Jordan Rux

Jordan Rux represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes litigation around the nation. Named a Rising Star by Southern California Super Lawyers (2023, 2024, 2025, Thomson Reuters), Jordan has experience in a wide variety of practice areas including breach of contract, class actions, defamation, securities fraud, consumer protection, and intellectual property. Jordan plays a pivotal role in all of his cases: he has taken and defended depositions across the globe, won appeals, and argued at numerous hearings, including hearings on major dispositive motions.

RESULTS

Jordan and a team from Susman Godfrey previously secured a historic $787.5 million deal to resolve Dominion Voting System’s massive defamation lawsuit against Fox News Network, on the very day a jury trial was to commence in Delaware Superior Court. Susman Godfrey filed the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News Network on behalf of Dominion two years earlier over allegations that Fox made false statements that Dominion rigged the 2020 presidential election. A key member of the legal team, Jordan led efforts in deposing several Fox News hosts and producers. He also successfully argued many discovery motions and drafted numerous discovery motions that uncovered critical Fox News and Fox Corp. emails and text messages.

Jordan secured a favorable resolution for a group of investors who sued former officers and directors of a CBD startup for alleged securities fraud, claiming over $90 million in damages. Jordan led efforts managing the sprawling dispute, which spread across five separate lawsuits in two courts with over $1.8 billion in claims and counterclaims. Before reaching a settlement, Jordan argued key dispositive and discovery motions, drafted nearly all major pleadings and motions, and convinced the court to dismiss the defendants’ counterclaims alleging over $1 billion in damages.

Jordan is also a seasoned appellate litigator. He currently represents a class of patients who were overcharged (or “balance billed”) after receiving emergency medical services in hospitals across California. Jordan prevailed in California’s Second District Court of Appeal when he persuaded the Court of Appeal to reverse the trial court’s denial of class certification. Jordan argued the appeal and was the primary drafter of all appellate briefings. The Court of Appeal’s decision was the first decision in California certifying a class of patients who were victims of balance billing. Read the Court’s opinion here.

CURRENT LITIGATION

Jordan spearheads the representation of a class of life-insurance policyholders in a breach-of-contract case against a major life insurance company. Jordan recently defeated the life insurance company’s motion for summary judgment. Jordan argued the motion in court and drafted the plaintiffs’ opposition to the motion for summary judgment. Read the Court’s opinion here. Jordan also led the successful efforts to certify the class of policyholders, taking nearly all depositions in the case and leading the drafting of the motion for class certification.

Jordan also represents a patent owner asserting patent infringement claims against three major wireless carriers. Jordan has taken and defended numerous depositions, drafted dispositive motions, pretrial filings, and won all of his arguments in court.

BACKGROUND

Jordan joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Chief Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the Southern District of Texas and Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  He earned his J.D. cum laude from NYU School of Law.

Before law school, Jordan earned his master’s degree in philosophy with honors from Durham University and his undergraduate degree from Baylor University, where he majored in economics, philosophy, and political science.

At Baylor, Jordan was captain of the varsity tennis team. He was previously the number one ranked tennis player in the United States. Jordan is also a veteran high-altitude climber with seven expeditions (and counting) to the world’s greater mountain ranges.

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