Jonathan Polland

Jonathan Polland is a partner with Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP. He specializes in business litigation, and has a wide variety of experience in breach of contract, partnership, business tort, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and securities cases representing both plaintiffs and defendants.

Examples of matters he has recently handled include:

Successfully defended a $52 million claim brought against a real estate development company involving 1,100 acres in Los Gatos, California, and recovered over $18 million on the cross-claim relating to the same property after a one-month jury trial
Recovered in excess of $1.5 million on a claim for breach of a software license agreement and successfully defended cross-claims based on alleged software defects
Successful defense of a radio broadcasting company from claims of tortious interference with contract brought by a competitor
Supervised the dissolution of a law firm that employed seventy-five attorneys, including representation of the firm in fee disputes with former clients, and disputes with former partners

Jon also has significant mediation, arbitration and trial experience.

In 2004, 2005 and 2006, Jon was honored as a “Super Lawyer” by San Francisco magazine in an annual survey of Northern California lawyers.

Education

Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1987
- Order of the Coif
Wesleyan University, B.A., History, 1981