Jackson Walker partners John Jackson and Sara Hollan Chelette both earned certification as a Certified Information Privacy Professional through The International Association of Privacy Professionals.

The CIPP credential, offered since 2004, gives privacy professionals the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of privacy laws and regulations and how to apply them.

For more than seventeen years, John Jackson has represented a wide variety of clients in intellectual property and complex commercial litigation matters in federal and state courts throughout the country, and in the International Trade Commission. John has served as trial counsel in more than 100 patent infringement lawsuits, including numerous cases in the Tyler, Marshall and Texarkana Divisions of the Eastern District of Texas, and in Delaware. John has tried a major patent infringement case to a jury and has considerable experience with all aspects of the claim construction or Markman process in patent infringement lawsuits. John’s patent infringement lawsuits have involved a wide variety of technology including software, internet applications, consumer electronics, oil drilling technology, mechanical devices, chemical compositions and business methods. John also has substantial experience obtaining and resisting temporary restraining orders, preliminary and permanent injunctions.

Sara Chelette is a partner in the litigation section of Jackson Walker. Her practice focuses on corporate and construction litigation. Sara’s corporate litigation practice involves fiduciary litigation, including partnership and trust disputes, as well as insurance coverage litigation. Her construction practice involves cases relating to construction defects, breaches of contract, and mechanic’s liens. Sara received her B.S., magna cum laude, from Texas A&M University – College Station and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Baylor University School of Law.