Jessica Stuart Pliner

Jessica Stuart Pliner is a legal counselor to individuals and businesses throughout California.She is a trial attorney and an experienced advocate for her clients.  Jessica focuses on litigated matters involving employment, intellectual property (trade secrets, and copyright), commercial litigation, professional liability, defamation, and large-exposure tort litigation.   Jessica meticulously develops and executes litigation strategy and handles all aspects of litigation from inception through trial or resolution. With painstaking focus and well-analyzed evaluations of each matter, Jessica obtains outstanding results for her clients, including exploring all avenues for third party defense/indemnity. She has successfully first-chaired nine jury trials and second-chaired many others. Jessica has obtained hundreds of favorable resolutions through summary judgment or settlement, both at the state and federal level. A former ADA, Jessica achieved guilty verdicts for each of the jury trials she handled for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

Her diverse client list includes everyone from individuals to Fortune 500 companies.  Jessica obtained her B.A. from the University of California Santa Barbara and her J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law.  Before entering the legal world, Jessica gained insider music industry experience as a concert promoter, artist manager and owner/manager of an independent record label with a dozen domestic and international releases.

Jessica is active in the local community, including volunteering through bar associations and the Federal Pro Bono Project. She served as an officer and a Director for the Marin County Bar Association for several years.
For fun Jessica plays pickleball and travels abroad.