CHRIS JACZKO

Phone: 858.404.9206
Email: cjaczko@jaczkogoddard.com
 

Chris Jaczko has twenty years of experience as a lawyer in San Diego. Prior to founding Jaczko Goddard LLP, Chris was a partner with Cooley Godward LLP (now Cooley LLP) where he obtained a varied background through handling a variety of complex business litigation and employment matters.  Most notably, he successfully handled for both plaintiffs and defendants a number of large patent infringement cases in the biotechnology and electronics industries, a $500 million Ponzi Scheme case and a number of significant commercial litigation matters.  Before joining Cooley, Chris was an associate in the law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP, where he focused on complex business litigation and plaintiff’s-side personal injury cases.

Chris regularly appears in state and federal courts throughout California and has appeared in various federal and state courts throughout the country as well. He also has experience representing clients before arbitration panels and in other alternative dispute resolution forums.  

Chris received a Juris Doctor degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1990. While at SMU, he served as the Comments Editor for The International Lawyer, which is the most widely distributed international law review in the world.

Chris received a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University in 1984.

Before attending law school, he was a marketing account manager with Texas Instruments, Inc. responsible for strategic development and marketing of semiconductor products to the telecommunications industry.

Chris has authored and co-authored various articles, including among others: “What are those A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s: Working with Experts in Biotechnology Trials,” appearing in the San Diego Daily Transcript, January 28, 2004, and “The Common Law Joint Defense Privilege: Warning, What You Say May Be Used Against You!” appearing in ABTL Report, San Diego, August 1995.  He has also taught classes on civil litigation practice.

Chris is admitted to practice before all California State Courts, the U.S. District Courts in the Southern, Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is a member of the litigation section of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, the American Business Trial Lawyers Association, and the San Diego Trial Lawyers Association. Chris is also a Master in the American Inn of Court, Clifford J. Wallace chapter.

In addition to his legal practice, Chris serves on a number of boards of non-profit and charitable organizations.   He is a member of the Board of Directors of the San Dieguito Sports Medicine Foundation and also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Torrey Pines Foundation.   Chris has served on the Board of Trustees for the San Diego Center for Children, and been appointed to serve on various task forces for the San Dieguito Union High School District and the Del Mar Unified School District.