Dennis Neil Jones

Dennis Neil Jones, a partner in the Ventura-based law firm of Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones & Feingold, L.L.P., has been practicing insurance coverage and other civil litigation for 30 years. During that time, he has acted as coverage counsel for insurers, policyholders and plaintiffs. Mr. Jones has also served as a retained expert witness on insurance coverage, regulatory and standard of care issues. Retired Judges have retained him as an independent coverage expert in large construction defect mediations. He is a civil trial attorney who has recovered more than $50 million for his clients.

Mr. Jones is one of the premiere insurance coverage lawyers in the State, having been named a Southern California “Super Lawyer” in the field of insurance coverage seven out of the last eight years by Law & Politics signifying that he is in the top 5% of all attorneys, based upon voting by his peers. He is an active member of the California and Nevada Bar Associations, the Ventura County Bar Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California, the Nevada Justice Association and the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association, where he served as President in 2008. Mr. Jones also serves on the Boards of Directors for the Ojai Community Hospital Foundation, the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Indoor Air Quality Association and the Ojai Education Foundation (advisory member). Mr. Jones civic involvement also includes Friends of the South Bay Youth Project, Board Member (1995-1999), Manhattan Beach Education Foundation, Board Member (1997-1999), and the Rotary Club of Ojai West (2000 – present).

Mr. Jones graduated with honors from the University of Southern California in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism/Public Relations. After receiving a USC Graduate Fellowship and a William Randolph Hearst Foundation National Journalism Award, he obtained a Masters Degree in Public Administration and a Certificate in Judicial Administration in 1978. Mr. Jones worked in the field of Court Administration from 1977 to 1980 for the District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was the Director of the Clark County Jail Overcrowding Project, founded a Pretrial Services agency and testified as an expert witness in a Federal class action jail overcrowding trial. He then matriculated to the University of San Diego School of Law on a full WICHE Fellowship, graduating in 1983. Upon his admission to the California and Nevada Bars, Mr. Jones joined the Los Angeles branch of a large, national law firm. After practicing in Los Angeles for sixteen years, he formed a law partnership now known as Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones & Feingold, L.L.P., in Ventura, California.