PROFILE

Tazewell Jones represents public companies and their leadership teams in high stakes securities litigation spanning federal and state courts. He also has secured client victories before the United States Supreme Court and has negotiated client-favorable outcomes involving federal agencies. 

Taz regularly advises public company management and boards on a wide range of shareholder disputes, including: 

• Federal class actions
• SPAC transaction disputes
• Securities Act challenges
• Exchange Act litigation
• Post-bankruptcy proceedings

Taz is a member of the firm’s Associates Committee and Charitable Contributions and Community Service Committee. He also was a member of the firm’s Recruiting Committee.

Following law school, Taz clerked for Chief Judge Pamela Reeves and Chief Judge Travis McDonough of the Eastern District of Tennessee and Judge Daniel Crabtree in the District of Kansas.

Prior to attending the University of Virginia School of Law, Taz was vice president and chief of staff to several communications agencies in Washington, D.C., where he advised public companies and industry organizations on media, political, and public communications strategies.

While in law school, Taz served on the editorial board for the Virginia Journal of International Law, as a senator and director of programming for the Student Bar Association, and held multiple executive positions for the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law and Lambda Law Alliance.

Taz maintains an active pro bono practice focused largely on post-conviction litigation to exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals. Outside of his work with the firm, Taz has served as a director for JusticeAid, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization leveraging the arts and public engagement to empower legal aid and social justice causes.

Taz was previously a summer associate in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and an intern for the Office of the Public Defender for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church, Virginia.