David to Lay’s
Goliath.”
“Hueston has a knack for taking complicated information and
presenting it to jurors so they’ll understand it in a personal way.”
Houston Chronicle, January 28, 2006
Mr. Hueston has been retained as lead counsel to represent clients in their most significant and highprofile matters, including:
Business Trials and Litigation
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• Secured a $5.15 billion settlement after trial for the Tronox Trust as the Litigation Trustee
responsible for prosecution of consolidated national litigation against Anadarko Petroleum
Company and Kerr McGee Corporation for fraudulent transfer of massive environmental, tort,
retiree and other liabilities see: “Tronox Trust Wins Up To $14B In Kerr-McGee Spinoff Row" in
Law360, “Anadarko, Kerr-McGee liable for Tronox cleanup costs -U.S. judge" in Reuters, and
“Judge Approves Anadarko's $5.15 Billion Settlement” in WSJ;
• Obtained summary judgment for Sempra Energy, a Fortune 500 energy services company, in a
cross-border dispute relating to a billion dollar liquefied natural gas terminal, see “Sempra Energy
defeats lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution: in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and “Sempra
wins one showdown with Mexican rancher” in the San Diego Tribune;
• After a 3-week jury trial in New York federal court in April 2013, won a $12 million punitive
damages verdict and liability findings on all claims of fraud, deceptive business practices and
false advertising (see “Collecting: Thieves And Forgers Rush In Where Big Spenders Dare To
Tread” in Forbes and “How They Won It” in Law360);
• Represents Navajo Nation for matters rising from Gold King Mine waste water disaster, see
“Navajo Nation preps lawsuit against EPA over mine spill” inThe Hill.
“‘Mr. Lay, I’m an assistant United States attorney,’ Hueston
responded. ‘This is my job. You may call me anything you
want.’ At that point the unthinkable happened: The crisp,
meticulous government prosecutor had claimed the moral
high ground from the family man who is calling two Baptist
ministers to testify on his behalf.”
CNN
• Obtained $50 million for Pacific Life against Bank of New York Mellon at conclusion of motions for
summary judgment in breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty matter in an investment
mismanagement case;
• Dismissal with prejudice of consolidated federal shareholder litigation arising from a $600 million
settlement with the USDOJ for alleged off-label promotional activities related to Botox;
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• Obtained over $50 million and award of IP rights for major telecommunications company at the
conclusion of an 8-month action;
• Dismissal of trade secrets case (see “Teva Loses Amgen Spying Suit Over Blood Drug Secrets” in
Law360);
• Obtained broad injunctions against theft of trade secrets and confidential information,
admissions of misappropriation of confidential information and published apologies from 5
former employees of CoreLogic Solutions, LLC, one of the country’s leading property
information, analytics and services providers.
“The government lawyers took a very complicated case, one that
easily could have gotten bogged down in stultifying accounting
minutia, and created a compelling theme of ‘lies and choices,’ just as
prosecutor John Hueston promised in his opening statement.”
Fortune Magazine
• Secured decertification of a consumer class action alleging violations of California’s false
advertising and consumer protection laws, on behalf of a publicly traded manufacturer of natural
health products and nutritional supplements;
• Obtained dismissal with prejudice of False Claims Act claims alleged to be worth tens of millions
of dollars in action brought against public entity;
• Defense of Amgen in national class action after remand by U.S. Supreme Court (Amgen v.
Connecticut Retirement Plan and Trust Funds);
• Recovery of $20 million “earn out” payments for former executives of Automotive.com;
• Termination of one of a Fortune 500 company’s most significant patent litigation matters through
an early and targeted motion for summary judgment for noninfringement;
“With no key evidence, skill was at a premium.... Hueston’s
chilly persistence left the once-genial corporate chieftain,
who had been expected to flash his charm like a get-out-of-
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jail card, stammering and angry, drawn for the jury in a few
quick strokes as a micromanager who thought he could talk
his way out of trouble...”
The Washington Post
• Obtained multimillion dollar settlement for former CEO deprived of change in control benefits in
case initially deemed “meritless” in company public filings;
• Secured permanent injunction and won trial for UCLA in civil actions against organizations and
individuals threatening violence against faculty members and administrators;
• Defeated CEQA challenges to proposed residential development by Las Vegas developer Marnell
Corrao Associates and recovered 100% of attorney’s fees;
Corporate Crisis and White Collar Criminal Defense
• On the eve of trial in July 2015 and after four years of investigation and litigation, obtained
dismissal of all felony federal charges against a subsidiary of Waste Management Inc.,
America's largest environmental services provider, and two of its managers;
• Secured the termination without action of a long-running insider-trading investigation by the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission into former Goldman Sachs banker Matthew Korenberg;
• Dismissal of criminal mortgage fraud indictment after evidentiary hearings for prosecutorial
misconduct; Dallas County District Attorney held in contempt (see "Hill Wins, Watkins Loses" in
the Dallas Morning News);
• Dismissal of all 306 counts of an indictment brought by the Nevada Attorney General’s “Mortgage
Fraud Task Force” in first “robo-signing” prosecution (see “Massive ‘robo-signing’ prosecution
dismissed for misconduct” in the National Law Journal);
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“Hueston...was the perfect David to Lay’s Goliath – boyish,
buttoned-down, soft-spoken, utterly composed. It was Mr.
Hueston versus Mr. Houston. And it wasn’t pretty.”
The Associated Press
• Secured declination of federal criminal investigation against former Countrywide CEO Angelo
Mozilo;
• Termination of criminal investigation of Edwards Lifesciences without payment of fine or civil
settlement;
• FCPA investigation on behalf of a Fortune 100 company completed within 60 days and without
assessment of sanctions or fines;
• Resolved SEC and FDIC investigations against former Chief Lending Officer of Downey Financial
without charges or personal contribution to global settlement;
“Even before the trial began, Lay had publicly maintained
that he had sold his Enron stock only because he had no
choice... On cross-examination, prosecutor John Hueston
methodically eviscerated this claim.”
CNNMoney.com
• Resolved tri-state Attorneys General investigation into alleged false advertising by Fortune 500
health care company without fines or penalties;
• Obtained prosecution declinations for UCI and former individual “targets” in highly publicized
health care fraud investigation of the UCI Liver Transplant Program;
• Obtained prosecution declination for Kaiser Permanente in Nadia Suleyman “Octomom”
investigations of alleged HIPAA violations;
• Secured written declinations for two former Chief Executive Officers in two separate criminal and
S.E.C. stock option backdating investigations;
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• Resolved federal investigation of alleged celebrity privacy breaches at UCLA without charges or
fines;
• Independent Counsel for County of San Bernardino in corruption investigation.
“If two ways to alienate yourself from a jury are a) by putting
them to sleep and b) by coming across as unlikeable, Lay hit the
Lotto yesterday. His transformation at the hands of Hueston was
something to see.”
The Washington Post
Mr. Hueston also served as a lead trial attorney in one of the first criminal trademark infringement
cases brought to trial in Southern California. Mr. Hueston has been specially commended by the
National Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, the F.B.I., the I.R.S. and U.S. Customs for
his performance as the lead trial attorney in fraud, tax and public corruption trials.
Mr. Hueston has lectured nationally at law and business schools on topics of trial advocacy and
corporate governance, including Cornell, Loyola, Stanford, UCLA, U.C. Hastings, UCI, USC and Yale.
Mr. Hueston served as a law clerk for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr. of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Mr. Hueston is currently National Co-Chair of the ABA White Collar Crime Committee. Mr. Hueston is
a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers’ National Trial Competition Committee, the
Federal Rules of Evidence Committee. Additionally, Mr. Hueston serves as a Central District of
California Merit Selection Panel member to assist the U.S. District Court with the appointment and
reappointment of magistrate judges.
Mr. Hueston is a past President of the Orange County Bar Association, the second largest bar
association in the State of California, and a former President of the Federal Bar Association of
Orange County. Mr. Hueston also served as a Central District of California Judicial Conference
Lawyer Representative. Mr. Hueston served as a Transition Team Member for California Attorney
General Kamala Harris and as a member of her Mortgage Fraud Task Force. He is also a member of
the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association and serves on the Board of Visitors for
UCI Law School.
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ATTORNEYS
of the YEAR
2015
Environment
CLAY
JOHN C. HUESTON
Hueston Hennigan
Los Angeles
H
ueston led the national team of lawyers at Irell and at Kirkland Ellis that reached a
$5.15 billion settlement for environmental cleanups, the largest ever to be included
in a bankruptcy case. Across the country, wood-processing, uranium-mining, and
rocket-fuel production companies owned by energy giant Kerr-McGee Corp. left behind
devastating environmental damage. Ahead of the company’s acquisition by Anadarko Petroleum Corp., executives with both companies tried to evade responsibility for the harm by
transferring liabilities to an insolvent shell company. Hueston was appointed by the DOJ as
trustee of the Anadarko Litigation Trust. The parties settled after a 34-day trial in the Southern
District of New York; Anadarko will fund cleanups in 47 states and provide $1 billion for the
Navajo Nation to contain radioactive contamination from uranium mining.
STATUS: The settlement was approved in November.
The 2015 CLAY Awards originally published in the March 2015 issue of California Lawyer.
Reprinted with permission. ©2015 Daily Journal Corporation, San Francisco, California

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