Jason E. Fellner

580 California Street
Suite 1100
San Francisco, CA 94104

Phone: 415.788.1900
Fax: 415.393.8087

1455 NW Leary Way
Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98107
Phone: 206.219.2008
Fax: 206.489.5101

jfellner@mpbf.com
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Admissions

All Courts of the State of California
All United States District Courts in the State of California
All Courts in the State of Washington
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal

Education

J.D., University of San Francisco, School of Law
B.A., Political Science, with a minor in History, University of California, San Diego
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Academic Distinctions

Staff Member, University of San Francisco Journal of Law and Social Challenges
Legal Extern to the Honorable Robert L. Dondero, San Francisco Superior Court
CALI Award in International Business Transactions
CALI Award in Securities Regulation
Co-Chair of California Water Law Symposium
Arthur C. Zief Scholarship Recipient

Jason E. Fellner

Shareholder

Mr. Fellner is a trial lawyer who represents individual and corporate clients throughout California and Washington with a focus in professional liability defense, insurance, and civil litigation. Mr. Fellner has successfully represented clients in all phases of dispute resolution from pre-litigation mediation and arbitration all the way through trial. He also serves as general counsel to companies. A hallmark of his practice Mr. Fellner works collaboratively with his clients in providing them with recommendations on how best to address the legal, financial, and the emotional aspects of each case. He is recognized by the California State Bar as a Certified Specialist in Legal Malpractice Law and is a Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. He speaks regularly and often to lawyers on legal ethics and routinely represents parties in attorney fee dispute matters. Mr. Fellner also serves as an expert witness on legal malpractice and ethics.

Prior to joining Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney, Mr. Fellner clerked as a legal research attorney for the Honorable Peter J. Busch in the San Francisco Superior Court's Law & Motion Department. Since 2013, Mr. Fellner, who is an American Board of Trial Advocates (A.B.O.T.A.) Trial College Fellow, has been selected every year as a Northern California Super Lawyer.

Professional Contributions

Mr. Fellner served as a Commissioner of the City of Millbrae's Parks & Recreation Commission and has volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children in the San Francisco Juvenile Dependency Court system. He has served as a committee member of the Northern California Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), and a committee member of the Bar Association of San Francisco Legal Ethics Committee. Mr. Fellner currently sits as an attorney referral panelist for the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) and previously served on the Legal Ethics Editorial Advisory Board for Law360.com. Mr. Fellner is an active member of The Guardsmen, a San Francisco non-profit organization, and has served as the organization's General Counsel. Since 2017, Mr. Fellner has also served as a faculty teacher at the Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop.

Published Appellate Decisions

Flake v. Neumiller & Beardslee, et al., (2017) 9 Cal.App.5th 223 – Motion for Summary Judgment based on statute of limitations upheld on appeal in defense of action against law firm client.
Trapp v. Naiman, (2013) 218 Cal.App.4th 113 – Anti-SLAPP motion upheld on appeal in defense of action against law firm client.

Selected Presentations

Mitigating California Legal Malpractice Exposure in a Post Covid-19 World, Co-presented with Kevin Cardona, San Mateo County Bar Association, L&E Section, August 26, 2021
Opening Statements, Presented by Jason E. Fellner, Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop for the Fall 2020 Quarter, October 15, 2020
Depositions, Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop for the Fall 2019 Quarter, October 3, 2019
Avoiding Malpractice Claims, co-presented with Charles N. Bahlert, San Mateo County Bar Association, March 28, 2019
Opening Statements, Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop for the Fall 2018 Quarter, October 22, 2018
Tolling Legal Malpractice Statute of Limitations - The Uncertainty of "Continuous Representation", co-Presented with Geoffrey T. Macbride and Mark B. Abelson at the California Lawyers Association Real Property Section's 37^th Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA - April 22, 2018
Top Ten Ethical Blunders Made By Attorneys and How to Avoid Them, Bar Association of San Francisco, November 15, 2017
Avoiding Malpractice Claims – A Primer for Both New and Seasoned Attorneys, co-presented with Caitlin T. DiMaggio, San Mateo County Bar Association, October 27, 2017
Smart Utilization of Demonstratives at Trial, co-presented with Caitlin T. DiMaggio, MPBF, San Francisco, CA, October 26, 2017
Avoiding Malpractice Claims - A Primer for Both New and Seasoned Attorneys, co-presented with Caitlin T. DiMaggio, Private Law Firm Presentation in San Mateo, CA, October 20, 2017
Tolling Legal Malpractice Statute of Limitations – The Uncertainty of "Continuous Representation", co-Presented with Geoffrey T. Macbride, Bar Association of San Francisco, October 12, 2017
Depositions, Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop for the Fall 2017 Quarter, October 7, 2017
Because You Asked... Hotline FAQs, co-presented with Arthur J. Harris and Mandy L. Jeffcoach, Lawyers Mutual, July 2017
Malpractice and Ethics - What I Wish I Knew, Co-Presented with Barbara Engler of Arch Insurance, Alameda County Bar Association, Oakland, CA, May 4, 2017
Avoiding Malpractice Claims – A Primer for Both New and Seasoned Attorneys, San Mateo County Bar Association, San Mateo, CA, February 9, 2017
Next Generation of LPL Leaders, American Bar Association National Legal Malpractice Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 28, 2016
Avoiding Malpractice Claims, Bar Association of San Francisco, March 15, 2016
Avoiding Malpractice Claims – A Primer for Both New and Seasoned Attorneys, Santa Clara County Bar Association, November 4, 2015
Avoiding Malpractice Claims – A Primer for Young Lawyers, San Mateo County Bar Association, November 20, 2014.
Mitigation Potential Legal Malpractice Claims, Co-Presented with Peter Weber and Lemme Insurance, City Club San Francisco, April 23, 2014
Ethical Issues in Family Law, San Mateo County Bar Association, January 24, 2014.
Reducing Legal Malpractice Exposure with Effective Engagement Agreements, San Mateo County Bar Association, Family Law Section, October 11, 2013.
Ethical Guidelines for Maintaining a Successful Practice, by Jason E. Fellner and Timothy J. Halloran, presented in December 2010.