Ochs Law Firm
Pharmaceutical Injury Lawyers
About Jason Ochs
General and Managing Partner of the Ochs Law Firm
Jason Edward Ochs is the general and managing partner of the Ochs Law Firm and is licensed in California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Arizona and Wyoming.
Jason started his career in 2004 with a nationwide pharmaceutical injury litigation firm in California where he practiced complex product liability.
In 2006, he joined the Orange County District Attorney’s office to refine his trial skills, trying multiple high-profile cases to verdict.
In 2007 he was recruited by, and joined, a Southern California catastrophic injury firm to lead their pharmaceutical injury litigation department where he remained until he found the Ochs Law Firm in 2012.
From 2008 through 2011, Jason was a member of the expert committee and deposition teams in the federal In Re Gadolinium MDL venued in Cleveland, Ohio against GE Healthcare, Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Mallinckrodt. Jason took more than 50 depositions in the pharmaceutical litigation in 2010 alone all over the country, including deposing GE Healthcare’s Global Pharmacovigilance department head in Oslo, Norway.
In 2009, Jason was selected by his peers to chair the expert committee in the coordinated California-state gadolinium cases venued in San Francisco.
From 2009 through 2011, in the Advanced Medical Optics litigation involving hundreds of cases consolidated in Orange County, California against Fortune 500 company Abott Laboratories, Jason spear-headed the plaintiffs’ electronic-discovery committee and was an active member of the deposition team.
In 2013 Mr. Ochs filed a mass action against Golden Corral in Casper, Wyoming for what turned out to be the largest food poisoning outbreak ever in the United States.
In 2017, Jason’s firm filed a number of cases seeking recovery for opioid abuse in the nationwide opioid epidemic litigation, representing eleven counties / cities across four states.
In 2018, Jason became lead trial counsel in a bellwether case in the Roundup weed killer litigation against Monsanto in US District Court in Illinois.
In 2020, the Ochs Law Firm was retained by the Natrona County School District in Wyoming to seek damages against Juul, the maker of e-cigarettes. The case is currently being worked up as a nationwide bellwether trial case.
In 2022, Jason was contacted by a fire fighter who had fell ill to kidney cancer as a result of fire-fighting foam. Jason now represents over 100 firefighters in his fight to hold the toxic foam manufactures responsible for their cancers and related injuries.
Mr. Ochs has been named by the National Trial Lawyers Association as a Top 100 Lawyer in California and has been further recognized as a “Super Star Lawyer” by both Los Angeles Magazine and Orange Coast Magazine since 2012. He is recognized as a Super Lawyer in the Mountain States and is a former board member of the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association.
Jason has tried multiple cases throughout the country and holds the largest personal injury verdict ever awarded out of Casper, Wyoming. He is also a member of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates.
Ochs Law Firm
9210 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
(949) 309-0559