Micah Jacobs is a formidable trial attorney and litigation strategist with approximately 30 years of experience handling complex business, commercial, intellectual property, technology, entertainment, employment, and securities disputes. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in high stakes matters in state and federal courts throughout the United States, including cases involving contract disputes, patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, securities fraud, entertainment industry conflicts, and cross border business disputes.

Micah is a Partner at Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo, where he serves clients from the firm’s Marin office. His practice focuses on complex commercial, business, and intellectual property litigation, including bet the company disputes involving core technologies, valuable business assets, confidential information, and critical contractual rights. He is known for combining aggressive trial preparation with practical business judgment, enabling clients to pursue strong courtroom positions while also identifying strategic opportunities for resolution when settlement serves the client’s best interests.

Over the course of his career, Micah has secured unanimous jury verdicts, multimillion dollar settlements, dispositive motion victories, and significant appellate wins. He has represented leading internet, technology, and Silicon Valley companies, as well as entrepreneurs, inventors, business owners, artists, authors, entertainment professionals, startups, and established companies in matters where business value, intellectual property ownership, reputation, and control were at stake.

Among his most notable results, Micah secured a $23 million settlement in a widely publicized securities fraud case involving Homestore.com, representing business owners who had sold their company for allegedly artificially inflated Homestore stock shortly before the company announced accounting irregularities and its stock price collapsed. In that matter, Micah persuaded a federal district court judge to require Homestore to place more than $50 million in escrow pending the outcome of the litigation, a major strategic victory that helped drive the case toward resolution.

Micah has substantial experience in intellectual property litigation involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, theft of ideas, and unfair competition. He has served as trial counsel in a global IP misappropriation matter involving the Indian Institute of Technology and the Republic of India, where he successfully defeated multiple motions, including a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act defense. He has also obtained dismissal for a large internet marketing company accused of patent infringement in litigation where claims continued against other major technology companies, including Citrix, Microsoft, and Adobe.

In the entertainment sector, Micah secured unanimous jury verdicts in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of a television and film actor in claims against his agent, business manager, and financial advisor for breach of contract and failure to perform to industry standards. Those verdicts were unanimously affirmed by the California Court of Appeal, further underscoring his ability to win at trial and defend those victories on appeal.