About Jesse Creed

Jesse Creed is a partner and trial attorney with Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP and focuses his practice on high-stakes matters, including complex and catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, sexual abuse, and product liability cases.

Licensed in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii, he currently serves in a leadership role as Individual Plaintiffs Co-Liaison Counsel in the Maui Fires litigation and as Liaison Counsel in the Social Media Addiction Cases.

A three-time recipient of the distinguished California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award, Mr. Creed is recognized among the 2025 Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal and named to the Los Angeles Business Journal's Leaders of Influence: Thriving in Their 40s, a list of the region's most influential professionals. He is also named among the Lawdragon 500 list of Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers and to the list of Southern California Super Lawyers, as well as selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America since 2022. Prior to those recognitions, Mr. Creed has been listed previously among the Super Lawyers Up-and-Coming 100 and on the list Rising Stars since 2019.

After graduating from Princeton University summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Creed graduated law school from Columbia Law School in New York City, where he was a James Kent scholar all three years (top 1-3% of his class) and earned prizes for achieving the highest marks in constitutional law and property. He taught constitutional law to first-year students, served on the Columbia Law Review, and was a research assistant to former Commissioner of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Harvey Goldschmid.

Following law school, Mr. Creed had the honor of serving as a law clerk to Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Judge Diana Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Creed used to work at Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP before deciding to represent the "little guy."

Proven verdicts and settlements

$59.25 millionVerdict

A Los Angeles County jury found Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting Donna Motsinger in 1972 and awarded her $59.25 million, including $40 million in punitive damages, the largest civil judgment Cosby has faced.

Los Angeles, CA (LA County Superior Court) · 2026Sexual AbuseRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Columbia Law School
J.D.
Princeton University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California
State Bar of Nevada
State Bar of Arizona
State Bar of Hawaii

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$47.41 million · Road Rage Chase That Killed Torrance Teen Ends in $61.7 Million Jury Verdict
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$122.5 Million Settlement for 124 Survivors of Police Activities League Volunteer Eric Uller
West Coast Trial Lawyers
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$13.1 million · Federal Jury Awards $13.1 Million to Parents of Man Shot in the Back by Riverside County Deputy
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Wilshire Law Firm
$35.3 Million Verdict for 81-Year-Old Backseat Passenger Rear-Ended by Tractor-Trailer on the 10 Freeway
Wisner Baum LLP
Wisner Baum LLP
$56.01 million · $1.04 Billion Roundup Verdict for Livermore Retiree With Brain Lymphoma

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.