Jason M. Rose

I am the son of Navy service man. In 1978, I was born in California at the San Diego Naval hospital. Shortly after my birth, my mother was tragically killed in a car accident, leaving my father and her family to raise me. My father eventually remarried, albeit briefly, and after a short stint living in upstate New York, my family moved across country to Santa Cruz, California, the home of surf, sun and the Beach Boardwalk. As a child, I spent some time living with my birth mother's family, but I primarily lived with my step-mother, my half siblings, and family friends. I may not have had the most traditional childhood, we may not have had a lot of money, and we didn't own a family car until I was eighteen, but it was a happy childhood. I was surrounded by interesting people who shared their love, wisdom, and diverse world perspectives with me, which caused me to grow up with a wide array of assorted interests and instilled in me a passion to fight for justice and a desire to help as many people as I could.

After high school, I went on a journey of self-discovery, taking me to a half-a-dozen different colleges, culminating in a Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy, from California State University Sacramento in 2005.

I then attended the University of La Verne College of Law ("ULV"), in Southern California, where I earned a Law degree, graduating Cum Laude in 2009. Throughout law school, I was a member of Law Review, Student Government, Delta Theta Phi, and was a founding member of ULV's Criminal Law Society. I competed nationally on ULV's inaugural Traveling Trial-Competition Team, won a Solo Moot Court competition, won a Team Moot Court competition, won a Graduate-Student writing competition, and was the recipient of several academic awards. Most importantly, I met my future wife Natasha.

Because for some reason I felt ten years of school, a handful of colleges, and two degrees wasn't enough, and I still felt the need to accumulate more student debt, I then enrolled in a Master's program at California Western School of Law, in San Diego, graduating in 2010 with a Masters of Law degree in Trial Advocacy.

During law school, I clerked for both the Federal Public Defender office in Santa Ana, California, and the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office in San Bernardino, California.

In 2010, after Law School, I became an associate at Brayton Purcell LLP. I have tried asbestos and tobacco personal injury and wrongful death mesothelioma, lung cancer, colon cancer, other cancer, and asbestosis cases in California (San Francisco, Alameda, Los Angeles, Shasta and Solano Counties), and Federal Court (United States District Court Northern District of California). Along with Gil Purcell and Jennifer Alesio, I received the San Francisco Trial Lawyer’s Association 2015 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. One of my trial successes, Tajie Major v. Lorillard Tobacco Company, et al., was recognized as Top a Plaintiff’s Verdict by the Daily Journal, and a Top 100 Verdict nationally by the National Law Journal. I was selected as a Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 and 2021.

In 2012, I convinced Natasha to become my wife, and in 2016, she gave birth to our first child Ford, and then in 2018, she gave birth to our second child Porter. Natasha, Ford, Porter and I live in the East Bay.

When I am not fighting for our clients, I am coaching or attending my children’s numerous sporting events, and/or working on one of my books. I am the author of the Knight Advocate legal fantasy series.

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