Jason is a commercial litigator with varied experience in jurisdictions throughout the United States. He often focuses his litigation practice on product liability, mass tort, catastrophic injury and wrongful death defense, real estate disputes and ERISA matters.

In the personal-injury space, he regularly defends businesses facing high-value claims that their products are defective and cause injury or death. For many years, he has served as national counsel to an international food flavoring manufacturer facing such claims.

Jason’s broad real estate litigation practice extends from lease disputes to land use issues to eminent domain, in which Jason has garnered substantial experience representing public utilities in hundreds of appropriation proceedings throughout Ohio and Indiana. Jason has tried many of these cases to court and juries and regularly presents at continuing legal education conferences regarding strategies and developments in eminent domain law.

Jason represents employee benefit plans, sponsors, and administrators in ERISA litigation, including long-term disability, medical claim, executive severance and claw-back cases. He also serves as outside general counsel to local businesses and as local counsel for other law firms in litigation throughout Ohio.

Prior to joining Porter Wright, Jason worked at a Chicago-based private equity firm, where he sourced and structured middle market acquisitions in the manufacturing and distribution sectors.

During law school, Jason was a teaching assistant and an editor on the Capital University Law Review, in which his note on hydraulic fracturing was published. He also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and to the Honorable Gregory L. Frost (ret.) of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.