Raymond H. Sheen (Ray)
Partner
San Francisco
Tel: 1.415.875.5717
Fax: 1.415.875.5700
Email:
rsheen@jonesday.com
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Ray Sheen represents policyholders in complex insurance coverage disputes, and he has worked on an array of matters — often for technology companies — involving general liability, errors and omissions, and directors and officers (D&O) policies. He also has extensive experience defending product liability and other consumer class actions, and examples of his experience includes representation of:
• PG&E in an insurance coverage lawsuit filed by AIG affiliates, which sought reimbursement of $24 million in payments made to settle property damage claims arising out of a wildland fire in Sonoma County, California. Ray worked with the trial team in a successful 7-week jury trial, at which the jury returned a verdict in PG&E's favor.
• Adobe in litigation to recover defense and indemnification costs for liabilities in editable font embedding, copyright-related, and end-user license agreement claims and litigation.
• Sony Computer Entertainment America in insurance coverage litigation for defense and indemnity in class action lawsuits alleging damages and defects in connection with the Playstation® and Playstation2®.
• TransUnion, a major credit reporting bureau, against Lloyd's of London in litigation seeking insurance coverage for nationwide consumer class action disputes relating to alleged privacy violations.
• Behr Process Corporation (and its parent corporation, Masco) in putative class action lawsuits filed in eight states (including California, Illinois, and New York) alleging that exterior wood coatings failed to retard mildew growth and ultraviolet light degradation (also represented Behr Process in related insurance coverage litigation).
• Johns Manville Corporation in putative national class action products liability litigation involving roofing products.
• PG&E in a federal lawsuit seeking to compel California to allow PG&E to recover in excess of $9 billion in wholesale electricity costs incurred during the 2000-2001 Western energy crisis.
Admitted
California and U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California
Education
Stanford University (J.D. 1997; Note Editor, Stanford Law Review); Amherst College (B.A. summa cum laude 1992)
Clerkship
Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Spencer Letts, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (1997-1998) and externship with the Honorable Thelton E. Henderson, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (Summer 1995)