January 2016 – Kendall Brill & Kelly is pleased to announce that Randall L. Jackson has been named a partner of the firm effective January 1, 2016.
Mr. Jackson joined the firm in 2011 and has distinguished himself as a litigator with extensive experience in all phases of pretrial, trial, and appellate civil litigation. His practice encompasses a wide array of matters, including entertainment, intellectual property, securities, and general commercial litigation. Among other cases, Mr. Jackson was a key member of the trial team that, in October 2014, obtained a complete defense verdict for Paramount Pictures Corporation in a $30 million lawsuit brought by investors in a “slate” of Paramount films.
Additionally, Mr. Jackson devotes a substantial amount of time to matters of public significance. For more than a year, Mr. Jackson has been actively involved in the pro bono representation of a prisoner’s challenge to the Arizona Department of Corrections’ racial segregation of inmates, as well as its systematic use of race in employing inmates in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Furthermore, since 2013, Mr. Jackson has served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, which provides free legal and social services to low-income domestic violence and sexual assault survivors and their families.
Mr. Jackson is a graduate of Harvard Law School and earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles. After completing law school, he served as law clerk to the Hon. Stephen V. Wilson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.