Jack Wilson

In almost 20 years with the firm, Jack has successfully litigated high-profile complex commercial disputes in arbitration, mediation, and in federal and state trial and appellate courts across the country for plaintiffs and defendants.

Jack has managed and tried large commercial, products liability, and insurance cases. He has experience with matters involving contract disputes, products liability, merger-related litigation, financial fraud, and antitrust concerns. Jack advises investors and other businesses considering strategic decisions that may be impacted by pending or potential litigation or investigations targeting industries or companies As a former academic, Jack also advises students and faculty in administrative proceedings relating to academic and research misconduct, and violations of university policies.

Prior to joining the firm, Jack was a professor of philosophy at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is the President of The Pound Ridge Land Conservancy.

Jack’s recent engagements include:

• Representing medical device manufacturer in expansive litigation involving allegations of counterfeit materials in medical devices

• Defending insurer in class action and opt-out cost-of-insurance increase litigation in New York and federal courts

• Serving as trial counsel for a major multinational medical device manufacturer in litigation arising from the alleged breach of a merger agreement’s “no-shop” provision

• Representing a major pharmaceutical company in an arbitration concerning interpretation of a distribution agreement’s change-of-control provision

• Representing former stockholders of biopharmaceutical company in connection with post-sale milestone payments related to regulatory approval

• Serving as plaintiff's counsel representing an international investment bank in litigation related to the collapse of one of the country’s largest mortgage lenders and a billion-dollar mortgage-backed commercial paper facility

• Defending a major pharmaceutical company in litigation related to hormone replacement therapies

• Representing one of the largest national insurers in litigation related to the bank failures in Puerto Rico

• Defending NASCAR in antitrust litigation brought by Kentucky Speedway alleging monopolization of top-level stock car racing

Intellectual Property Rights in Agricultural Organisms: The Shock of the Not-So-New, Genetically Modified Food: Science, Religion, and Morality, Michael Ruse and David Castle (eds.) Prometheus Press (2002).

Patenting Organisms: Intellectual Property Law Meets Biology, Who Owns Life?, David Magnus (ed.) Prometheus Press (2002)

No Patents for Semantic Information: A Reply to Rebecca Eisenberg, American Journal of Bioethics 2 (2002)

Biotechnology Intellectual Property Rights—Bioethical Issues, Encyclopedia of Life Science, Nature Publishing Group (2001)

Biological Individuality: The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities, Cambridge University Press (1999)