Jin is a member of Butler Snow’s Drug and Medical Device Litigation Practice Group. He handles a diverse range of matters including nationwide multidistrict product liability litigation, healthcare liability actions, and pro bono matters. He wears many hats, drafting and arguing motions, managing complex e-discovery, analyzing complex medical records and engineering documents, taking and defending depositions, and coordinating litigation teams. Jin uses his background in computer science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to work with clients, practitioners, and academics to advance the development of technology law. He also has experience litigating trademark and copyright disputes in federal and state courts and the USPTO. As a first-generation American and Japanese native speaker, he is heavily involved in activities advancing U.S.-Japan economic and cultural exchange, the Asian-Pacific Islander community, and diversity and inclusion.
Overview
Jin is a member of Butler Snow’s Drug and Medical Device Litigation Practice Group. He handles a diverse range of matters including nationwide multidistrict product liability litigation, healthcare liability actions, and pro bono matters. He wears many hats, drafting and arguing motions, managing complex e-discovery, analyzing complex medical records and engineering documents, taking and defending depositions, and coordinating litigation teams. Jin uses his background in computer science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to work with clients, practitioners, and academics to advance the development of technology law. He also has experience litigating trademark and copyright disputes in federal and state courts and the USPTO. As a first-generation American and Japanese native speaker, he is heavily involved in activities advancing U.S.-Japan economic and cultural exchange, the Asian-Pacific Islander community, and diversity and inclusion.
Practice Areas
About
Jin brings to projects a wide range of experience and knowledge.
Jin has a Bachelor of Science in computer science, with a specialty in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Not only is he versed in this cutting-edge scientific field, authoring several articles per year on the subject, he is comfortable quickly familiarizing himself with all kinds of technical matters.
He spent two years as an associate consultant in the Tokyo office of Bain & Company, where he advised a U.S. technology company on its growth and cost optimization strategy in Japan. For six years, he was a production manager on international film shoots, coordinating cross-border teams in a variety of remote locations.
At Vanderbilt Law School, he was the editor-in-chief of the nationally-ranked technology law journal, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law. In that role, he led a 50-person team in producing a large volume of well-cited academic scholarship and organizing a legal symposium attracting over two hundred attendees.
One of Jin’s passions is to help promote the growth of the Asian American business and legal communities. He is a native Japanese speaker and associate member of the United States-Japan Council. He is also actively involved with the Japan-America Society of Tennessee. He is the co-chair of the Nashville Bar Association’s Diversity Committee. He is also deeply involved with Butler Snow’s recruiting and DEI committees.
Experience
- Argued and won a motion to dismiss a health care liability action against a hospital in Tennessee state court.
- Argued and won a motion for partial dismissal of a medical product liability action in Utah federal court.
- Briefed dispositive motions for medical device manufacturer in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and won full dismissal of case.
- Was second chair on healthcare liability action in Tennessee state court.
- Participated in several large multidistrict product liability litigations, with substantial experience on case workup, motion writing, pleading drafting, and e-discovery.
- Has taken depositions of numerous fact and expert witnesses and prepared and defended company witnesses.
- Has worked with multiple medical, scientific, and regulatory expert witnesses in drafting expert reports and preparing for testimonies.
- Has drafted motions in state and federal trial courts across the country, as well as filed a petition for appeal to Tennessee’s highest court.
- Has reviewed and analyzed pre-market approval applications of a class III medical device.
- Performed legal research and analysis for an emerging entertainment technology service.
- Assisted and advised a Japanese national on a matter during the national’s stay in Tennessee.
- Obtained a divorce for an indigent pro bono client.
Distinctions
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinders, 2024
- U.S.-Japan Council, Emerging Leaders Program, 2022
- Lawyers of Color - Hot List, 2022
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 2020
- U.S. District Courts
- Tennessee: Eastern, Middle, Western
Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2020
- Editor in Chief, VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT & TECHNOLOGY LAW
- Dean’s List
- Scholastic Excellence Award in Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (awarded by Professor Daniel Gervais)
- Scholastic Excellence Award in Introduction to Accounting (awarded by Professor Teresa Sebastian)
- Phi Delta Phi
- Legal Volunteer, Vanderbilt Medical-Legal Partnership
- Legal Volunteer, Legal Aid Society Street Law
- Ambassadors at Vanderbilt Law School
- Moot Court
- Mock Trial
- Columbia University, B.S., Computer Science, 2009
- Dean’s List
- Treasurer, Columbia Japan Society
- Columbia University Translating and Tutoring Agency
- Columbia Debate Society
Associations
- U.S.-Japan Council
- Associate
- Japan-America Society of Tennessee
- Tennessee Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Board Member, 2022-2023
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Nashville Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- Diversity Committee, co-chair 2023-2024
- American Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- Section of Science and Technology Law
- Health Law Section
- Law Practice Division
- Tennessee Bar Association
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- CLE Moderator, Protecting Human Creativity in Our AI Era, Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville, Nov. 12, 2024.
- Panelist, ‘Not every risk is foreseeable:’ What Nashville business leaders should know about AI, Nashville Business Journal, Oct. 15, 2024.
- Interviewee, アーティストの声の権利を守る「エルビス法」 生成AIと向き合う米国音楽業界, DG LAB HAUS, Sep. 24, 2024.
- Interviewee, The Lawsuits Shaping AI's Future, Nashville Business Journal, Sep. 5, 2024.
- Interviewee, AIの“ニセ歌手音声”を防げ アメリカで通称「エルビス法」成立 「声」を個人の財産として保護【現場から】, TBS NEWS DIG, July 2, 2024.
- Interviewee, Taylor Swift could totally sue Donald Trump, Quartz, Aug. 20, 2024.
- Co-Author, Is Japan still a machine learning paradise?, World Intellectual Property Review, Apr. 19, 2024.
- Interviewee, No rest for Adams and Reese AI attorney Jin Yoshikawa. Here's what clients are asking, Nashville Business Journal, Apr. 5, 2024.
- Interviewee, Suspicious minds: Tennessee firms scrutinise AI soundalike law, Managing IP, Mar. 28, 2024.
- Co-Author, Straight to the Prompt: IP Lawyers Must Develop AI Skills NOW, IP Watchdog, Dec. 6, 2023.
- Co-Author, "Can What the Supreme Court Said About Device Clearance in Lohr, a “Derelict on the Waters of the Law,” Finally Be Sunk?," Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 15, No. 4, December 2022.
- Guest Columnist, "Relationship with Asian and Pacific Islander community makes Tennessee a global leader | Opinion," The Tennessean, July 5, 2022.
- Speaker, "Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: How We Got Here and the Laws That Impacted Our Journey," Tennessee Asian Pacific American Bar Association, May 20, 2022.
- Co-Author, "Looking Beyond the Pandemic – AI and Digital Health Kick into Warp Speed," Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2021.
- Organizer, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law’s Annual Symposium, Can Law Free Us from Technology’s “Spheres of Influence”, February 2020.
- Author, Sharing the Costs of Artificial Intelligence: Universal No-Fault Social Insurance for Personal Injuries, 21 VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 1155 (2019).