Jeanah Park
Associate
T: +1 (312) 609 7532
F: +1 (312) 609 5005
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Chicago
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Jeanah Park is a Senior Associate at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Litigation practice area and Antitrust and Competition and Financial Services sub-practice groups. She counsels and represents clients in a wide variety of business disputes, including commercial contract, employment, securities, intellectual property and business tort disputes.
Ms. Park has extensive experience in a variety of complex commercial litigation matters, including counseling clients and litigating issues pertaining to the defense of officers and directors in shareholder derivative actions, allegations of securities fraud, franchise and dealer termination, the protection of trade secrets, enforcement of restrictive covenants, and other business tort matters in both state and federal courts. Ms. Park has appeared and successfully argued several motions and appeals at all levels, including the Illinois Appellate Court and the federal district courts in the Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall and Texarkana divisions), the Districts of Delaware and Minnesota, and the Northern District of Indiana.
Ms. Park has successfully obtained injunctive relief and summary judgment on behalf of clients seeking to protect their trade secrets and enforce employee restrictive covenants. She has extensive experience in state and federal motion and discovery practice and has obtained sanctions on behalf of clients based on discovery violations, including spoliation of evidence. Ms. Park is co-author of a chapter in the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s Business and Commercial Litigation practice handbook, published in 2007 and 2009.
Prior to joining Vedder Price, Ms. Park was an associate at a commercial litigation boutique firm in Chicago. She is an active member of the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago (AABA), where she serves as AABA's Second Vice-President and will serve as its President beginning in 2013. She is also a member of the Chicago chapter of the Federal Bar Association and the Forum on Franchising of the American Bar Association.
Ms. Park was selected for inclusion from 2011 to 2012 in Illinois Rising Stars.
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- J.D., cum laude, University of Illinois College of Law, 2002
- B.A., Northwestern University, 1998
Illinois, 2002
US District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2002
US District Court, Southern District of Indiana, 2011
US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2003
- Second Vice-President, Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago
- Member, Forum on Franchising, American Bar Association
- Member, Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter
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