Experienced advocate and respected mentor
Jay Yasso focuses his practice on medical malpractice, automobile negligence, and personal injury. He has litigated, mediated and facilitated numerous multi-million dollar settlements on behalf of injured victims for over two decades, and his experience and expertise allows him to sit on mediation panels in Oakland, Wayne and Macomb County Circuit Courts.
For the last 29 years Jay has also focused on representing individuals and businesses in the entertainment industry, including representing record companies, recording artists, music and film producers, production companies, artist managers, agents, songwriters, music publishers, models and modeling agencies, authors and literary publishers. Services provided to entertainment clients include counseling clients in the entertainment field, contract drafting and negotiation and litigation.
Jay has been actively involved at St. Regis Parish and was elected to the Board of Directors of the School Finance Committee and the school’s Capital Campaign Committee. He is also a member of the St. Regis Booster’s Club and Dad’s Club, and has been a basketball coach, counselor, and mentor for boys and girls participating in Catholic Youth Organization for the past 15 years.
Jay also sits on the board of the D-MAN Foundation, a non-profit devoted to helping people with disabilities, and for which he has worked to build a music therapy studio, earning him the nickname “The Music Man.”
Accomplishments
- Multi-million dollar settlement for industrial accident resulting in death
- Multi-million dollar settlement for delay in treatment in the Emergency Department resulting in massive heart attack, permanent brain damage
- Multi-million dollar settlement for vascular surgery gone bad resulting in the amputation of two legs and a colostomy bag
- Multi-million dollar settlement for bus/car accident resulting in death
- Multi-million dollar settlement involving poorly manufactured hampers resulting in permanent loss of vision in one eye in a 10-year old boy.
Memberships
- State Bar of Michigan -Arts, Communications, Entertainment &Sports Section (ACES)
- American Bar Association
- Michigan Association for Justice
- International Association of Entertainment Lawyers
- Sports Lawyers Association
- Arabic American Chamber of Commerce
- Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors
- Lebanese American Chamber of Commerce
- Case Evaluator, Oakland, Wayne and Macomb Counties
- University of Detroit School of Law, Juris Doctor (JD)
- Wayne State University, Masters of Arts in International Relations, magna cum laude
- Boston College, Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with distinction
- Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
One of my strengths as an attorney is my ability to be a great advocate and litigator for my clients.
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