Jacob M. Harper

The country's leading retailers, grocers, and manufacturers call on Jacob Harper, a leader in DWT's litigation group and co-chair of DWT's preeminent Chambers-ranked food and beverage group, to defend them in litigation at the intersection of business, food and beverage, technology, property rights, privacy, shareholder and management relations, competition, and consumer protection law. From national grocery chains to web-based startups and local businesses, clients like Ralphs Grocery Co., Fred Meyer, The Kroger Co., Park Assist, SunRidge Farms, Zoom Communications Inc., Laird Superfoods, KeHE Distributors, and dozens of others look to Jacob's ingenuity and responsiveness to resolve difficult, time-sensitive, and cutting-edge cases efficiently and quickly. Clients rely on Jacob to win, not to settle.

Recognized for his extensive experience in consumer class actions, Jacob has obtained many precedent-setting dismissals, favorable judgments, and appellate victories for clients in unfair competition, food mislabeling, ADA, and privacy.

A leader in defending business and property rights, Jacob routinely obtains restraining orders, preliminary and permanent injunctions, trial judgments, and appellate victories against political groups, dissenting shareholders, solicitors, and others for prominent businesses on the West Coast, including grocers, property managers, and investors.

Jacob has been a Southern California Super Lawyers "Rising Star" every year since 2016, and has been recognized as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Food and Beverage Law since 2020 by Best Lawyers.