Jordan Eth Partner, Morrison & Foerster

Mr. Eth is co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s national Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White-Collar Defense Group. For more than twenty years, he has specialized in representing public companies and their officers and directors in securities class actions, SEC investigations, derivative suits, and internal investigations. Mr. Eth has been described in Chambers USA as “extraordinarily energetic” with a “strong, intelligent demeanor”; “his ‘completely honest and straightforward attitude’ also wins him fans among peers.” Mr. Eth has represented companies in a wide range of industries, from software to biotech to consumer products and financial services.

Mr. Eth received his B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College in 1980, with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Stanford University in 1985, Order of the Coif. At Stanford, Mr. Eth was Co-President of the Moot Court Board. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge Robert F. Peckham, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, from August 1985 through August 1986. From 1980 through 1982, Mr. Eth worked as an economist in Washington, D.C., first for the United States Department of Energy and then for the Budget Committee of the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Eth joined Morrison & Foerster in 1986 and became a partner in 1992. Mr. Eth participates in community activities and coaches his two sons in baseball and soccer.