Andrew J. Thomas — Partner at Jenner & Block

Andrew J. (A.J.) Thomas is a Partner in Litigation Department at Jenner & Block LLP. Mr. Thomas is a Member of the Creative Content and Complex Commercial Litigation Practices. Mr. Thomas is a leading media and entertainment litigator with significant experience in copyright and trademark matters, First Amendment cases, and complex business litigation. Mr. Thomas has represented media and entertainment industry clients at the trial and appellate levels in matters involving intellectual property rights, defamation and privacy, unfair competition claims, and prior restraints on speech. Clients have included television networks and production companies, book publishers, magazines, newspapers, photo agencies, broadcast companies, and advertising companies. Prior to joining Jenner & Block, Mr. Thomas was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Mr. Thomas is admitted to practice in the State of California and before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California. Mr. Thomas was named a leading California Media and Entertainment Litigation lawyer by Chambers USA in 2009 and 2010. He was also selected as a Southern California 'Super Lawyer' in the area of Business and Intellectual Property Litigation in recent years. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Thomas was a Board Member of the Copyright Society of Los Angeles. He is a member of the Forum on Communications Law of the American Bar Association. Mr. Thomas was an Adjunct Lecturer on media law at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism from 2003 to 2005 and, in 2003, he was a Guest Lecturer on defamation and privacy law at the Southwestern University School of Law. Mr. Thomas is a 1991 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University in 1988, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with distinction and department honors. At Stanford, Mr. Thomas was a reporter for and editor of The Stanford Daily. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Thomas served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.