Practice Areas
First Amendment, Media, Entertainment, Copyright, Trademark, Business Litigation, Fashion.
Jean-Paul (JP) Jassy litigates nationwide with an emphasis on disputes in the First Amendment, media, internet and entertainment arenas. He also routinely represents all types of businesses and individuals in multi-million dollar breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, copyright, trademark and idea submission cases.
Career
Jean-Paul (JP) Jassy is a litigator with particular experience representing online, print and television media and entertainment companies in First Amendment matters. He also routinely handles business and intellectual property disputes.
JP started his career at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and then practiced at Loeb & Loeb LLP and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
By age 27, JP was teaching First Amendment law at his alma mater, the highly-ranked University of Southern California Law School. For three years, he taught a course in defamation, privacy and publicity law at Southwestern School of Law. From 2011 to 2015, he taught First Amendment law and media law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. In 2017, he returned to USC to teach the First Amendment Law course again.
At age 30, JP appeared before the United States Supreme Court on a free speech case. His clients won. He also has represented clients in First Amendment cases in the Supreme Courts of California and Florida, and in the Second, Fifth and Ninth Circuits.
At age 32, he co-founded a law firm recognized nationally by US News & World Report as top tier in First Amendment litigation and media law.
Starting at age 36, he has repeatedly been recognized by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the field of First Amendment law. His peers have recognized him six times as "Lawyer of the Year" in Los Angeles in his fields of practice
At 39, he co-founded the boutique law firm of Jassy Vick Carolan LLP, which is recognized as top tier in the nation for First Amendment law.
Professional Memberships
Media Law Resource Center (Secretary and former Treasurer)
ABA Forum on Communications Law (former Governing Committee member)
First Amendment Coalition (Board of Directors),
Law 360 (Media & Entertainment Editorial Advisory Board)
Los Angeles County Bar Association (former member of Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee)
Los Angeles Copyright Society
Publications
JP is the lead co-author of the Ninth Circuit chapter in Media Libel Law: 50-State Survey, published annually by LexisNexis and the Media Law Resource Center, and he is a contributing author to The Right to Know: A Guide to Public Access and Media Law, published by the California Newspaper Publishers Association and First Amendment Coalition. He also regularly speaks and writes on First Amendment and media law issues.
