Joseph J. Zelasko (Joe)

Joe Zelasko represents clients in their most important commercial disputes with an emphasis on the defense of product liability, mass tort, and construction cases. Joe has significant experience defending clients in a variety of complex proceedings, including federal MDLs (multidistrict litigations), coordinated state proceedings, and consolidated multiplaintiff cases. Joe's experience includes work for Sherwin-Williams, Abbott Laboratories, Fluor, U. S. Steel, Nationwide Realty Investors, Cardinal Health, and the University of Notre Dame.

Joe excels in all phases of litigation, including at trial. He has experience examining witnesses in federal court and was recently part of a team that obtained a complete defense verdict in a key bellwether trial. Joe also has robust experience working with and against expert witnesses in a variety of fields, including engineers, statisticians, historians, marketing and advertising professionals, and many types of medical professionals.

Joe maintains an active pro bono practice focused on immigration law. He has represented individual clients and an immigrant justice organization before the immigration courts and the United States Courts of Appeals. Prior to joining Jones Day, Joe clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.