Jonathan represents the world’s leading technology and media companies on some of their most novel and challenging legal issues. His recent representations include matters for Facebook, Snap, Airbnb, Disney, and Square.
Jonathan has substantial experience in Internet and privacy-related litigation, including matters involving Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He also has significant experience in high-technology intellectual property disputes, including claims brought under the Copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Acts, the Lanham Act and state trademark statutes and trade secret laws. Additionally, he has litigated federal antitrust actions, consumer class actions, and constitutional matters.
Jonathan has been named a Top Cyber Lawyer by the Daily Journal in 2022, 2020 and 2019, a California Trailblazer by The Recorder in 2020, a top attorney under 40 in the field of technology law by Law360, and was chosen for the National Law Journal's inaugural list of "50 Intellectual Property Trailblazers & Pioneers." Jonathan has served as co-chair of the Legal Frontiers in Digital Media Conference, sponsored by the Media Law Resource Center and The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. He also has served as chair of the San Francisco Barristers Intellectual Property and Internet Law Section, and is on the board of the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association. Jonathan is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, and is a panel attorney for California Lawyers for the Arts.
Prior to joining the firm in 2004, Jonathan served as a law clerk to Judge Richard R. Clifton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, he served as a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review. Jonathan received his B.A. in history with highest distinction from the University of Michigan, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa.