Jean-Paul Jassy is an experienced litigator at all levels, ranging from document-intensive, multi-million dollar business disputes to free speech and free press cases before the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Courts of California and Florida.  He typically represents print and broadcast media companies, motion picture studios, book publishers, blogs and others with free press, free speech and copyright concerns, but he also has extensive experience representing clients in litigation matters in many other fields and contexts.  

The publishers of Los Angeles Magazine and Law & Politics call Jean-Paul "one of the top First Amendment and media attorneys" in Los Angeles, and have repeatedly recognized him as a "Rising Star" -- a peer-reviewed honor given to only 2.5% of attorneys in Southern California -- in the fields of First Amendment/media/advertising law, general litigation and appellate law.

Jean-Paul and his work have been discussed in American Lawyer, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily Journal and many other publications.  He is often called upon to offer expert commentary on First Amendment and media law issues.

He has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Southern California Law School (teaching Constitutional Law II – First Amendment law) and at Southwestern University Law School (teaching a course on the law of defamation, privacy and publicity).  He also served for four years as a regular course instructor at UCLA Extension teaching legal and ethical issues in journalism, a required course for a journalism certificate.

Jean-Paul has authored many articles on First Amendment, privacy and copyright issues, including a law review article concerning secret recordings that he co-authored with Gary Bostwick, Flanagan’s Wake: Newsgatherers Navigate Uncertain Waters Following Flanagan v. Flanagan, 23 Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review 1 (2002).

He is Co-Chair of the California Chapter of the Media Law Resource Center (MLRC), a Vice-Chair of the Training & Development Committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications Law, and a member of the Los Angeles Superior Court Media Committee.

Jean-Paul received a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School, where he was Chair of the Hale Moot Court Honors Program, and he has a B.A., with highest honors, in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.