Team
Biography
D. Mark Jackson has been with the firm since 2005 and an equity partner since 2009.
Mark is an experienced trial lawyer and honored to be in the courtroom trying cases before juries.
Mark also practices civil appeals and writs and has written and contributed to briefs on such issues as federal preemption, anti-SLAPP, choice of law, and on appeals from jury verdicts. Mark has delivered oral argument before the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District.
His litigation background allows him to counsel individuals and businesses on a variety of legal issues.
As a former technology manager, Mark is also a tech “enthusiast.” He counsels clients on e-discovery, data governance, and privacy issues. He writes about technology at his blog MachineLaw.com. He proudly uses his iPad and Mac for trials and throughout the litigation process.
He is a practitioner of Getting Things Done (GTD) and a student of Lean.
Mark was recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in 2009 and 2010.
He represents clients in commercial litigation, product liability, toxic torts, trade secrets, and fire litigation. His product liability practice includes medical devices, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor fabrication tools, consumer products, motor vehicles, agricultural products, construction materials, respiratory protection equipment, and industrial machinery. His toxic tort practice includes benzene and other petroleum hydrocarbons, mold, talc, asbestos, and silica.
Mark earned his law degree from the College of William & Mary. He received a B.A. from Willamette University, where he completed the pre-medicine program, consisting of four years of hard science, including physics, chemistry, and biology, as well as mathematics and computer science coursework.
Before litigating, Mark clerked for two years at the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges, assisting the Honorable Paul Mapes in San Francisco and Chief Judge Daniel Sarno in Newport News, Virginia. Before that, Mark practiced for almost two years at the Peninsula Legal Aid Clinic.
He regularly presents at in-house events, Perrin Conferences, and HarrisMartin. His articles and op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal, Virginia Poverty Law Journal, FindLaw’s Writ, Lean Blog, The Daily Journal, and ABA’s Law Technology Today.
Practice Areas
- Product Liability
- Toxic Tort
- Commercial Litigation
- General Liability
- Civil Appeals and Writs
Education
- The College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia
- J.D.
- Willamette University
- B.A.
- Major: Pre-Medicine, Physics,Chemistry,Biology,Mathematics and Computer Science
Honors
- Mark was recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyers " Rising Star"
Published Works
- “No One Has Been Paying Attention for a While Now: What Recent Experiences with Remote Juries Tell Us About Our Distracted World,” – The Daily Journal, September 11, 2020.
- “How Legal Professionals Must Lead in the Age of Machines,” – Law Technology Today, September 10, 2019.
- “Keeping Things in Perspective: 7 Ways to Streamline E-Discovery,” – The Daily Journal, August 5, 2010.
- “Detaining the ‘Enemy,’ Diluting the Law,” – The Washington Post, Jan. 21, 2004, at A27.
- “Why the First Amendment Protects a New England Dairy’s Right to Use a Milk Label Proclaiming Its Product to Be Growth-Hormone Free,” – Findlaw’s Legal Commentary (August 14, 2003).
- “Why A Recent Supreme Court Decision Erroneously Abridges Immigrants’ Rights, And Warns of Dangers to Civil Liberty Arising Out of the War on Terrorism,” – Findlaw’s Legal Commentary (May 15, 2003).
- “Does United States Policy Undermine the Goal of War Crimes Trials for Iraqi Leaders?” – Findlaw’s Legal Commentary (April 19, 2003).
- “Has Attorney General John Ashcroft, in Alleged Terrorism Cases, Violated Government Ethics Rules Governing Prosecutors’ Comments about the Accused?” – Findlaw’s Legal Commentary (January 30, 2003).
- “Taking the Multi-disciplinary Baby out of the Corporate Bath Water,” – 25 Virginia Poverty Law Journal, 4 (2002).
- “Exposing Secret Evidence: Eliminating a New Hardship of United States Immigration Policy,” – 19 Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal, 25 (2000-2001).
- “The Corporate Defamation Plaintiff in the Era of SLAPPs: Revisiting New York Times v. Sullivan,” – 9 William & Mary Bill Of Rights Journal, 491 (2001).
- “Breaking the Law: A New Moral Standard for Obedience,” – Thoughts Out of Season (2000).