Jason’s practice focuses on helping clients manage complex e-discovery issues, including litigation readiness, preservation obligations, analytic document review technologies, reasonable and proportional discovery efforts, deposition preparation and discovery sanctions.
A career litigator who has handled all aspects of a case from inception to trial, Jason has advised Fortune 100 clients concerning electronic and document discovery in the context of antitrust litigation, complex commercial litigation, health care litigation, product liability litigation, and regulatory and government investigations. He excels in leveraging advanced analytics and review technologies-including machine learning-based Technology Assisted Review and Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence-to reduce his clients’ e-discovery burden, maximize efficiency and reduce error, as well as helping clients navigate complex issues related to data preservation and spoliation sanctions.
Jason also has a strong interest in pro bono representation and has assisted clients in a variety of matters, including free speech and whistleblower protection litigation, free exercise litigation, litigation over incarceration conditions, and counseling elderly clients on end-of-life and living will planning.
Representative Matters
Jasons’ representative matters include the following:
Represented a multinational medical device and nutrition manufacturer in connection with federal multidistrict litigation and hundreds of concurrent state actions involving mass tort and manufacturing defect claims. Managed all aspects of extensive document discovery, including application of complex data analytics and Technology Assisted Review, successfully resisted multiple motions to compel, and successfully resisted multiple privilege log challenges.
Represented a telecommunications company in successfully opposing a motion for spoliation sanctions stemming from the loss of email data, including researching and coordinating recovery of replacement data, researching and drafting briefs, and preparing multiple witnesses for deposition.
Represented a multinational auto maker in connection with multiple nationwide product liability class actions concerning 90% of all vehicles manufactured and marketed by the maker in the last 15 years. Managed all aspects of document discovery.
Represented a consumer technology manufacturer in connection with multiple concurrent state subpoenas and a federal multidistrict litigation involving mass tort and false advertising claims.
Supervised extensive document preservation, collection, review, logging, and production activities, including through use of a first-of-its-kind solution for discovery of Slack messages and channels.
Represented a multinational pharmaceutical company in connection with a $1 billion multi-district product liability litigation. Managed all aspects of extensive document discovery, including application of complex data analytics and Technology Assisted Review, and researched and drafted a successful opposition to a motion for discovery sanctions and a first-party motion for sanctions.
Represented a software company and a dozen indemnified partners in connection with a Department of Justice antitrust investigative demand. Managed all aspects of document preservation and discovery for all 13 clients concurrently, including application of complex data analytics, development of search terms, and collection and production of novel data sources.
Advised a national industry representative association subject to several multi-decade legal holds with the defensible disposition of legacy data.
Advised a European energy company concerning compliance with the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation in connection with a U.S. government investigation, including through implementation of automated pseudo-anonymization technology.
Presentations and Publications
The Struggle to Achieve Proportionality Under Rule 26(b)(1), The Federal Judge’s Guide to Discovery, 4th Ed., Electronic Discovery Institute, 2024.
Panelist, Won’t Someone Rid Me of this Meddlesome Privilege Review, Georgetown Law Advanced eDiscovery Institute, November 2024.
Moderator, Hot Topics in Electronic Discovery 2024: What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know, Practising Law Institute, September 2024.
Possession, Custody, or Control, The Sedona Conference Commentary on Rule 34 and Rule 45, 25 Sedona Conf., J. 1, Brainstorming Group, August 2024.
Co-author, eDiscovery Advantage, Volume 6, Issue 1, Previous Firm Newsletter, August 2024.
Co-author, 2023 E-Discovery Case Law Year in Review, Client Alert, January 29, 2024.
Lead Editor, E-Discovery Case Law Update: Georgetown AEDI Special Edition, Previous Firm Publication, November 2023.
Panelist, Preservation in an Ever-Changing World, EDI Leadership Summit, October 2023.
Speaker, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp – Oh My – Discovery of Newer Data Types, Previous Firm Webinar, June 2023.
Panelist, On the Cutting Edge of Short Message Review: Slicing, Search, Review, and More, Masters Conference DC, May 2023.
Co-author, 2022 eDiscovery Case Law Year In Review, Client Alert, February 14, 2023.
Panelist, How Lawyers and In-House Counsel Leverage Technology, Masters Conference DC, October 2019.
Panelist, Ick, Math! Ensuring Production Quality, Ing3nious Northeast Regional Information Governance Retreat, June 2019.
Media Coverage
Quoted, AEDI Takeaways: Demystifying Hype, Changing Caselaw & Harvey ’s CEO Talks State of Industry, Law.com, November 18, 2024.