Keller Rackauckas LLP is pleased to announce that Jay P. Barron has been selected as a “Rising Star” in the 2015 Southern California Rising Stars edition of Super Lawyers Magazine.  Super Lawyers is an attorney rating service that honors outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

The Super Lawyers Rising Stars list includes top attorneys who are age 40 or younger or have been in practice less than ten years. Super Lawyers selects attorneys through a multi-phase process including peer nominations and evaluations combined with individual research of the candidates. While up to 5 percent of the lawyers in a state are named to Super Lawyers, no more than 2.5 percent are named to Rising Stars.

Barron is an experienced business litigator whose practice focuses on complex litigation in state and federal courts, including contract and business tort disputes, insurance litigation, class actions, health care, false advertising and unfair competition, entertainment and trade secret litigation, and corporate governance disputes.

Barron has represented clients ranging from individual entrepreneurs to large publicly traded companies. His clients have included manufacturers, international corporations, nonprofits, health care providers, lawyers and investors.  Barron has significant experience in development and implementation of discovery plans, and has coordinated large electronic document collection and production.  He has extensive expertise in trial and pretrial motion practice, devising settlement and trial strategies, and preparing for and participating in mediations and arbitrations.

Barron received his J.D. in 2006 from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif (top ten percent of the class) and was an Articles Editor for the UCLA Entertainment Law Review.  He received his B.A. cum laude from Georgetown University in 2002.

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