Jordan Davisson Cook is an associate in the Orange County office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Litigation & Trial Department. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on securities litigation, complex business disputes, professional liability, and class action litigation.
Ms. Cook has represented clients in connection with:
Securities class action suits
Shareholder derivative litigation
Books-and-records demands
Internal investigations
Merger disputes
Ms. Cook is on the Board of the Federal Bar Association (OC Chapter).
Experience
Ms. Cook’s recent cases include representing:
A development-stage biopharmaceutical company and its CEO in rare Section 10(b) securities class action trial to go to jury verdict. Trial team defeated more than 95% of plaintiffs’ claimed damages at trial. Hsu v. Puma Biotechnology, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2019)
Specialized electronic systems developer in shareholder derivative actions, books-and-records demand, and Section 10(b) securities class action. Litigation team won dismissal of one derivative action on standing grounds and Section 10(b) securities class action. Genessee County Employees’ Retirement Systems v. Chopra (Los Angeles Cty. Sup. Ct. 2019); Arkansas Teachers Retirement Sys. v. OSI Systems, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2019)
Former CEO of a national bank in Section 10(b) securities class action
Manufacturing company in Section 10(b) securities class action and related shareholder derivative actions
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
California
Education
JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 2013 Managing Editor, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal
BA in Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008
A federal jury returned a verdict that was a very small fraction of what plaintiffs sought from Latham client Puma Biotechnology in the first federal securities class action to reach a verdict in nearly 10 years.
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