Jeff Jackson’s legal practice is focused on providing his transportation/logistics industry clients with fast, comprehensive yet pragmatic counsel on all manner of transactional and operational issues. Jackson regularly advises industry clients (be they motor carriers, brokers, forwarders, equipment lessors, shippers, etc.) on a wide range of transportation-centered concerns, including:

1. Transportation Operations & Structure: Offering guidance on organizational structures, day-to-day operations, and strategies for restructuring to ensure asset protection and corporate separateness, including the use of intercompany arrangements.
2. Contract Negotiation & Drafting: Specializing in transportation and logistics-related contracts, including review and negotiation of agreements across various sectors of the industry.
3. Regulatory Compliance: Assisting clients with federal and state regulatory concerns, particularly regarding transportation entity licensing, operating authorities, and compliance with transportation regulations.
4. Third-Party Logistics (3PL): Addressing issues specific to non-asset and tech-enabled logistics providers.
5. Independent Contractor & Owner-Operator Issues: Providing counsel on independent contractor and owner-operator arrangements, including challenges to classification and strategies for mitigating reclassification risks.
6. Leasing Arrangements: Advising on lease/purchase and lease-back programs, as well as equipment leasing in the transportation industry, while ensuring compliance with federal leasing regulations.
7. Intermodal Transportation: Offering expertise on intermodal issues affecting the transportation and logistics sector.
8. Workers’ Compensation Premium Audits: Defending motor carriers and property brokers in workers’ compensation premium audit disputes.
9. Freight Charge Disputes: Regularly advising clients collection disputes.
10. Cargo Claims: Offering counsel to parties on all sides of cargo loss claims.

• Indiana University, B.A.
• Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, J.D.