Jackson D. Toof

ArentFox Schiff’s Litigation practice includes more than 200 litigators representing clients in complex civil and criminal matters before federal and state courts, regulatory agencies, and arbitral tribunals in the United States and internationally. The team manages disputes strategically and with close attention to clients’ broader business objectives, evaluating available options at each stage of a matter.

The practice has substantial experience coordinating parallel civil and criminal proceedings involving multiple jurisdictions, parties, government entities, and overlapping federal and state laws. Its work spans securities and white collar enforcement, False Claims Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters, managed care, class actions, ERISA, insurance, intellectual property, and environmental disputes, including high-stakes matters with significant commercial implications.

The team includes a former U.S. attorney, former Department of Justice lawyers, a former U.N. ambassador, a former Naval judge, mediators, arbitrators, and experienced trial lawyers. This depth enables ArentFox Schiff to combine courtroom advocacy with regulatory, investigative, and dispute resolution experience across particularly complex matters.

ArentFox Schiff LLP is a full-service U.S. law firm advising major corporations, privately held businesses, entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and individuals on sophisticated legal, regulatory, and commercial matters. With more than 670 attorneys and offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Lake Forest, and Ann Arbor, the firm combines a substantial national platform with an industry-focused approach designed around clients’ business objectives.

The firm’s multidisciplinary capabilities encompass corporate and securities, finance, restructuring and bankruptcy, real estate, tax, private clients and trusts and estates, intellectual property, labor and employment, complex litigation, white-collar and government enforcement, international trade, privacy and data security, environmental law, and government relations. More than 200 litigators handle civil and criminal matters in state and federal courts, regulatory proceedings, arbitrations, and other forums, while the firm’s transactional and regulatory attorneys advise clients across nearly two dozen industries.

Real estate and construction are longstanding strengths of ArentFox Schiff. The firm advises owners, developers, contractors, construction managers, architects, engineers, and other project participants on development and construction, contract drafting and administration, risk management, and disputes involving delays, defects, payment claims, design issues, terminations, liens, and surety matters. Its integrated approach allows construction and real estate attorneys to work alongside colleagues in finance, tax, litigation, environmental, and regulatory practices, providing coordinated counsel throughout the lifecycle of significant projects and investments.