Vedder Price

Jeanah Park

Shareholder

Chair, Associate Evaluation Committee


Jeanah Park is a Shareholder 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 business and employment disputes, including commercial contract, wrongful discharge, securities, intellectual property and business tort disputes.

Ms. Park has extensive experience in a variety of complex commercial litigation, class action and employment matters, including counseling clients and litigating issues pertaining to the protection of trade secrets, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, media defense litigation, defending allegations of securities fraud and violations of state and federal consumer protection statutes and other business tort matters in both state and federal courts. She also counsels clients concerning privacy and data security issues in connection with employee trade secret misappropriation, data theft and other cybersecurity matters.

Ms. Park has litigated complex commercial matters in state and federal courts all over the country, including California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C.  Ms. Park has obtained favorable bench and jury verdicts, injunctive relief and summary judgment on behalf of clients seeking to protect their trade secrets and to 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 regularly counsels clients on litigation avoidance and provides cost-effective, practical advice in litigation prevention.

Ms. Park is the former Chair of the Firm’s Diversity Committee.  In 2015, Ms. Park assisted in creating the firm’s women’s affinity group, “Women at Vedder Empowering Success” (WAVES) and served as the Chicago office Chair.  She is Chair of the Firm’s Associate Evaluation Committee and also serves on the Firm’s Associate Hiring Committee.

In 2018, Ms. Park was named to the Crain’s Custom Media “Chicago Notable Women Lawyers” list. She is co-author of a chapter in the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s Business and Commercial Litigation practice handbook, published in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2022.  Ms. Park was identified by her peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the Commercial Litigation category. She was also selected by Illinois Super Lawyers as a Rising Star from 2011-2012 and as a Super Lawyer for 2023-2024.

In addition to her legal work, she is the immediate past President and current Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Asian Human Services, a non-profit social services agency that provides health care, education, employment and other services to underserved immigrant and refugee populations in the Chicago area.  She also recently served as President of the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago, the Midwest’s largest association of Asian American attorneys, judges and law students.

Jeanah Park

Shareholder

Chair, Associate Evaluation Committee


Education

  • University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 2002, cum laude
  • Northwestern University, B.A., 1998

Jeanah Park

Shareholder

Chair, Associate Evaluation Committee


Bar Admissions

  • Illinois, 2002
  • Colorado, 2022

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Supreme Court, 2016
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, including Trial Bar, 2012
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2003
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 2020
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2002
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, 2011
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 2017
  • U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 2021

Affiliations

  • Vice-President, Board of Directors, Asian Human Services
  • Past President, Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago
  • Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
  • Member, Labor and Employment Law Committee, Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter
  • 2019 Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity

Jeanah Park

Shareholder

Chair, Associate Evaluation Committee