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Justin R. Donoho

Associate

Chicago
T +1.312.416.8198
F +1.312.416.6201
jdonoho@bakerlaw.com
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Overview

Justin Donoho is a commercial litigator who resolves and tries issues involving breach of contract, misrepresentation, professional negligence, intellectual property, financial services, construction, engineering, technology, class actions, insurance coverage, civil rights, and other complex issues. As a former manager and consultant to large, international organizations, former federal appellate clerk, and now litigator and trial lawyer, Justin combines business experience with strategic legal thinking to help his clients evaluate risk and create and implement aggressive and efficient legal strategies. With a deep background in information technology, Justin also helps his clients navigate electronic discovery efficiently and effectively.

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  • Currently and routinely defending commercial cases seeking billions and millions of dollars, including cases involving claims of federal securities fraud, data breach claims, claims relating to the marketing of opioids and other complex commercial claims.
  • Represented investment fund in dispute against broker-dealer and related parties stemming from default and partial invalidation of a $50 million bond transaction. Deposed corporate representative and other witnesses, argued partial summary judgment motions, directed expert trial testimony, and authored winning appellate briefs. After winning first phase of trial and defeating two separate appeals, all of which established a key issue of liability, the case settled on terms favorable to the client.
  • Handled a variety of patent litigation and licensing issues involving automated warehousing technology, cellular networks, automotive tools, pharmaceuticals, and other technologies.
  • Handled a variety of construction litigation issues involving industrial and commercial facilities, engineering standard of care, change order claims, construction defect and delay claims, process engineering, structural engineering, waste water treatment, and high-rise window wall systems.
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Experience

  • Currently and routinely defending commercial cases seeking billions and millions of dollars, including cases involving claims of federal securities fraud, data breach claims, claims relating to the marketing of opioids and other complex commercial claims.
  • Represented investment fund in dispute against broker-dealer and related parties stemming from default and partial invalidation of a $50 million bond transaction. Deposed corporate representative and other witnesses, argued partial summary judgment motions, directed expert trial testimony, and authored winning appellate briefs. After winning first phase of trial and defeating two separate appeals, all of which established a key issue of liability, the case settled on terms favorable to the client.
  • Handled a variety of patent litigation and licensing issues involving automated warehousing technology, cellular networks, automotive tools, pharmaceuticals, and other technologies.
  • Handled a variety of construction litigation issues involving industrial and commercial facilities, engineering standard of care, change order claims, construction defect and delay claims, process engineering, structural engineering, waste water treatment, and high-rise window wall systems.
  • Defended a large engineering and construction firm in private arbitration against over $100 million in claims relating to the design of a polysilicon plant. Obtained and boiled down millions of documents, defended witnesses’ depositions, assisted the creation of expert reports, and crafted dispositive motions, after which the case settled favorably.
  • Secured dismissal of class action lawsuits brought against a variety of companies.
  • Secured rapid resolution of disputes involving employment and confidentiality agreements for a variety of companies.
  • Handled multimillion-dollar insurance coverage issues involving commercial insurance, primary, umbrella, and excess lines, professional liability, long-tail claims, bad faith, reinsurance, sexual abuse, and construction defects.
  • Led e-discovery efforts and the resolution of discovery disputes across the entire EDRM spectrum in cases involving multiple millions of documents, thousands of potential custodians and data sources, foreign languages, forensic data recovery, case-customized metadata, proprietary document formats, predictive coding, IP-sensitive documents, foreign privacy laws, privilege issues, document spoliation, arbitral subpoenas, and proportionality and other standards governing the scope of discovery.

Recognitions and Memberships

Recognitions

  • Illinois Super Lawyers "Rising Star" (2019)

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Pro Bono

  • Represented a prisoner seeking relief from cruel and unusual punishment.
  • Represented immigrant seeking asylum.
  • Represented amici curiae seeking to maintain Illinois’ standard for habeas petitioners to prove their innocence with newly discovered evidence.
  • Assisted the N.D. Ill. in presentation of pro se testimony as a member of the N.D. Ill. trial bar.

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Prior Positions

  • The Honorable William J. Bauer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: Law Clerk
  • Manager and Consultant in information technology industry

Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Trial Bar
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Registration No. 67,322
  • Illinois

Education

  • J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 2009; Chicago Journal of International Law, Executive Editor; Research Assistant to Hon. Richard A. Posner
  • B.S., Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999, with highest honors

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In The Blogs

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Discovery Advocate
COVID-19 and U.S. Statutes of Limitation
By Justin R. Donoho, Gilbert S. Keteltas
May 21, 2020
At the federal and state levels, there have been calls to suspend statutes of limitations during the COVID-19 outbreak. A number of states have already acted, but state approaches vary and are open to future changes as the challenges of...
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Data Counsel
Privacy Litigation in the Age of Coronavirus
By Justin R. Donoho, Paul G. Karlsgodt
May 11, 2020
Now that new cases of COVID-19 appear to be waning in the United States, those of us stuck in our homes are asking the same question: How long before things get back to normal? The answer from epidemiologists appears to be no time soon, as...
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