Jack Boos is a partner in K&L Gates' San Francisco office. His practice focuses on domestic and international business litigation, arbitration and mediation, investigations, construction, international expropriation and other claims, insurance coverage, intellectual property, employment, products and financial services. He is a veteran advocate with numerous court and jury trials and arbitrations.
Mr. Boos has participated in various international proceedings and dispute resolution including representation of expropriation claimants against the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague. He also has appeared before the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva with respect to Gulf War claims against Iraq. He has spoken widely in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia on litigation, arbitration, construction, environmental and insurance coverage topics.
In 2006, Mr. Boos was invited by the Russian-American Rule of Law Consortium to speak to a conference of Russian jurists in Yuzhno-Sakalinsk Russia on the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.
In addition to his experience as an advocate in various forms of dispute resolution, Mr. Boos has extensive service as an Arbitrator, Early Neutral Evaluator and Settlement Master including appointments by state and federal courts in California, the Bar Association of San Francisco and by the Private Adjudication Center of Duke University.
His community service activities include leadership in youth sports in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he served eight terms as president of North Oakland Little League Baseball, and as a member of the Mayor's Sports Advisory Council.
Before joining K&L Gates, Mr. Boos practiced in the San Francisco office of two other national firms where he was a partner and head of the litigation group. Prior to entering private practice he was Counsel and Legislative Assistant to a Member of Congress, Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services, and Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence to Investigate the Activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community.