Jason Anderson

When Jason Anderson takes control of the fallout from a contentious real estate deal or an adversarial dispute regarding the ownership and management of a company, limited liability company or partnership, he looks beyond the litigation that will resolve those matters in the short term. Jason views each case from the lens of a business advisor. He protects his clients not only from current threats, but from the risk of economic and reputational damage caused by hasty litigation tactics that can derail a company’s long-term strategic goals.

More than 25 years of trial and arbitration experience have earned Jason a reputation as an aggressive, tough and strategic litigator. But for Jason, winning at trial is not motivation to take every case to trial. His best outcomes are those that save businesses money and distraction and ensure long-term growth. Jason helps C-suite executives, board members, in-house counsel, business owners and entrepreneurs assess the value of their business disputes within the company’s larger business strategy. For many clients, success means avoiding costly litigation through alternative dispute resolution techniques that preserve the key vendor partnerships and employee relationships his clients need to grow.

Jason’s litigation experience also includes numerous, unfair competition and false advertising, defamation, trademark infringement, and consumer class actions. When litigation cannot be avoided, he minimizes time and cost through highly responsive communication, confirmed expectations and a laser focus on the key aspects of the case mostly likely to resolve the matter with minimal business interruption for his client.

Prior to re-joining Stradling, Jason was a partner in Bingham’s Orange County office.

Some highlights of his career include the following cases:

Defended a manufacturer of consumer products in several related consumer class actions in multi-state litigation alleging false and misleading advertising.

Resolved a highly contentious real estate ownership, management, and breach of fiduciary duty claims arising out family trusts.

Defended a company and its owner in a 3.5-month jury trial against claims stemming from the sale of a business.

Employed pre-trial motions and creative due diligence to quickly end trademark infringement, business disparagement, and breach of fiduciary duty claims between owners and investors in a cannabis business.

Experience

Secured a full victory in a business divorce/real estate case which will have major implications in other, ongoing disputes in a highly profitable, family business in Orange County. At issue in the dispute was whether our client or another family member is the General Partner of a real estate partnership which owns and manages industrial property leased to the business.  As a result of presenting substantial evidence that family members had not followed partnership and corporate formalities in terms of noticing meetings, voting records, and maintaining meeting minutes, the judge found our adversary had abandoned and waived her role as a General Partner, was estopped from now claiming she was a General Partner, and voided a bogus, one-sided commercial lease she and other siblings had caused the real estate partnership to enter into with the company.  Our client was also awarded the attorney’s fees and costs he incurred in this arbitration.
We secured a complete victory for a publicly traded designer and distributor of home improvement and construction products, following a two week jury trial.  After several of the plaintiff’s claims were dismissed pursuant to a motion for directed verdict following presentation of the evidence, the jury was asked to decide whether the CEO orally promised to give plaintiff 7% percent of the outstanding shares of the company two years before its IPO as a reward for plaintiff’s efforts in helping to find investors for the company and for his efforts on what turned out to be a failed “rugged” mobile phone project.  Although the plaintiff presented five witnesses who appeared at trial and testified under oath that they heard the CEO of the company represent to potential investors in pitch meetings attended by plaintiff that plaintiff was a “7% percent owner” of the company, we convinced the jury otherwise, resulting in a complete victory for our client.    
Represented the founder of a cannabis company, which was sold to a publicly traded company in Canada, in a litigation matter in which he asserted claims of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the sale of the company. Employed pre-trial motions and creative due diligence to quickly resolve the dispute.
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Credentials

Education
  • Southern Methodist University, J.D., cum laude, 1994
  • University of San Diego, B.A., 1991
  • Orange County Bar Association
  • Federal Bar Association
  • Association of Business Trial Lawyers
  • California
  • Central District, CA
  • Northern District, CA
  • Southern District, CA
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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