Jeremy B. Rosen

Attorney, Horvitz & Levy LLP

Jeremy RosenJeremy Rosen joined the firm in 2001 and became a partner in 2008. Mr. Rosen has been lead appellate counsel in dozens of appeals in a wide variety of areas (his name currently appears on more than 25 published opinions and many more unpublished opinions and he has presented more than 25 appellate oral arguments, including to the Ninth Circuit, California Supreme Court, and five of the six appellate districts in the California Court of Appeal). In particular, Mr. Rosen has developed an expertise in the First Amendment, California’s anti-SLAPP statute, the law of defamation, and the application of the litigation privilege. Mr. Rosen has been invited to speak on these and other topics at numerous conferences.

Mr. Rosen has briefed numerous cases in the California Supreme Court, arguing six of them. His cases in the Supreme Court have involved important issues regarding the scope of California’s anti-SLAPP statute, the Unruh Act, the Statute of Frauds, the Uniform Single Publication Act, the protection afforded to commercial speech, the application of the First Amendment to intra-church property disputes, the enforceability of arbitration clauses, the scope of public employee whistleblower protection, and the application of the primary assumption of risk doctrine.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Rosen was a Litigation Associate with Munger, Tolles & Olson. He also held judicial clerkships with the Hon. Ferdinand F. Fernandez, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., U.S. District Court, Central District of California.

Mr. Rosen is the immediate past president of the Los Angeles Lawyer’s Division of the Federalist Society, and currently serves as Chair of its Advisory Board. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine Law School and the Phillips Graduate Institute. In 2007, the Los Angeles & San Francisco Daily Journal honored Mr. Rosen by naming him to its “20 to Watch Under 40” list of California attorneys. He has also been named a California Super Lawyer Rising Star in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Mr. Rosen received his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and his Juris Doctor and L.L.M. from Duke University School of Law, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal.


Education

Duke University School of Law
J.D. and L.L.M. in International and Comparative Law, Order of the Coif, 1997

Cornell University
B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1993

Publications

California 2010: The Courts and the Economy
White Paper on the California Supreme Court
October 13, 2010
California’s 17200 - Its Use and Abuse - Event Audio/Video
San Diego Lawyers Chapter and State Courts
May 19, 2010
The Independent Counsel Act: An Unconstitutional Delegation of Power of Judges
Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1999
July 1, 1999