Jason A. Archinaco

Jason A. Archinaco was raised by one of the original Rosie the Riveters and brought up under a code of honesty, integrity, and hard work. His father was the first in the family to attend college; Jason followed by becoming the first to attend and graduate law school.

After earning his law degree, Jason began his legal career in Pittsburgh, focusing on litigation. He quickly advanced from handling lower-level arbitrations and trials to being selected as third chair in a major antitrust case (In re Ferrisilicon), working alongside the esteemed trial attorney David J. Armstrong, Esq.

That case marked the beginning of a series of high-profile assignments. Jason went on to litigate a case that attracted both local and national media attention (Dwyer), followed by legal milestones including the first domain name squatting case (Zippo.com) and the first application of federal wiretap statutes to the theft of email (Labwerks v. Sladecutter).

In 2002, Jason took on a significant matter representing a large corporate client in a California dealership dispute. He opened, staffed, and ran the firm’s California office for two years, culminating in a $44.9 million verdict. This was followed by two additional successful verdicts involving alter ego liability and concealed assets ($12.8 million and $6 million, respectively), as well as securing over $500,000 in discovery sanctions for spoliation of evidence.

Jason’s first law review article, Virtual Worlds, Real Damages: The Odd Case of American Hero, the Greatest Horse that May Have Lived (2006), has been widely cited and helped establish him as a legal pioneer in the emerging field of virtual property. It directly led to his successful representation in Bragg v. Linden Labs, the first virtual property lawsuit in the United States. That landmark case attracted national attention and earned him an invitation to speak before the New York Bar Association, where he appeared on a panel alongside Google’s then-General Counsel.

In 2008, Jason secured the second-largest single-claimant award in FINRA history—$12 million—proving that senior executives had scapegoated lower-level managers in the infamous Wall Street market timing scandal that also drew scrutiny from then–Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and resulted in a record $600 million civil penalty (Carl v. Alliance Bernstein).

In January 2014, Jason obtained the 17th largest jury verdict in the United States that year, according to the National Law Journal, when a jury awarded a spastic quadriplegic victim of medical negligence a substantial verdict (Ciechoski v. Phoenixville Hospital).

In April 2015, Jason and his wife Paula made headlines when a visit from the iconic Los Angeles mountain lion P-22 sparked a national media frenzy. Their story was featured on 60 Minutes, and the couple became unofficial ambassadors for the National Wildlife Federation.

In May 2015, Jason successfully represented the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation in a complex matter involving asset dissipation by a hedge fund manager. The litigation concluded with full recovery of the Foundation’s funds.

In December 2018, Jason obtained a landmark jury verdict on behalf of two co-founders of TuneCore, who had been denied the value of their vested stock options after the company refused to honor its obligations. The jury awarded the plaintiffs 100 cents on the dollar, plus interest dating back to the original breach—fully vindicating their rights after a protracted legal battle.

Jason has been quoted and interviewed in numerous publications including Business Week, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Today, he limits media access and focuses on high-impact cases and innovative legal frontiers.