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Discovery Attorney

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Chicago

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+1 312 840 7467

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Pejman Yousefzadeh

Discovery Attorney

Office

Chicago

Phone

+1 312 840 7467

Areas of Focus

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Pejman Yousefzadeh uses his significant experience in electronic discovery to meet client needs in litigation, investigation, and monitorship contexts. Pejman also has experience in fact-finding as part of an investigative team and in leveraging his experience to draft reports for clients containing complex investigative findings.

Pejman’s extensive pro bono practice has included researching multiple legal issues to aid military veterans, assisting a client in drafting a report on truth and reconciliation commissions, and aiding clients seeking to immigrate to the United States. He helped revise and update the firm’s guide to civil RICO litigation in federal courts.  

Areas of Focus

Credentials

  • Illinois

  • Pepperdine University School of Law, JD, Fall Individual Advocacy Tournament Winner (1998); Honors Trial Team (1997-1999); elected to The Order of Barristers, 1999
  • University of Chicago, MA, 1995
  • University of Chicago, BA, 1994

Pejman Yousefzadeh uses his significant experience in electronic discovery to meet client needs in litigation, investigation, and monitorship contexts. Pejman also has experience in fact-finding as part of an investigative team and in leveraging his experience to draft reports for clients containing complex investigative findings.

Pejman’s extensive pro bono practice has included researching multiple legal issues to aid military veterans, assisting a client in drafting a report on truth and reconciliation commissions, and aiding clients seeking to immigrate to the United States. He helped revise and update the firm’s guide to civil RICO litigation in federal courts.  

  • Illinois

  • Pepperdine University School of Law, JD, Fall Individual Advocacy Tournament Winner (1998); Honors Trial Team (1997-1999); elected to The Order of Barristers, 1999
  • University of Chicago, MA, 1995
  • University of Chicago, BA, 1994

Overview

Pejman Yousefzadeh uses his significant experience in electronic discovery to meet client needs in litigation, investigation, and monitorship contexts. Pejman also has experience in fact-finding as part of an investigative team and in leveraging his experience to draft reports for clients containing complex investigative findings.

Pejman’s extensive pro bono practice has included researching multiple legal issues to aid military veterans, assisting a client in drafting a report on truth and reconciliation commissions, and aiding clients seeking to immigrate to the United States. He helped revise and update the firm’s guide to civil RICO litigation in federal courts.  

Areas of Focus

Credentials

Admissions

  • Illinois

Education

  • Pepperdine University School of Law, JD, Fall Individual Advocacy Tournament Winner (1998); Honors Trial Team (1997-1999); elected to The Order of Barristers, 1999
  • University of Chicago, MA, 1995
  • University of Chicago, BA, 1994

Pejman Yousefzadeh uses his significant experience in electronic discovery to meet client needs in litigation, investigation, and monitorship contexts. Pejman also has experience in fact-finding as part of an investigative team and in leveraging his experience to draft reports for clients containing complex investigative findings.

Pejman’s extensive pro bono practice has included researching multiple legal issues to aid military veterans, assisting a client in drafting a report on truth and reconciliation commissions, and aiding clients seeking to immigrate to the United States. He helped revise and update the firm’s guide to civil RICO litigation in federal courts.  

Areas of Focus

Credentials

  • Illinois

  • Pepperdine University School of Law, JD, Fall Individual Advocacy Tournament Winner (1998); Honors Trial Team (1997-1999); elected to The Order of Barristers, 1999
  • University of Chicago, MA, 1995
  • University of Chicago, BA, 1994

Pejman Yousefzadeh uses his significant experience in electronic discovery to meet client needs in litigation, investigation, and monitorship contexts. Pejman also has experience in fact-finding as part of an investigative team and in leveraging his experience to draft reports for clients containing complex investigative findings.

Pejman’s extensive pro bono practice has included researching multiple legal issues to aid military veterans, assisting a client in drafting a report on truth and reconciliation commissions, and aiding clients seeking to immigrate to the United States. He helped revise and update the firm’s guide to civil RICO litigation in federal courts.  

  • Illinois

  • Pepperdine University School of Law, JD, Fall Individual Advocacy Tournament Winner (1998); Honors Trial Team (1997-1999); elected to The Order of Barristers, 1999
  • University of Chicago, MA, 1995
  • University of Chicago, BA, 1994

Overview

Pejman Yousefzadeh uses his significant experience in electronic discovery to meet client needs in litigation, investigation, and monitorship contexts. Pejman also has experience in fact-finding as part of an investigative team and in leveraging his experience to draft reports for clients containing complex investigative findings.

Pejman’s extensive pro bono practice has included researching multiple legal issues to aid military veterans, assisting a client in drafting a report on truth and reconciliation commissions, and aiding clients seeking to immigrate to the United States. He helped revise and update the firm’s guide to civil RICO litigation in federal courts.  

Areas of Focus

Credentials

Admissions

  • Illinois

Education

  • Pepperdine University School of Law, JD, Fall Individual Advocacy Tournament Winner (1998); Honors Trial Team (1997-1999); elected to The Order of Barristers, 1999
  • University of Chicago, MA, 1995
  • University of Chicago, BA, 1994

News and Insights

News

Jenner & Block’s 2024 Election Protection Work with Brennan Center Highlighted in The National Law Journal

Partner Jeremy Creelan recently spoke with The National Law Journal about Jenner & Block’s pro bono work with the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. In the article, Jeremy discussed a joint effort in Georgia regarding issues with the state’s voter registration cancellation portal.

November 5, 2024

Publications

“Banks Must Understand Their AI Tools or Risk Running Afoul of the Law,” American Banker Magazine

In this article, Partner Michael Ross, Special Counsel Michaela Croft, Associate Sol Gelsomino, and Discovery Attorney Pejman Yousefzadeh examine the implications of AI-driven financial tools.

June 1, 2024

Publications

Client Alert: Jenner & Block Releases New Treatise on Civil RICO Litigation

Litigation Department Co-Chair Reid J. Schar, together with E.K. McWilliams and Philip B. Sailer, have released an updated edition of A Guide to Civil RICO Litigation in Federal Courts, one of Jenner & Block’s Practice Series Guides. This 300-plus page publication is designed to assist lawyers, both in-house and in private practice, as they navigate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) in civil cases. This fully revised and updated treatise seeks to demystify RICO by f

July 6, 2021

Publications

“Dick Cheney and the Robust Conception of Presidential Power (Book Review of In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney),” Texas Review of Law & Politics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2012

In this book review, Pejman Yousefzadeh examines how, as he says, former Vice President Dick Cheney “did not become a skeptic of executive power.” Pejman observes that, on the contrary, Cheney sought to safeguard executive power against what he — and others around him — saw as encroachment by Congress.”

February 24, 2014

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