If you are looking at this website, you probably are in need of serious legal help. And you probably are trying to evaluate who can actually help you, who can actually stand up to the company or person that has bullied you, harassed you, discriminated against you, retaliated against you, breached your contract, or in some other way abused power.
I have devoted the last 23 years of my professional life to successfully helping people like you.
In order to effectively provide that help, I have had to obtain a great deal of formal education, and then accumulate a large amount of professional experience. That experience includes beginning my career at one of the largest defense firms in the world, allowing me to see how the other side operates, and then working at several of the most successful plaintiffs’ class action firms in the country before opening my own firm.
What I mainly learned at all of these law firms was the power of relentlessness. The winners in cases never stop working for their clients, even when things look bleak. The losers in cases say “that’s good enough” when the case required a great effort to succeed, not just a good effort.
I also learned from many excellent attorneys the necessity for extreme attention to detail, beginning with the written word. A tremendous amount of complex civil litigation depends on the quality of legal briefs and other written documents. Judges, courts, arbitrators, and mediators are, unfortunately, inundated with a large volume of poorly written legal briefs. The authors of such briefs often mistake vitriol and name-calling as a substitute for the facts.
If you are a plaintiff in a case, and I am your attorney, we need to maximize our credibility. Why? A plaintiff has the “burden of proof” in cases. That means that we have to be more persuasive than the other side on all of the key points. If it’s a tie, we lose.
Everything we do on the plaintiff’s side, from day one through the end of a case, must strengthen and reinforce our credibility. I have seen the importance of that over and over again in 23 years, and will put that knowledge to work for you if I am your attorney.
I frequently partner with other law firms and attorneys on cases, to ensure that my clients have the precise legal team that we need for success.
Below is a brief summary of my educational and professional background, and the “Representative Matters” section of this website provides specifics on various cases.
Professional Experience
Law Offices of Jon T. King, Walnut Creek, CA, (6/16 - present)
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Berkeley, CA (4/13 - 6/13)
Law Offices of Jon T. King, Walnut Creek, CA (10/12 - 4/13)
Hausfeld LLP, San Francisco, CA (11/8 - 10/12)
Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC, San Francisco, CA (1/08 - 11/08)
The Furth Firm LLP, San Francisco, CA (7/00 - 1/08)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, CA (8/99 - 7/00)
Education
University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)
J.D., 1999, cum laude
Member, Order of the Coif (top 10% of class)
Editor-in-Chief, Hastings Law Journal, 1998-99
Judicial Extern, San Francisco Superior Court, Judge John E. Munter, 1997
Santa Clara University
B.S., Political Science, 1992 (honors in Political Science)
