Maurice Blackburn

Key practice areas: Class Actions & Major Projects
Qualifications: LLM, Dip Law, Dip Legal Practice Management
Location: Sydney (NSW)

Jason Geisker has represented a diverse range of clients across a wide range of practice areas. He has extensive class action and commercial litigation experience having acted in numerous cases including bankruptcy and insolvency, banking, construction, corporations law, consumer and regulatory law, contract disputes, equity and estate litigation, insurance and professional negligence claims.

Some of Jason's more high profile cases include:

• a $39.5 million settlement obtained from AWB Ltd, for over 1,400 investors in 2010. The case was brought against AWB after its share price collapsed on revelations of kickbacks paid to the former Iraqi regime during the UN Oil-For-Food Program
• a successful investor class action on behalf of hundreds of investors involving radiata pine plantation unregistered managed investment schemes in NSW
• a shareholder class action against Nufarm Ltd seeking compensation for investors as a result of inadequate disclosures to the ASX by Nufarm during the FY2010 period
• public examinations relating to the City Pacific Limited's insolvency and the Pacific First Mortgage Fund
• a Federal Court shareholder class action against Gunns Ltd seeking compensation for over 300 investors resulting from Gunns' failure to make adequate disclosures to the ASX in connection with its poor 1H2010 performance. 

Since 1995 Jason has also actively worked on various legal and policy reforms including access to justice issues and civil procedure. Jason is a former Secretary and Treasurer of NSW Young Lawyers and has held positions on the Human Rights, Criminal Law and Civil Litigation Committees of NSW Young Lawyers between 1996 and 2010. Jason was also a senior editor and contributing author to the 'Practitioners' Guide to Civil Litigation' (2nd ed 2006, 3rd ed 2010, NSW Young Lawyers, Sydney).