Keker, Van Nest & Peters is pleased to announce that the firm has elevated of counsel Sarah Salomon to partner and associate Jason George to of counsel, effective January 1, 2025.
“Sarah and Jason are first-rate lawyers who have helped deliver excellent results for our clients. They provide exceptional client service, mentor junior lawyers, and dedicate time to pro bono efforts—demonstrating the core values that define our firm,” Keker, Van Nest & Peters Managing Partner Laurie Carr Mims said. “We are excited to add their perspectives and strengths as trial lawyers, case managers, and colleagues to our firm’s leadership ranks.”
Sarah Salomon represents clients in high-stakes commercial litigation. Sarah has worked on successful trial teams, including a complicated arbitration for a large tech client where she argued motions and conducted direct and cross-examinations at the hearing. Her experience includes trade secret cases involving employee mobility, commercial disputes implicating federal export law, habeas, and civil rights actions. During a secondment to a prominent Silicon Valley-based tech company, she directed litigation strategy and supervised outside counsel for more than 30 lawsuits.
Before returning to Keker in 2022 as counsel, Sarah was an impact litigation associate with a boutique San Francisco law firm. There, she litigated cases aimed at creating systemic change for the underserved and unrepresented. These cases involved prison reform, library censorship, and claims of unfair business practices. She was an associate with Keker from 2016 to 2021.
Sarah also formerly served as a law clerk to Judge Beverly Martin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She graduated from Stanford Law School, where she served as academic chair of the Black Law Students Association and as president of Project ReMADE, an organization that helps formerly incarcerated people start their own small businesses.
Jason George specializes in high-stakes complex litigation involving intellectual property, fraud, contract, government, and employment disputes. He has helped a wide range of clients, from leading technology companies to innovative startups to non-profits, by tailoring creative litigation strategies to their individual circumstances and diverse objectives. With experience in all facets of commercial litigation in federal and state court, a quick understanding of emerging technologies, and a talent for in-depth legal analysis, he ardently fights for his clients and has guided them to favorable results on the pleadings, in discovery, and at trial.
Prior to joining Keker, Jason served as a law clerk to former Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court. Preceding that, he served in law clerkships for Judge Lucy H. Koh, then of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and for Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Jason earned his law degree from Stanford Law School and his bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. During law school, he worked for the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, where he litigated multiple cases before California and federal courts.