Attorney Profile

Jacqueline Bruce Chinery

Partner

Jacqueline Bruce Chinery has over 20 years of experience representing multinational corporations and auto manufacturers and distributors in consumer, fraud and products liability actions, trade secrets litigation, general business litigation, insurance coverage, construction, toxic tort and environmental matters in both United States federal and state courts and in arbitration.

Ms. Bruce Chinery has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation including analyzing claims for cost-efficient disposition, handling discovery disputes, conducting fact and expert depositions, arguing substantive Motions, and as lead trial counsel in jury trials throughout Southern California. Before joining the firm, Ms. Bruce Chinery was an associate at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.

  • Bar Admissions
    • California (January 1997)
  • Court Admissions
    • United States Court of Appeals – 9th Circuit
    • United States District Court for the Central District of California
    • United States District Court for the Southern District of California
  • Professional Experience
    • Lehrman, Villegas, Chinery & Douglas, LLP, Los Angeles, California
      Partner, April 2021 – Present
    • Lehrman Law Group, Los Angeles, California
      Senior Associate, May 2003 – March 2021
    • Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Los Angeles, California
      Associate, September 1996 – July 2002