Jason A. Yurasek is a litigation partner in the firm's San Francisco office. His experience covers a wide array of commercial litigation matters, including antitrust, business torts, and intellectual property and trademark litigation, as well as matters involving complex state and federal class actions. He has both prosecuted and defended claims on behalf of clients involving cutting-edge antitrust issues, including cross-over issues related to antitrust and intellectual property. Mr. Yurasek's intellectual property practice involves patent, trade secret and trademark litigation and he has vigorously prosecuted intellectual property rights on behalf of clients.
Mr. Yurasek's electronic discovery experience includes having:
- Managed the electronic discovery issues in the PeopleSoft/Oracle business tort litigation in California (a case with over 10 million pages of electronic documents) and handled related court appearances
- Organized, compiled materials, moderated and participated in the Continuing Education of the Bar's (CEB) and the State Bar of California's all-day conference entitled ""E-Discovery"" in both Sacramento and San Francisco, which covered E-discovery topics such as the new federal rules, ethics, views from the bench and vendor selection strategies
- Been a guest speaker in the CEB program, ""E-Discovery Sanctions, Spoliation and Malpractice: Are Lawyers Meeting the Standard of Care?""
- Co-Authored the report ""E-Discovery: The Future Is Now"" (Summer 2004 ABTL Report)
- Been a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1)
- Been a member of The Sedona Conference Working Sub-Group on Email Archiving
In addition to his work for clients, Mr. Yurasek has participated in the Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights' Educating For Justice Program, where lawyers teach high school students about their legal rights. He has also taught in the San Francisco Public Schools for the Bar Association of San Francisco's Lawyers in School program.
For the last several years, Mr. Yurasek has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, on topics ranging from legal writing and research to appellate advocacy.
