When clients have urgent problems and need rapid results, Jason Hipp delivers. As Co-Chair of the firm’s Human Rights and Global Strategy Practice, Jason offers clients relentless advocacy combined with creative, strategic and steady guidance through litigation and beyond. Victims of human rights abuses, individuals facing existential crises and companies from the manufacturing, biotechnology, and cryptocurrency industries rely on his counsel.
Jason offers clients extensive experience with fast-moving litigation, such as motions for preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders. He also helps clients respond to urgent threats that may spill beyond the courtroom. Jason understands every aspect of a client’s problem and uses that nuanced understanding to drive and execute a strategy that will achieve the client’s goals.
Jason has significant experience navigating the intersection between US litigation and foreign law and legal systems. He has experience with Section 1782 (actions seeking evidence in the United States for foreign proceedings), the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the Torture Victim Protection Act, the Anti-Terrorism Act, and the Alien Tort Statute, among others. He leads major human rights and national security litigation in federal court, including cases arising out of the attempted killing of a senior foreign government official, a terrorist attack on an American citizen in eastern Ukraine, and the extrajudicial killing of a journalist during the civil war in El Salvador.
Before law school, Jason gained non-profit experience advancing human rights for LGBTQ people around the world and helping public housing residents secure social services. In those settings, he learned to craft values-driven and creative solutions even when resources are limited.
I find new solutions for client problems, opening alternative pathways to reaching their goals. By absorbing as much as possible about the client, advantageous information is always ready to deploy when the moment calls for it.
Representative Matters
- Representing hundreds of Yazidi-American genocide survivors and multiple Gold Star families in Anti-Terrorism Act actions against Lafarge, a French industrial company that pleaded guilty to bribing ISIS in Syria, illegal conduct that supported international terrorism in the region.
- Representing a senior foreign government official in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in human rights litigation arising from attempted killing of that former official.
- Pursuing Anti-Terrorism Act claims in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York while representing the family of a terrorist victim in eastern Ukraine.
- Won dismissal of fraud litigation against former intelligence official based on the United States’ assertion of the state secrets privilege and won appeal affirming dismissal in published First Circuit opinion.
- Defended foreign manufacturing company against all claims for damages in a multi-party ICC arbitration concerning claims for hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Fended off a right-of-first-refusal claim from a shareholder of a medical company targeted for acquisition in emergency injunction proceedings. Successful result enabled the client’s acquisition to proceed, and facilitated an eventual IPO of the client on a foreign exchange.
- Prevailed on summary judgment on behalf of medical cannabis company in the New York State Commercial Division, entitling clients to pursue significant damages against counterparty that breached no-shop provision during efforts to expand into the New York market.
Credentials
Service / Recognition
Overview
When clients have urgent problems and need rapid results, Jason Hipp delivers. As Co-Chair of the firm’s Human Rights and Global Strategy Practice, Jason offers clients relentless advocacy combined with creative, strategic and steady guidance through litigation and beyond. Victims of human rights abuses, individuals facing existential crises and companies from the manufacturing, biotechnology, and cryptocurrency industries rely on his counsel.
Jason offers clients extensive experience with fast-moving litigation, such as motions for preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders. He also helps clients respond to urgent threats that may spill beyond the courtroom. Jason understands every aspect of a client’s problem and uses that nuanced understanding to drive and execute a strategy that will achieve the client’s goals.
Jason has significant experience navigating the intersection between US litigation and foreign law and legal systems. He has experience with Section 1782 (actions seeking evidence in the United States for foreign proceedings), the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the Torture Victim Protection Act, the Anti-Terrorism Act, and the Alien Tort Statute, among others. He leads major human rights and national security litigation in federal court, including cases arising out of the attempted killing of a senior foreign government official, a terrorist attack on an American citizen in eastern Ukraine, and the extrajudicial killing of a journalist during the civil war in El Salvador.
Before law school, Jason gained non-profit experience advancing human rights for LGBTQ people around the world and helping public housing residents secure social services. In those settings, he learned to craft values-driven and creative solutions even when resources are limited.
I find new solutions for client problems, opening alternative pathways to reaching their goals. By absorbing as much as possible about the client, advantageous information is always ready to deploy when the moment calls for it.
Areas of Focus
Representative Matters
- Representing hundreds of Yazidi-American genocide survivors and multiple Gold Star families in Anti-Terrorism Act actions against Lafarge, a French industrial company that pleaded guilty to bribing ISIS in Syria, illegal conduct that supported international terrorism in the region.
- Representing a senior foreign government official in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in human rights litigation arising from attempted killing of that former official.
- Pursuing Anti-Terrorism Act claims in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York while representing the family of a terrorist victim in eastern Ukraine.
- Won dismissal of fraud litigation against former intelligence official based on the United States’ assertion of the state secrets privilege and won appeal affirming dismissal in published First Circuit opinion.
- Defended foreign manufacturing company against all claims for damages in a multi-party ICC arbitration concerning claims for hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Fended off a right-of-first-refusal claim from a shareholder of a medical company targeted for acquisition in emergency injunction proceedings. Successful result enabled the client’s acquisition to proceed, and facilitated an eventual IPO of the client on a foreign exchange.
- Prevailed on summary judgment on behalf of medical cannabis company in the New York State Commercial Division, entitling clients to pursue significant damages against counterparty that breached no-shop provision during efforts to expand into the New York market.
Credentials
Admissions
- New York, 2014
Education
- Columbia University School of Law, JD, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2013
- The George Washington University, BA, summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; DeWitt Clinton Croissant Prize for Best Essay on Theatre, 2007
Court Admissions
- US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2022
- US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2025
- US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2018
- US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2021
- US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 2022
- US District Court, District of Columbia, 2021
- US District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2025
- US District Court, Northern District of New York, 2021
- US District Court, Southern District of New York, 2014
Clerkships
- Hon. Myron H. Thompson, US District Court, Middle District of Alabama, 2016-2017
Service / Recognition
Awards
- The American Lawyer, Litigator of the Week, Runner-Up, 2025-2026
- Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, 2021; Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation, 2021, 2024
- Crain's New York Business, Notable LGBTQIA+ Leaders, 2024
- National Native American Law Students Association, First Place, Indian Law Writing Competition, 2013
- National Native American Law Students Association Moot Court Competition, Third Place, Best Advocate, 2011
Community
- Center for Justice and Accountability, Board of Directors
- Kinding Sindaw, Board of Directors
Service to the Bar
- New York City Bar Association, Member, 2019-present; Business & Human Rights Committee, 2023-present; Civil Rights Committee, 2019-2022
- International Bar Association, Human Rights Law Committee, 2022-present