Overview
Jon Dean focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation matters, including patent and trade secrets cases, antitrust actions, class actions, securities matters, unfair competition cases, employment actions, OSHA cases and healthcare matters. Jon is a former prosecutor, and has served as trial counsel on both civil and criminal cases.
Jon also represents companies and individuals in connection with civil and criminal government investigations, including investigations by the US Department of Justice, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and local law enforcement agencies.
Jon previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable A. Andrew Hauk, Senior Judge and Chief Judge Emeritus, of the US District Court for the Central District of California. He also previously worked for the Honorable Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Results
Some of Jon’s noteworthy cases include the following:
- Trial counsel for the defendant, the leading maker of office headsets, in a $600 million+ antitrust action between direct competitors; the jury deliberated for barely an hour before returning a complete defense verdict in favor of his client (US District Court for the District of Delaware (2017))
- Trial counsel for the defendant, a smartphone manufacturer, in a patent infringement action involving wireless mobile phone technology and network infrastructure patents in which the court found four out of the five patents-in-suit invalid or not infringed on summary judgment; the matter proceeded to trial on the remaining patent and after less than a day of deliberations the jury returned a complete defense verdict in favor of the Firm’s client (US District Court for the Northern District of Texas (2016))
- Trial counsel for plaintiff, a manufacturer of application delivery controllers, in a highly contentious patent infringement action between direct competitors; after a trial lasting nearly a month, the jury found in favor of the Firm’s client, rejected defendant’s claims of invalidity and found the defendant liable for willful infringement; an injunction was entered against the defendant (US District Court for the Northern District of California (2016))
- Trial counsel for a fabless chip designer in a trade secret misappropriation, patent inventorship, trademark and breach of contract action involving dual in-line memory modules; after less than two days of deliberations, the jury returned a complete defense verdict in favor of the Firm’s client on all eight trade secret claims, the two breach of contract claims and the patent inventorship claim, and awarded plaintiff a mere $2 in nominal damages on the two trademark claims (US District Court for the Northern District of California (2015))
- Trial counsel for a smartphone manufacturer in a patent infringement action involving wireless mobile phone technology; after deliberating for less than four hours, the jury returned a complete defense verdict in favor of the Firm’s client on both patent infringement and invalidity (US District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2014))
- Trial counsel on behalf of a smartphone manufacturer in a patent infringement action filed by a Mauritian non-practicing entity that claimed to have lawful ownership of the patents-in-suit through a trust set up by a major Taiwanese technology company; the Firm’s client contended that all of the patents-in-suit were not infringed and that the plaintiff had no standing to proceed with the lawsuit under US and Taiwanese trust laws; during the third week of trial, just before closing arguments, the plaintiff dismissed the case in its entirety and the matter was successfully resolved for the Firm’s client (US District Court for the Northern District of Texas (2013))
- Trial counsel for a major automotive parts distributor in connection with a felony criminal complaint asserting alleged willful violations of OSHA regulations; after a five-day preliminary hearing involving nearly a dozen fact and expert witnesses, all criminal charges against the Firm’s client were dismissed in their entirety in what was the first known court-ordered dismissal of criminal OSHA charges at the preliminary hearing stage by a judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court (California Superior Court, Los Angeles County (2012))
- Defense counsel for a major hospital system in a qui tam action involving 19 separate allegations of Medicare fraud and abuse, as well as claims of unlawful retaliation; the matter was resolved with the dismissal of all claims and a confidential settlement solely related to the non-fraud based retaliation claims (US District Court for the District of Idaho (2011))
- Trial counsel for a major marketing and distribution company in a successfully decertified class action case involving allegations of consumer fraud and violations of the California labor code; during the third week of trial, the 15 named plaintiffs dismissed their case in its entirety and received no award of damages (California Superior Court, Riverside County (2009))
- Defense counsel for the co-founder of a NASDAQ-traded broadband communications company on matters filed in federal and state courts involving alleged misdated stock options; after years of litigation in connection with the largest restatement issued to date relating to misdated options, Jon helped secure the historic dismissal of federal criminal charges, the dismissal of a related SEC action and the successful resolution of related class action and shareholder derivative matters on behalf of the Firm’s client (US District Court for the Central District of California (2006-2011))
- Trial counsel on behalf of a NASDAQ company on a high-profile matter involving alleged breaches of founding partnership agreements and related employment contracts; after a trial lasting more than two months, the jury returned a complete defense verdict in favor of his client (California Superior Court, Los Angeles County (2000))
Recognitions
- Benchmark Litigation, 2009-2019
- Legal 500 United States 2019, General Commercial and Patent Litigation
- Winner of U.C. Berkeley’s James Patterson McBaine Moot Court Competition (former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia presiding), 1996
Community
- McDermott Los Angeles Pro Bono Committee, current chair
- Western Justice Center, past member of the board of directors
- Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, past member of the board of directors
Credentials
Education
University of California – Berkeley School of Law, JD, 1996
University of California – Los Angeles, BA, 1992
Admissions
California
Courts / Agencies
US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitUS Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
US District Court for the District of Arizona
US District Court for the Central District of California
US District Court for the Northern District of California
US District Court for the Southern District of California
US District Court for the District of Colorado
US District Court for the District of Delaware
US District Court for the Middle District of Florida
US District Court for the District of Idaho
US District Court for the District of South Carolina
US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
US District Court for the Northern District of Texas
US District Court for the Western District of Texas
