Jon practices labor and employment law representing mainly labor unions and individuals. After working for the Federal Aviation Administration and then the Air Line Pilots Association in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco he founded his law practice in Seattle – and first subscribed to the Symphony – in 1977. Jon earned his B.A. in biology at Hobart College in Geneva, NY in 1965 and his J.D. from St. John's University School of Law in his hometown of Brooklyn, NY in 1968.