Biography
Jack has served as trial counsel in multiple bench and jury trials in state and federal courts around the United States, including a 10-week jury trial in New Jersey state court. He has significant experience at every phase of litigation. This includes: strategizing and coordinating with clients to develop overall litigation strategy, and with expert witnesses to develop expert testimony; preparing, examining, and defending expert and fact witnesses – including causation, damages, toxicological, epidemiological, and industry experts, as well as corporate representatives – for and during deposition and trial testimony; drafting and arguing key motions; and managing discovery.
Some of Jack’s notable representative experience includes:
- Representing Johnson & Johnson in talc-related matters, including several trials, resulting in a unanimous defense verdict, voluntary dismissal of claims, and favorable outcomes at trial and appeal, as well as in its talc supplier’s bankruptcy.
- Representing a technology company in the Astroworld litigation, pending in a Texas state court MDL, involving thousands of claims for wrongful death and personal injury arising out of a Travis Scott concert.
- Representing an individual defendant against RICO claims alleging a conspiracy to racially discriminate in the allocation of state pension funds to investment managers.
- Representing a consumer products company against claims that its laundry detergents, shampoos, soaps, and other products contaminated groundwater with 1,4-dioxane, resulting in a favorable settlement following expert discovery.
- Representing Altria in a patent infringement case involving the best-selling e-vapor product, securing a unanimous plaintiff jury verdict for $95 million in pre-judgment damages and potentially more than $1 billion in future royalties.
- Representing Frontier Communications in a False Claims Act case seeking hundreds of millions in damages relating to a fiber optic cable contract with the federal government, resulting in favorable settlement on eve of jury selection.
- Representing Pacific Gas and Electric and Takata Holdings in their chapter 11 proceedings.
Jack also has an active pro bono practice. For example, he was a key member of the Weil team that secured a complete trial victory for the respondent in a Hague Convention proceeding brought in the Southern District of New York, where Jack cross-examined the petitioner’s only expert witness. In another Hague Convention proceeding, brought in the Western District of Missouri, Jack and the Weil team secured another complete defense victory; the Court dismissed the petition following a trial on the issue of habitual residence.
Jack received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where he was an Articles Editor for the Brooklyn Law Review and inducted into the Order of Barristers. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Boston College. He has repeatedly been recognized among the “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch” for Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, by The Best Lawyers in America.