Jaynee R. Mathis

Overview

Jaynee Mathis is an experienced trial attorney and member of the firm’s General Liability, Product Liability, and Transportation Law Practice Groups. She focuses her practice on a variety of matters involving personal injury, premises liability, product liability, and tribal law in State, Federal, and Tribal Courts.

Ms. Mathis is an experienced litigator who thoughtfully analyzes and prepares each case as if it’s going to trial while at the same time aggressively defending her clients to achieve the most desirable outcomes and resolution.

Ms. Mathis joined Haight Brown & Bonesteel as a summer associate in 2019 and continued as a law clerk throughout her last year of law school. She is experienced in all phases of State and Federal litigation, including written discovery; law and motion; depositions; arbitrations; mediations; arguing dispositive motions before the court; settlement negotiations; and trial.

Further, Ms. Mathis regularly defends California tribal governments in a broad range of civil litigation matters. She zealously upholds her clients’ sovereign immunity, quashing or dismissing numerous lawsuits improperly filed in State, Federal, and Tribal Courts through her ardent and proven motion practice and oral advocacy.

Ms. Mathis graduated cum laude from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism, which gives Ms. Mathis a unique skillset in interacting with clients, opposing counsel, and witnesses. Thereafter, Ms. Mathis graduated magna cum laude from Southwestern Law School while participating in Law Review, Moot Court, and the school’s Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic.

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