BRENT CASLIN, Partner Professional Activities Los Angeles Office Office: 213-239-5150 Fax: 213-239-5199 Email: bcaslin@jenner.com  Add to Outlook Contacts

Brent Caslin is a partner in the Firm's Litigation Department.  He manages commercial and intellectual property disputes from Los Angeles and spends a significant amount of time near technology centers in Northern California, Western Washington, and Japan.

Mr. Caslin has tried civil and criminal cases.  He represents clients in state and federal courts, before domestic and international arbitration tribunals, and in administrative proceedings with government agencies.  Mr. Caslin’s experience includes matters in Asia, and in the U.S. States of California, Hawaii, Alaska, Arizona, Alabama, New York, Texas, Washington, and Massachusetts.  He has extensive experience with applications for preliminary relief, including temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunction applications, and writs of mandamus.

The cases handled by Mr. Caslin have involved a wide variety of industries and subject matters, including television distribution agreements, film financing structures, defense contracts, executive agreements (e.g., restrictive covenant enforcement), energy supply contracts, election disputes, wage and hour class actions, insurance and financial services claims, construction defects, toxic torts, product liability claims, corporate control disputes, and FCPA investigations.   Mr. Caslin has a particular interest in technology related matters, including disputes involving new media distribution, the Copyright Act, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.  He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California.

Although he is a U.S. trained trial lawyer, Mr. Caslin has substantial international experience, having lived and worked in Asia, Europe, and the United States.  He regularly handles cross-border disputes, particularly for companies from Japan and elsewhere in Asia.  In 2003, Mr. Caslin worked on international matters during a one year attorney exchange with the international law group at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto in Tokyo, Japan.  He has also served on the Executive Committee for the International Law Section of the California State Bar since 2004.

Mr. Caslin has been identified by trade publications as a "partner with a proven track record in trade secrets work" and as a "rising star" in Southern California.  He is one of two founding partners of Jenner & Block's Los Angeles office.

Representative Presentations:

• New Risks and Trends Around the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Law of Trade Secrets, Northwestern Corporate Counsel Institute, San Francisco, California, December 2009.
• Practical Management of Relationships in Expedited Proceedings, Counsel to Counsel Summit, Beverly Hills, California, October 2009.
• Protecting Your Company From Willfulness and Increased Damages:  Practical Approaches to In re Seagate, Japan Intellectual Property Association Conference, Tokyo, Japan, August 2008.
• Problems & Ethical Challenges in International Arbitration, Third Annual California International Arbitration Conference, Santa Monica, California, May 2008.
• Managing International Client Relationships, Inter-Pacific Bar Association 18th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 2008.
• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Litigation Trends, Annual Technology Law Conference, Seattle, Washington, December 2007.
• Trade Secret Litigation, A Report From the Front Lines, Kirkland & Ellis Technology Law Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2007.
• Key Issues In International Arbitration, Second Annual California International Arbitration Conference, San Francisco, California, March 2007.
• Trends in Computer Technology Litigation (trade secrets, patents, on-line jurisdiction), National Seattle Computer Law Conference, December 2006.
• Debates Regarding International Arbitration, State Bar of California and Mexico Bar Association (CANACO), Newport Beach, California and Mexico City, Mexico, Spring 2006.
• International Jurisdiction and Technology Litigation, Kirkland & Ellis Technology Law Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2006.
• Issues in International Arbitration, International Bar Association’s International Arbitration Conference, Singapore, February 2006.
• Discovery Systems in United States Federal Courts, Beijing, China, October 2004.

Publications:

•  "Company Confidential," Los Angeles Daily Journal, August 13, 2008.
• "Strategies for Successful Arbitration," Aspatore Books, 2008 (contributing author).
• "California's Unique Rules on Restrictive Employment Covenants and the Potential for Extra-territorial Effect," Inter-Pacific Bar Association Journal, December 2007 (co-authored with Pantea Yashar of Ervin Cohen & Jessup).
• "The Growing Foreign Assault On U.S. Internet Speech and Jurisdiction of U.S. Courts to Declare Foreign Judgments Invalid," California International Law Journal, Fall 2006.
• "International Airport Centers v. Citrin and the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act," International Bar Association Technology and E-commerce Newsletter, September 2006.
• "Guidance for US Trade Secret Law," Right Now Magazine (in Japanese), August 2006 (co-authored with Junji Yamanaka of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu).
• "Before Signing Your Next Nondisclosure Agreement, Count to Ten," ACC Journal, January 2006 (co-authored with Eileen Barish of Comcast Entertainment).
• "Provident Savings Life Assurance Society v. Ford: 120 Years of Shenanigans Designed to Destroy Diversity Jurisdiction," 41 Willamette Law Review 101 (2006).
• "Pros and Cons of Using Arbitration to Settle Cross-Border M&A Disputes," Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine, International M&A Supplement, November 2005 (co-authored with Chris Almand of Kirkland & Ellis).
• "Can You Keep a Secret? Trade Secret Laws are Simple and Enforceable. Here's How Your Company Can Protect Itself," Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine, April 2004 (co-authored with Rick Richmond).
• "Understanding What Constitutes 'Reasonable Particularity' Can Be The Decisive Element In Trade Secret Litigation," Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, April 2004.
• "Gender Classifications and United States v. Virginia: Muddying the Waters of Equal Protection," 24 Pepperdine Law Review 1353 (1997).  The National Law Journal called special attention to the article: "Worth Reading," The National Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 46 (July 13, 1998).
• Mr. Caslin has also been interviewed and quoted in publications on a wide variety of arbitration and litigation matters, including, e.g., "Employers Take Advantage of Computer Fraud Law" (Inside Counsel, May 5, 2006); "Firms Fight for Limited Pool of China Experts" (San Francisco Daily Journal, Oct. 27, 2005); "Martin Ramirez Artworks Spark Legal Battle" (Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2008); "Trade Secrets Claims Face Uphill Battle in the Courts" (Los Angeles Daily Journal, October 27, 2009).