Jeffrey J. Lederman, a Partner with Joseph & Cohen, is an AV peer review rated attorney with 37 years of experience. Mr. Lederman has an outstanding track record as a trial lawyer, specializing in complex commercial disputes in State and Federal Court in the areas of technology, real estate, banking, and insurance. Mr. Lederman’s experience includes consumer and commercial class actions, contract and warranty claims, business torts, the Uniform Commercial Code, and consumer protection statutes.
Mr. Lederman has recently received the following awards and honors: Selected as the exclusive California Litigation Client Choice award recipient in the 2013 edition of Client Choice Guide – USA & Canada. Named as one of only 318 attorneys nationally in the 2011 BTI Client Service All-Star annual report published by the BTI Consulting Group, recognizing attorneys for exceptional client service. Mr. Lederman received his second BTI Client Service All-Star recognition in 2016 as one of only 312 attorneys. In 2017, Mr. Lederman received his third recognition from the BTI Consulting Group as one of only eight Client Service Super All-Star Attorneys after being nominated by multiple clients.
Mr. Lederman’s past law firm experience includes: Partner with Winston & Strawn LLP and for seven years Head of its San Francisco Litigation Group. Partner in the Palo Alto office of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now part of DLA Piper). Mr. Lederman was one of several attorneys featured in Martindale-Hubbell’s Counsel to Counsel January 2011 spotlight on class actions. He has also served as a member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the State Bar of California and chair of its Article 2 Subcommittee, as well as a volunteer in the East Palo Alto Volunteer Attorney Program.
Mr. Lederman was awarded his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Davis in 1982, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. In 1981, Mr. Lederman served as an extern to Justice Otto Kaus of the California Supreme Court. He received a B.S. in Chemistry, with honors, from the University of California at Davis in 1977, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Partner and SCCA racer Jeff Lederman in his Joseph & Cohen-sponsored Stohr-Dauntless Prototype 1, Pacific Raceways, Kent, WA, May 2015.
