In 2011, Jon received California Lawyer magazine's "Attorney of the Year" (CLAY) award and was also named one of the Recorder's "Attorneys of the Year" for his work on the Al-Haramain case. In 2010, he was featured as one of ten "Lawyers Who Helped Shape a Decade" in the Daily Journal, which also named him one of California's top 100 lawyers in 2008. He has been selected in the field of appellate law for inclusion in the 2011 and 2012 editions of "Best Lawyers in America," which also named him "Appellate Lawyer of the Year" for Oakland, California. He regularly appears on the list of the top 100 Northern California "Super Lawyers."
Jon is also the author of The Right vs. The Right to Die, a nonfiction account of the Terri Schiavo case, in which he participated as one of the attorneys representing Michael Schiavo.
Jon teaches California Appellate Process at Hastings College of the Law and has served as a court-appointed mediator for the First Appellate District's appellate mediation program. He received his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law, where he was Associate Editor of the Hastings Law Journal and graduated Order of the Coif. His Bachelor of Arts is from the University of California at Irvine.
Publications
Principal Author, California Practice Guide: Civil Appeals and Writs(The Rutter Group 1989; updated annually)
Author, Twelve Prose Poems by Roger J. Traynor (With a Nod to Charles Baudelaire) (2008) 9 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 101
Author, Suing George W. Bush: A bizarre and troubling tale (July 9, 2008) Salon.com
Author, Schiavo on the cutting edge: functional brain imaging and its impact on surrogate end-of-life decision-making (2008) 1 Neuroethics 75.
Author, The Right vs. The Right to Die (2006) [nonfiction account of the Terri Schiavo case]
Co-Author, Bush v. Schiavo and the Separation of Powers: Why a State Legislature Cannot Empower a Governor to Order Medical Treatment When There is a Final Court Judgment That the Patient Would Not Want It, (2005) 7 J.L. & Soc. Challenges 81
Co-Author, Unmasking “crack_smoking_jesus”: Do Internet Service Providers Have a Tarasoff Duty to Divulge the Identity of a Subscriber who is Making Death Threats? (2003) 25 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Comm/Ent) 683
Co-Author, Legal implications of the Wendland case for end-of-life decision making (2002) 176 Western Journal of Medicine 124
Co-Author, The Courts and the News Media (California Judges Association 7th ed. 2002) Chapter 6, Legal Research
Editor-in-Chief, Cal. Practice Guide: Civil Procedure Bulletin (The Rutter Group 1991-1993)
Action Guide: Handling Civil Appeals (1st ed. Cont.Ed.Bar 1985)
Remittitur in California Civil Appellate Practice (2d ed. Cont.Ed.Bar 1985)
Sanctions on Appeal: A Survey and a Proposal for Computation Guidelines (1985) 20 U.S.F. L. Rev. 13
Contributing Editor (appellate practice), Civil Litigation Reporter (Cont.Ed.Bar 1983-1989)
1981-1984 Supplements to California Civil Appellate Practice (Cont.Ed.Bar 1966)
Lugosi v. Universal Pictures: Descent of the Right of Publicity (1978) 28 Hastings L. J. 751
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