Javier Perez

Jay has extensive experience with e-discovery and the issues that arise with electronically stored information (ESI) under the civil discovery rules and the rules of evidence. He has managed teams of discovery attorneys and created protocols for their review of ESI using discovery platforms and case management tools (e.g., Relativity, CaseMap, Casepoint) to analyze documents for attorney-client privilege and attorney work product issues, and to select evidence for use at depositions and trial, in both construction and other complex cases.

Before becoming a staff attorney at Stoel Rives, Jay was a contract attorney with the firm (2016–2021, 2010–2013), during which time he was a member of litigation teams representing both public and private clients against construction contractors for major Seattle area transportation and utilities projects and a major high-rise residential project.

Jay has prepared translations of foreign-language documents from his native Spanish and, in collaboration with native speakers, from French, for use as deposition and trial exhibits in complex construction cases involving international parties and witnesses. He also translates legal documents as part of his pro-bono work, especially on Federal immigration asylum matters for persons fleeing from persecution and domestic violence in their home countries.