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John Zen Jackson
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John focuses his practice on civil litigation including trial and appellate advocacy, primarily in the healthcare area, as well as in healthcare regulatory and compliance matters. He has represented healthcare providers in the defense of professional liability claims, licensure and credentialing disputes, reimbursement disputes, insurance coverage and insurance fraud cases, qui tam actions under the Federal False Claims Act, and hospital privilege disputes including termination litigation. He has authoritative expertise in medical liability, biomedical ethics, and end-of-life issues.

Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney, John has litigated matters in judicial forums, trying numerous jury trials to verdict, and has appeared extensively before state administrative agencies and hospital credentialing committees. He has assisted healthcare entities seeking to outsource the handling of physician investigations, and physicians facing investigative inquiries and disciplinary charges before the Board of Medical Examiners (BME). He handles the full range of BME proceedings, including responding to an initial inquiry and appearing at a preliminary evaluation, responding to Orders to Show Cause and temporary suspension applications, hearings in the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), addressing the BME on disposition and discipline issues, argument of appeals before the Appellate Division, and appearances before the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey, 1975
  • New York, 2005
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 2007
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1987
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 2016
  • U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 2015
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1975
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2008

Education

  • Seton Hall Law School, J.D., 1975
  • Tufts University, B.A., 1972

Clerkships

  • Former Law Clerk to The Hon. Richard J. Hughes, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1975-1976)
  • Appointed to the New Jersey Supreme Court District Ethics Committee for District VII (Mercer County), which is charged with investigating and prosecuting alleged violations of attorney ethics rules by members of the New Jersey Bar (2025-2029)
  • Trial Attorneys of New Jersey; President (1999)
  • New Jersey State Bar Association; Health Law Section; Civil Trial Bar Section
  • Medical History Society of New Jersey; Vice President
  • New Jersey Supreme Court Board on Attorney Certification; Chair (2008-2011)
  • New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Certification Committee; Chair (2008-2011); Member (1997-2011)
  • New Jersey Supreme Court Board on Continuing Legal Education (Former Member)
  • Penn Medicine Princeton Health;  Biomedical Ethics Committee
  • American College of Trial Lawyers; Legal Ethics and Professionalism Committee

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