JOHN M. PIERCE

John M. Pierce is a trial lawyer, founder and Managing Partner of John Pierce Law. He was described by Benchmark Plaintiff Litigation 2012 as "one of the most esteemed jury trial lawyers" at the world's largest business litigation law firm, and The Legal 500 United States 2015 praised his "real trial presence." In 2008, he won two multi-million dollar jury verdicts within a span of two months, including the 67th highest jury verdict in the United States in 2008 as determined by the VerdictSearch Top 100 list, as well as a victory in a major film financing trial in Los Angeles featured in The Hollywood Reporter.

John is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Prior to law school, John was an M1A1 Abrams tank platoon leader in the U.S. Army’s 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He attended the Army’s Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia and participated in two rotations at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.

Prior to founding JPL, John was a partner in commercial litigation at the #1 ranked business litigation law firm in the United States, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP and was a partner in commercial litigation in the #1 ranked law firm overall in Southern California, Latham & Watkins LLP. He also served as co-Global Practice Area Leader for Litigation and Dispute Resolution at K&L Gates LLP. In 2017, he founded Pierce Bainbridge, which became one of the fastest growing law firms in history with a litigation portfolio valued at nearly $700 million and consummated a pioneering litigation funding transaction that was one of the largest ever.

During most of his career, John has often been retained by major corporations and financial institutions in the most difficult, high-profile bet-the-company business disputes. He has successfully represented clients in complex disputes involving, among others, hedge funds, private equity, structured finance, real estate finance, insurance coverage, intellectual property, government contracts, and more.

On behalf of individual and institutional clients suing as plaintiffs, John has obtained verdicts, pre-trial judgments and settlements amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. On behalf of corporate defendants, he has obtained verdicts, pre-trial judgments, and settlements successfully defending over a billion dollars in claims.

During the turbulent times following the 2016 Presidential election, John has represented and fought for numerous clients in the middle of some of the most controversial and Constitutionally-significant cases and controversies in the nation under the most difficult and media-intensive circumstances. These clients have included Dr. Carter Page, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, George Papadopoulos, Tulsi Gabbard, Kyle Rittenhouse and over twenty defendants in connection with the events at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Seeing the growing trends of government overreach, big-tech tyranny and foreign infiltration beginning to seriously threaten the Constitutional and civil liberties of regular, individual Americans, John founded the National Constitutional Law Union (the “NCLU”) to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. The NCLU’s fundamental mission over time is to build nation-wide team of litigators and staff to protect the rights of all American citizens and help ensure the survival of the United States Constitution and its founding principles for generations to come.