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The Hoyt Block Building
Suite 400
700 West Saint Clair Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio, 44113

T: 216.781.7956

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Jason Bristol

Jason R. Bristol

Partner

Jason R. Bristol’s broad experience as a litigator includes numerous state and national class actions involving employee benefits, consumer fraud, and environmental contamination. In addition, Mr. Bristol devotes a significant portion of his practice to federal and state wage and hour litigation. In this capacity he has represented thousands of employees in class, collective, and hybrid actions. In 2007, he was named Plaintiff’s Complex Litigation and Class Action Counsel to the State of Ohio.

Mr. Bristol has served on the Adjunct Faculty of Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law since 2001, teaching a course in Advanced Brief Writing and serving as a Faculty Advisor to the school’s nationally-recognized Moot Court Team. He was honored as the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Moot Court Alumni of the Year for 2003-2004 for his work with the Moot Court Team.

Active in civic affairs and politics, Mr. Bristol is a member of the Board of The City Club of Cleveland New Leaders and the City Club’s Development Committee. He served as the Campaign Manager for a candidate for state-wide office during the 2004 General Election, and was actively involved in the 2006 campaigns of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.

Mr. Bristol has been recognized by Crain’s Cleveland Business as one of the “40 under 40” most up-and-coming professionals in Northeast Ohio. He is a Life Member of the Eighth District Judicial Conference, and was recently appointed to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Joint Bench/Bar Civil Justice Improvement Committee. He is also a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Association for Justice, the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the Ohio Employment Lawyers Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Cleveland Bar Association.

Mr. Bristol is a member of the Ohio bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He received his law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 2000, Order of Barristers, and his B.A. (with honors) from Bowling Green State University in 1997. Mr. Bristol served two years as a member of the University Board of Trustees while at Bowling Green.