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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 00:43:40+00:00

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For more than 30 years, Michael L. Kirby has been involved in civil litigation, trying more than 50 jury trials throughout his career and obtaining total recoveries valued in excess of $275 million as lead counsel. His expertise is extensive and covers a variety of practice areas that involve business, partnerships, real estate and investor disputes. He has received multiple Outstanding Trial Lawyer awards from Consumer Attorneys of San Diego (CASD).
A founding partner at KIRBY & KIRBY LLP (and formerly a founding partner of Post Kirby Noonan & Sweat), Kirby is recognized as one of the most well-respected trial lawyers in San Diego County.
Kirby is listed in Best Lawyers® – the leading rating of U.S. lawyers – for Bet The Company Litigation (San Diego Lawyer of the Year 2015) and Commercial Litigation for multiple years.
Since 1994, Kirby has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) – a national organization of civil trial attorneys – and has served on its national board of directors. He is a master in the American Inns of Court – William B. Enright Chapter. Kirby was also named one of the top attorneys in California – five years in a row – by California Super Lawyers magazine, an honor given to only five percent of attorneys in the state.
He was a founder of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers of San Diego, served four years as a Southern District of California Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit and is the president of the San Diego chapter of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms.
In his spare time, Kirby enjoys golfing and traveling with his wife, fly fishing and playing with his grandchildren.
For almost 20 years, Jason Michael Kirby has represented hundreds of clients in litigation cases throughout Southern California. Kirby's primary practice areas are business and real estate litigation, but he has handled almost every form of civil litigation case at some point during his career.
Kirby is a plaintiff's lawyer and a defense lawyer. He has tried numerous cases on each side of the courtroom. He is convinced that doing both plaintiff's work and defense work gives him a better perspective on the evidence and strategy in every case.
As lead trial counsel in a 2018 jury trial, Kirby obtained a $2.1 million jury verdict in a sexual abuse case against a teacher and the San Diego Unified School District. As lead counsel in a 2017 arbitration, Kirby successfully defended claims made by an unlicensed broker-dealer that was trying to collect a deal fee on a multi-million dollar stock sale of a well-known, local pet food company. In so doing, he also obtained a Judgment against the unlicensed broker-dealer for over $1 million comprising damages on a cross-complaint, attorney's fees, costs, and interest.
Kirby is rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbel®, which reflects the highest level of professional excellence. His rating is measured by both those lawyers in San Diego that have worked with him on cases and by those lawyers that were on the other side of his cases. His rating and lawyer feedback about him is publicly available at www.martindale.com. For the past 6 years, Kirby has been listed as one of the Top Lawyers for Business Litigation by San Diego Magazine.
While in law school, Kirby served as a full-time law clerk at the San Diego Superior Court for the Honorable J. Richard Haden (Ret.), an independent calendar judge assigned to more than 500 civil cases. In 2001, Kirby started his career at Post, Kirby, Noonan & Sweat, one of then top litigation firms in San Diego. In 2007, Kirby was admitted as a partner to Kirby, Noonan, Lance & Hoge. Kirby remained a partner until July 1, 2016. He and his father then started their own firm, KIRBY & KIRBY LLP.
Kirby lives in Point Loma with his wife, Jill, and daughter, Chloe. Kirby enjoys skiing, playing music, and being at home with his family.
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