Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, the nation's first and only law firm with offices in all 50 states, welcomes James V. Fazio III as a Partner in the San Diego office. He joins the Commercial and Intellectual Property Litigation practice groups.
Fazio's practice focuses on commercial, business and intellectual property litigation. He represents public and private companies as well as start-ups in a wide variety of disputes, including those involving cybersecurity threats and incidents, patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, fraud, breach of contract, unfair competition, false advertising and various business tort claims.
Fazio represents clients in a wide variety of technologies and industries, including food services and restaurants, computer hardware and software, database management, semiconductors and chip design, medical devices, biometrics, business methods, e-commerce, telecommunications and wireless technologies, among others. He also has experience defending major companies against large class action lawsuits, including those involving data breaches, securities fraud and false advertising, stockholder derivative suits and investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
He is also a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California. While serving as a federal prosecutor, he tried nearly a dozen federal jury cases to verdict and argued numerous appeals before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
He earned his law degree from Syracuse University, his masters from the University of California, San Diego, and his undergraduate degree from Colgate University.
Fazio is admitted to practice law in California, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern, and Central Districts of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.