Jason Edgecombe is senior attorney in King & Spalding’s Business Litigation Practice Group, where he represents clients in corporate and commercial litigation. Mr. Edgecombe has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial disputes involving real estate development, mergers and other corporate transactions, contract disputes, business torts, and consumer and commercial fraud claims. Mr. Edgecombe also frequently advises corporate directors and officers on issues of corporate governance and represents such clients in securities class action litigation and shareholder derivative lawsuits.
Mr. Edgecombe is involved in a number of the firm’s pro bono efforts, and is currently the coordinator of King & Spalding’s award-winning Eviction Defense Project, a joint program between King & Spalding, Atlanta Legal Aid, and Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation that provides representation to indigent defendants threatened with eviction from their homes. He has served as lead counsel in numerous successful trials for the Project’s clients. Mr. Edgecombe is also a member of the Board of Directors of the EDGE Connection, a nationally recognized non-profit organization that delivers microenterprise and small business training and support to Georgia entrepreneurs.
Mr. Edgecombe graduated with High Honors from Emory University School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as the Executive Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal. His comment, Off the Mark: Bringing the Federal Trademark Dilution Act in Line with Established Trademark Law, 51 Emory L.J. 1247 (2002), received the national Burton Award for Legal Achievement in 2003.
