Practice Focus

Complex Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Media

Experience

Jeff has represented clients as diverse as a telecommunications utility and a two-person lumber trading company in mediation, arbitration, and before state, federal and regulatory tribunals. He was an attorney with both Perkins Coie, and Tonkon Torp, in Portland, Oregon, where he practiced litigation and business law. Jeff also held the position of Director of Legal Product Development at Brand Fidelity, Inc., an Internet startup.

Since joining Orr & Reno in 2001, Jeff has focused his practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation, trademark and trade dress infringement, and media law. His experiences include:

• Defending a Jordanian bank in a civil forfeiture action filed under new provisions of the U.S.A. Patriot Act
• Successfully representing a New Hampshire company in a trade dress infringement case
• Representing the New Hampshire General Court in a right-to-know and constitutional access dispute
• Successfully representing a group of regional and national broadcasters and newspapers in a landmark effort to gain access to the courtroom for video and still cameras.
  Petition of WMUR Channel 9 7 148 N.H. 644 (2002)
• Defending a web design and hosting company in a dispute with its internet service provider

Practice Areas

• Commercial Litigation
• Intellectual Property and Technology
• Litigation
• Media and First Amendment

Professional Activities

Board of Directors, Concord Boys and Girls Club

Honors and Distinctions

Voted as a Rising Star for intellectual property law by New Hampshire attorneys, in an online poll conducted by New Hampshire Magazine, October 2004.

Bar Admissions

Jeff is admitted to practice in the state courts of New Hampshire and Oregon, the Federal District Courts in New Hampshire and Oregon, and the Federal and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Education

Bowdoin College, B.A., magna cum laude, Philosophy, 1989; New York University Law School, J.D., 1994

Publications

"Expert Disclosures After the Exchange of Initial Reports" as published in New Hampshire Bar News, August 12, 2005.

Co-authored with James P. Bassett, “The Reporter's Privilege in New Hampshire,” a chapter in The Reporter's Privilege Compendium: A Guide to State and Federal Law Concerning News Media Subpoenas, published by The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2002.