DICELLO LEVITT - Key Persons
Adam's strategic risk taking in high-profile cases has paid off in billions of dollars for his clients.
Adam's strategic risk taking in high-profile cases has paid off in billions of dollars for his clients.
Adam Prom has contributed significantly to and led a variety of complex litigations that have resulted in settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including class actions and multidistrict litigation (MDLs). He has represented consumers, small and large businesses, whistleblowers, and public entities in all manner of cases, including those involving consumer protection, privacy, product liability and automotive defects, environmental contamination, False Claims Act qui tam, and business disputes. Adam's broad knowledge base and experience sets him apart and allows him to successfully traverse any practice area at the firm, all the while focusing on redressing harm caused by others' unscrupulous business practices. Adam has represented consumers and businesses against industry titans like Google, Meta, CVS, Nissan, and Navistar. He has been listed annually since 2019 as an Illinois Rising Star by Super Lawyers, and he is part of the firm's Cybersecurity & Privacy team, which Law360 recognized as "Group of the Year" for three consecutive years (2020-2022).
In addition to monetary recoveries for the firm's clients, Adam also pursues important injunctive relief to correct business practices moving forward. In one case, in addition to a settlement fund of $21 million, Adam served as part of a team that obtained an agreed injunction to ensure the humane treatment of animals. In other cases involving privacy and cybersecurity, Adam and his colleagues are at the forefront of not only pursuing and obtaining large settlements but also the deletion of ill-gotten personal data and prevention of other personal intrusions.
Beyond his class action work, Adam has substantial trial experience in state and federal court, and he has successfully led and won multiple arbitrations for individual consumers and businesses, including a multi-day arbitration against a multi-billion dollar group of trusts.
Adam has demonstrated a commitment to public service, and is active in multiple legal advocacy organizations including Public Justice, the American Association for Justice, and other state and federal bar associations. Adam also serves on the Chicago Bar Association's Judicial Evaluation Committee and has volunteered his time to multiple organizations in Chicago, particularly mentoring students.
Practice Areas
Agriculture and Biotechnology
Anna Claire is part of the DiCello Levitt team working with several states in investigating and addressing poly- and perfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) contamination. DiCello Levitt's PFAS team, along with other Special Assistant Attorneys General and the Illinois Attorney General, most recently filed a lawsuit against 3M for PFAS contamination from its facility in Cordova, IL. Cases involving these "forever chemicals" will have wide-reaching implications for state governments and their residents.
Anna Claire also works with communities that have been impacted by years of exposure to polluted air, water, and soil. Recently, Anna Claire and DiCello Levitt's environmental team joined with co-counsel in representing several residents and former residents of Union, Illinois in filing suit against companies responsible for polluting the groundwater with carcinogenic chlorinated solvents. Anna Claire is also part of the team leading a class action on behalf of the residents of Rockton, Illinois and surrounding communities for property damages they sustained following a catastrophic fire at a local chemical factory.
In addition to her environmental work, Anna Claire also helps clients develop and maintain safety and health programs that meet all of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's regulatory requirements and ensure all employees enjoy safe and healthful workplaces. She regularly counsels clients when compliance and litigation questions arise under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
Outside of the office, Anna Claire continues her work on environmental-related issues by serving as co-chair of the Kentucky Bar Association's Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources section. She also focuses on giving back to her community through her participation on the executive committee of the Living Arts and Science Center Board of Directors.
Practice Areas
Environmental Litigation
Blake believes in the power of class actions to make people whole and to hold businesses, government, and other entities accountable.
Blake believes in the power of class actions to make people whole and to hold businesses, government, and other entities accountable.
Brian's litigation practice focuses on holding businesses accountable for fair practices that keep prices and markets competitive.
Brian's litigation practice focuses on holding businesses accountable for fair practices that keep prices and markets competitive.
Brian O'Mara is a partner in DiCello Levitt's San Diego office. His practice focuses on complex securities, antitrust, and consumer protection litigation in state and federal courts across the United States.
Over the past 20 years, Brian has served as lead or co-lead counsel in numerous shareholder, consumer protection, and antitrust actions involving companies in the financial services, technology, pharmaceutical, entertainment and gaming, and telecommunications industries, which have yielded billions of dollars in recoveries. He has helped institutional investors protect their fund investments by securing leadership positions in dozens of securities and antitrust actions and has been responsible for a number of significant trial and appellate court rulings in the securities and antitrust space.
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Brian was a partner at a leading complex litigation law firm and served as chief underwriter officer for a global private equity and advisory firm specializing in litigation finance, judgment enforcement, asset recovery, and related strategies serving claimants, law firms and other professional service firms, and businesses across the globe. In this capacity, Brian was responsible for directing the firm's underwriting process for prospective investments and managing the firm's investment portfolio, which included litigation and arbitration disputes in jurisdictions around the world.
Brian has been twice recognized by the American Antitrust Institute's Antitrust Enforcement Awards for the category of Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice for his work in the ISDAfix price-fixing litigation and the EpiPen class action alleging antitrust and RICO violations. He has also been named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine for the past six consecutive years and recognized as a Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer by Lawdragon.
Brian graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in economics, and he received his law degree from DePaul University College of Law, where he was the recipient of a CALI Excellence for the Future Award in securities regulation.
Practice Areas
Antitrust and Competition Litigation
Bruce is widely recognized as a leading litigator of complex civil actions as a result of his extensive experience and numerous successes in representing the federal government and private parties.
Bruce is widely recognized as a leading litigator of complex civil actions as a result of his extensive experience and numerous successes in representing the federal government and private parties.
Bruce Bernstein has successfully handled a wide range of commercial litigation including suits against large banks, mortgage lenders, automobile manufacturers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurers, and healthcare systems. He has successfully litigated these matters at all levels, including before the U.S. Supreme Court.
As a Trial Attorney in the Civil Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Bruce investigated, litigated, and resolved complex qui tam actions asserting claims under the False Claims Act. In addition, on behalf of the United States, he oversaw the litigation of a large action, pending in Germany, asserting securities fraud-type claims against a multinational automobile manufacturer, which was brought to recover losses incurred by the Federal Thrift Savings Plan, one of the largest defined contribution plans in the world. In private practice, he successfully litigated some of the largest securities fraud actions ever filed. Bruce was a pivotal member of the team that secured significant decisions from the Third Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court in the securities class action against Merck & Co., Inc., which arose out of Merck's alleged misrepresentations about the cardiovascular safety of its painkiller drug Vioxx. That action was ultimately resolved for more than $1 billion, which at the time of its resolution, was the largest securities recovery ever achieved on behalf of investors against a pharmaceutical company.
Bruce has also served as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School and taught written and oral advocacy. Separately, he has authored and co-authored a number of articles on developments in the federal securities laws, including co-authoring, along with several former colleagues, the first chapter of Lexis/Nexis's seminal industry guide Litigating Securities Class Actions (2010 and 2012).
Practice Areas
Class Action Litigation
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Lead Partner in Di
Caroline has an impressive track record of success for institutional investors in complex securities litigation matters.
Caroline has an impressive track record of success for institutional investors in complex securities litigation matters.
Caroline Robert is a lead partner in DiCello Levitt's Securities and Financial Services Litigation practice based in San Diego. Her practice is focused on representing institutional investors in complex securities litigation matters. With a history of high-stakes victories against Wall Street banks and large corporations, she has an impressive track record of success for clients impacted by financial misdeeds or securities regulations violations.
In the wake of 2008's worldwide financial crisis, Caroline played an integral role in litigation that secured settlements on behalf of institutional investors against Wall Street banks for their part in structuring residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) that subsequently collapsed. These matters included the high-profile action brought by China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) against Morgan Stanley to recover losses CDIB suffered as a result of its investment in the STACK 2006-1 collateralized debt obligation tied to RMBS. Caroline's experience also includes representation of international institutional investors impacted by Volkswagen and Daimler's defeat device emissions scandal in representative actions in Germany under the Capital Market Investors' Model Proceeding Act (KapMuG).
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Caroline represented clients in complex securities litigation matters and also gained experience in real estate litigation and transactions for financial institutions and other related clients.
Committed to pro bono work, Caroline has provided legal counsel through the Immigration Legal Clinic at the University of San Diego School of Law and received honor's recognition for her service. She has also provided pro bono service through the San Diego Legal Aid Society, which garnered her the State Bar of California's prestigious Wiley W. Manuel Award.
Born and raised in France, Caroline is multilingual; fluent in French, English and Spanish. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of San Diego, where she double-majored in international relations and Spanish language and literature. Caroline earned her Juris Doctor at the University of San Diego School of Law and is admitted to practice law in California, New York, and the District of Columbia.
Practice Areas
Securities and Financial Services Litigation
Education
University of San Diego School of Law, J.D.
University of San Diego, B.A., magna cum laude
Christopher has been a consistent thought leader, applying cognitive neuroscience techniques to trial advocacy for most of his 25-year career.
Christopher has been a consistent thought leader, applying cognitive neuroscience techniques to trial advocacy for most of his 25-year career.
Chris is the past president of the Wisconsin Association for Justice, having served as president of the WAJ 2014 term. He has been chosen as a Wisconsin Super Lawyer every year since 2010. He is an active member in a number of other trial lawyer associations. Chris is also fluent in Spanish.
From aggrieved investors to whistleblowers, Chuck puts his successful track record to work representing plaintiffs in complex litigation matters.
From aggrieved investors to whistleblowers, Chuck puts his successful track record to work representing plaintiffs in complex litigation matters.
Chuck Dender is an experienced litigator who has practiced at two of the country's largest law firms. With a demonstrable record of excellence and a track record of success for his clients, the foundation of Chuck's broad litigation experience was formed while defending some of the most significant commercial litigation matters in the U.S. over the last two-plus decades. While Chuck began his litigation career on the defense side of the table, he is a plaintiffs' attorney at heart. He now represents plaintiffs exclusively. With a background that includes membership in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chuck has personally experienced what it's like to be a plaintiff in need of outstanding legal representation.
Chuck's legal expertise is enhanced by his MBA, with a specialization in finance and quantitative finance from the New York University Stern School of Business. This additional accreditation and education gives Chuck a unique advantage when it comes to identifying issues related to financial crimes and damages issues, including working with economists and other expert witnesses. As proof of this point, Chuck played a key role in presenting the damages model of one of the largest financial institutions in the world after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holding, Inc.
Corban works at the forefront of law and technology, advocating for consumers and investors in high-stakes data privacy and securities fraud class actions.
Corban works at the forefront of law and technology, advocating for consumers and investors in high-stakes data privacy and securities fraud class actions.
Corban Rhodes is a seasoned litigator who has recovered more than a billion dollars for consumers and investors in some of the country's largest and most historic cybersecurity, data privacy and securities fraud cases. Working at the intersection of law and technology, Corban focuses on cases that involve the intentional misuse or misappropriation of consumer data and data breaches.
As co-lead plaintiffs' counsel in the Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation matter, Corban helped secure a landmark $650 million settlement, in one of the first cases asserting consumers' biometric privacy rights under Illinois law. He has litigated cases of negligence or malfeasance leading to data breaches, including securing a settlement with Yahoo for one of the largest known data breach in history that affected nearly 3 billion consumers. Continuing his groundbreaking work at this critical moment for privacy rights and the law, he currently represents consumers in pivotal web browser privacy cases, including the Calhoun v. Google and Google RTB Consumer Privacy Litigation matters.
Corban also prosecutes complex securities fraud cases on behalf of institutional investors, representing both large public pension funds and individual investors. He successfully resolved dozens of cases against some of the largest Wall Street banks in the wake of the mortgage-backed securities financial crisis. His work in securities fraud cases has held companies accountable to investors for fraud and market manipulation in the banking, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing sectors in some of the largest securities class actions of the last decade.
Corban has been recognized by Law360 as a Rising Star and one of five attorneys on its Top Attorneys Under 40 for Consumer Protection. He was also named by Benchmark Litigation as a Future Star and on its New York 40 Under 40 list and by Super Lawyers as a New York Rising Star, and he received a Thurgood Marshall Award for his pro bono representation of a death row inmate appealing from capital punishment. He is an active member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 11 on Data Security and Privacy Liability, and sits on the Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Editorial Board. He is a regular speaker and writer on issues related to protecting the rights of the individual against corporate malfeasance.
Practice Areas
Class Action Litigation
Dan Flynn represents governmental entities, individual consumers, and corporate clients-all with one primary goal in mind: ensuring the protection of human health and the environment. His stewardship ensures not only that polluters be held responsible for contamination and clean-up, but that corporate entities understand their responsibilities under state and federal environmental laws. As a result of his advocacy in advising corporations on compliance, Dan's clients lead their respective industries in environmental stewardship efforts under a number of rules and regulations including the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Dan assists corporate entities, governmental agencies, and the public by ensuring that companies that have contaminated the environment and violated regulations take responsibility for their actions. Through contribution and cost recovery actions, common law claims, citizen suits, enforcement actions, and proper due diligence and contract negotiation, he ensures polluters and bad actors remediate the harm they have caused.
Dan is part of the DiCello Levitt team working with several states in investigating and addressing poly- and perfluoroalkyl substance ("PFAS") contamination. DiCello Levitt's PFAS team, along with other Special Assistant Attorneys General and the Illinois Attorney General, most recently filed a lawsuit against 3M for PFAS contamination from its facility in Cordova, IL. Cases involving these "forever chemicals" will have wide-reaching implications for state governments and their residents.
Dan also works with communities that have been impacted by years of exposure to polluted air, water, and soil. Recently, Dan and DiCello Levitt's environmental team joined with co-counsel in representing several residents and former residents of Union, Illinois in filing suit against companies responsible for polluting the groundwater with carcinogenic chlorinated solvents. Dan also serves as interim co-lead counsel in a class action on behalf of the residents of Rockton, Illinois and surrounding communities for property damages they sustained following a catastrophic fire at a local chemical factory.
In addition to his environmental work, Dan frequently counsels clients on developing and maintaining state-of-the-art safety and health programs that ensure all employees enjoy safe and healthful workplaces. He works closely with both his clients and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") to enhance employee safety and health well beyond OSHA's minimum requirements.
Dan is a litigator who leverages his in-depth knowledge of numerous regulated industries to advocate for individuals, small businesses, and public clients harmed by powerful corporate defendants.
Dan is a litigator who leverages his in-depth knowledge of numerous regulated industries to advocate for individuals, small businesses, and public clients harmed by powerful corporate defendants.
Dan Schwartz works for individuals, small businesses, and public clients in complex multidistrict, commercial, public client, and class action litigations and arbitrations. An experienced litigator with deep knowledge of a wide range of matters, Dan has successfully represented clients in high stakes disputes involving, among other things, affirmative and defensive antitrust claims, fraud, the False Claims Act, consumer privacy, FLSA class and collective actions, trade secret misappropriation, the Anti-Kickback Statute, defamation, securities fraud, toxic tort, bankruptcy, the Affordable Care Act, and patent matters.
Dan has also represented clients on appeal in a number of significant cases in state and federal courts, including arguing a First Amendment matter of first impression in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He previously worked for several major international law firms and clerked for the Honorable Carlos T. Bea of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Dan graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Prior to his legal career, Dan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College and earned a Master of Arts from Brandeis University. He is a proficient Russian speaker.
Practice Areas
Antitrust and Competition Litigation
David Burnett is a partner in DiCello Levitt's Washington, D.C., office. His practice includes commercial litigation, product liability mass torts, securities class actions, and environmental cases.
For sixteen years, David has represented plaintiffs of all kinds-Fortune 100 companies, U.S. states and counties, classes of shareholders, and individuals-against Wall Street banks, pharmaceutical companies, and technology companies in cases alleging fraud, negligence, breach of contract, securities fraud, public nuisance, and other corporate wrongdoing.
During a decade at one of the world's largest business litigation law firms, David represented Allstate, Prudential, and other insurance companies in litigation against Wall Street banks arising from the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The cases alleged fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. As part of a small team, he helped recover hundreds of millions of dollars in dozens of favorable settlements for investors.
David recently represented U.S. states, counties, and cities in litigation arising from the nationwide opioid crisis, taking and defending dozens of depositions of experts and government employees and working closely with epidemiologists and economists to quantify the cost of social services programs to abate the epidemic. He also has represented investors in complex securities fraud class actions against Amazon, AbbVie, Alexion, Qualcomm, and the NYSE, Nasdaq, and BATS stock exchanges. He has worked with victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks to tell their stories of being injured at Ground Zero, helping them obtain tens of millions of dollars in monetary judgments through a victims' compensation fund.
David also previously worked as a vice president of underwriting at a leading litigation finance firm, where he evaluated the legal and economic merits of potential investments in lawsuits and monitored active litigation investments.
Outside of work, David volunteers as the president of the Abenaki Tower and Trail Association, a century-old conservation organization in New Hampshire. He has served on the Board of Advisors of the Appalachian Mountain Club, the nation's oldest conservation nonprofit, since 2014. Before law school, David worked with at-risk youths for Outward Bound, worked in a hut on the Appalachian Trail, interned at the Wilderness Society, and bicycled across the country for charity. He was born in the Philippines, the son of a Navy lawyer. David lives in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Taylor.
Practice Areas
Class Action Litigation
Eli represents people and public entities who have suffered physical, mental, or financial harm due to corporations' negligent and reckless actions.
Eli represents people and public entities who have suffered physical, mental, or financial harm due to corporations' negligent and reckless actions.
Eli Hare is a trial attorney focusing on mass torts, civil and human rights violation cases, personal injury, environmental contamination, and employment discrimination disputes. He represents people and public entities victimized by companies that cause harm by manufacturing and selling defective products, chemicals, and medical devices. People who have had their constitutional rights trampled on by governmental institutions and those who have suffered discrimination in the workplace because of their race, gender, or sexuality also rely on Eli to provide effective, hands-on legal counsel.
Deeply involved in every stage of litigation, Eli's experience includes briefing and arguing motions, leading complex discovery, overseeing expert work, and managing the review of millions of documents produced in discovery. Eli is involved in litigation in state and federal courts across the United States, as well as before administrative bodies and in alternative dispute resolution forums.
Eli was recently appointed to the Leadership Development Committee In re: Hair Relaxer Marketing Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation.
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Eli worked with a prominent, national plaintiff's-side law firm, where he represented people injured by wrongful conduct, environmental contamination, and civil rights abuses. He also worked at a large defense firm, where he represented businesses, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations through all stages of litigation. Prior to beginning his legal practice, Eli served as a judicial extern to a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Practice Areas
Agriculture and Biotechnology
Paige is a trial lawyer. She advocates for individuals and families victimized by implicit and explicitly discriminatory systems, police brutality, and predatory corporations.
Paige is a trial lawyer. She advocates for individuals and families victimized by implicit and explicitly discriminatory systems, police brutality, and predatory corporations.
Paige White's practice currently focuses on civil rights, police brutality, and wrongful death cases. Paige began her career in public service, working as a public defender at the Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem in New York City where she handled hundreds of charges from felony narcotics to violent crimes. She later joined the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, defending adults and juveniles on serious felony cases including violent sexual assault and homicide. While working for the Public Defender, she successfully argued a series of writs of habeas corpus over the conditions at the D.C. Central Detention Facility, which subsequently lead to a number of individuals being released.
Paige was named the "2022 Young Lawyer of the Year" by The Bar Association of the District of Columbia. She is the current President of the Young Lawyer's Division of The Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, Trial Lawyers for the District of Columbia, and the National Bar Association. She earned her J.D. from the University of Florida's Frederic C. Levin College of Law, where she was the only woman that year to be included in the UF Trial team's "Final Four." During law school, she interned for Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, for whom she created a national campaign to support the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. Paige holds a Bachelor's degree from Temple University in political science and sociology with a Spanish minor.
Paige is also honored to serve as Of Counsel to attorney Ben Crump and his law firm Ben Crump Law PLLC.
Practice Areas
Civil and Human Rights Litigation
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate at Di
Elton is a dedicated advocate for individuals seeking justice from the wrongdoings of others.
Elton is a dedicated advocate for individuals seeking justice from the wrongdoings of others.
Elton Darby is an associate at DiCello Levitt's Birmingham, Alabama office. He believes authenticity, empathy, and understanding are critical to building trust and effectively advocating for his clients. With focus on mass tort, personal injury, and civil and human rights litigation, Elton puts his passion and experience to work for individuals who have suffered injury and injustice at the hands of others.
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Elton represented individuals, small companies, small financial institutions, and large corporations in business-related disputes, including general liability, workers' compensation, premises liability, and bankruptcy. He chose his current direction in representing individual clients because he wants to make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable, rather than defending those with the most power.
Elton received his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. During law school, he worked in the Civil Law Clinic helping students and local residents in West Alabama address legal issues that local law firms would not pursue. He also served as senior editor of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review.
Practice Areas
Civil and Human Rights Litigation
Frank Amanat is a highly decorated litigator with more than 30 years' experience in a broad range of complex legal matters. Frank specializes in representing whistleblowers, as well as victims of fraudulent and illegal conduct, governmental entities, and other plaintiffs, in a wide range of high-impact litigation, including class actions and multidistrict litigation. His practice focuses on financial and securities fraud, health care and pharmaceutical fraud, antitrust, civil rights, mass torts, and complex commercial litigation. He also has expertise in constitutional and administrative law, environmental litigation, litigation against governmental actors, and appellate and policy litigation. A veteran of 19 trials and arbitrations and dozens of appeals, Frank has led some of the largest and most consequential civil litigation in the United States, and he has amassed a remarkable track record delivering successful outcomes to his clients.
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Frank spent 24 years at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), including more than two decades as an Assistant United States Attorney and then Senior Counsel at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), plus stints at the Office of Legal Policy (OLP) and the Office of Immigration Litigation. At DOJ, Frank handled over 400 cases, both affirmative and defensive, on behalf of more than 70 federal agencies. From 2013 to 2018, he served as lead counsel for the Government in the successful investigation and prosecution of Barclays Bank and two of its former executives for fraud in connection with the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities. The $2 billion settlement remains the largest single recovery the DOJ has ever obtained in a civil penalty action filed under FIRREA.
For his work at OLP developing regulations implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act, Frank was awarded in 2012 the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service, the second highest award conferred by the DOJ. In September 2020, Frank received the EOUSA Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney (Civil) for his work on financial fraud and public policy cases, as well as several immigration policy class actions. In 2018, Frank received the Henry L. Stimson Medal, an award given annually by the New York City Bar Association to honor outstanding Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the EDNY and SDNY for their integrity, fairness, courage, and superior commitment to the public good.
Practice Areas
Civil and Human Rights Litigation
Greg's swift, global evaluation of the legal and factual landscape drives creative solutions and extraordinary results.
Greg's swift, global evaluation of the legal and factual landscape drives creative solutions and extraordinary results.
Greg Gutzler is an experienced trial lawyer with a track record of billions in recoveries in high-stakes cases. Before joining DiCello Levitt, Greg litigated extensively on both the plaintiff and defense side, including working at his own boutique firm, one of the nation's most prestigious plaintiffs' firms, and as a partner of an Am Law 100 defense firm. He is a trusted advocate chosen by clients when they need candid, creative, and aggressive approaches to business solutions and decisive litigation strategy. Greg believes that the law is more than a means to pursue justice-it is the foundation of a society in which people are free to create, thrive, and feel protected. Beliefs become action through creativity, technical excellence, knowledge, and discipline.
Greg is a go-to advocate for any type of complex commercial litigation, business disputes, whistleblower cases, and sexual abuse cases. Clients seek out Greg for his expertise in contract, ownership, and valuation disputes. Whistleblowers also rely on Greg's experience and creativity in prosecuting SEC, False Claims Act, FIRREA, IRS, and FCPA matters. Greg's practice areas focus on ensuring that innovation thrives and creates competitive marketplaces. One of his clients, a major biotechnology company, spent billions of dollars to create a groundbreaking technology. When a competitor improperly exploited his client's intellectual property, Greg led his client's suit against the competitor, tried the case in federal court, and won a jury verdict of $1 billion in damages. This was the fourth-largest patent infringement jury verdict in U.S. history-and hammered home the point that competition, no matter how intense, must always remain fair and honorable.
Greg has litigated more than a dozen high-profile securities actions against international investment banks for misrepresentations they made to investors in connection with residential mortgage-backed securities, recovering more than $4.5 billion. When important investments and resources are at stake, hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capitalists, individuals, companies, and governmental entities turn to Greg because he is a fearless advocate in complex lawsuits in federal and state court and arbitration.
Greg is also on the front lines in protecting women and men from sexual abuse, discrimination, and exploitation. He is lead counsel in a civil suit involving the world's largest-ever sex trafficking case, which spans six countries and fifty years of abuse. On December 10, 2021, Dateline NBC featured Greg in its revered news magazine program in an episode titled, "The Secrets of Nygard Cay."
Greg's grasp of the nuances of common law-the influence of jurisdictions, who's on the bench, and more-converge in a simple insight: The system never dispenses justice based on predicable formulas, so legal professionals must fight to achieve justice. He views DiCello Levitt as the right firm to advance that fight for its clients, drawing on a shared vision of commitment, creativity, and loyalty.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Senior Associate in Di
Hani helps investors recover financial assets lost to fraud, drawing on years of experience advising several of the world's largest institutional investors in securities fraud class and opt-out options.
Hani helps investors recover financial assets lost to fraud, drawing on years of experience advising several of the world's largest institutional investors in securities fraud class and opt-out options.
Hani Farah is a senior associate in DiCello Levitt's San Diego office and a part of the Securities and Financial Services Litigation practice. Hani advises investors who have suffered losses due to fraud in the securities markets and has nearly 10 years of experience litigating securities fraud class action cases. He also advises and represents institutional investors with respect to individual securities actions, providing investors with options for recovery of their investment losses outside of class actions.
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Hani practiced at two leading national securities litigation law firms and collaborated with and learned from some of the best securities fraud class action lawyers in the country. He has served on litigation teams that successfully prosecuted securities fraud class actions against corporations in the insurance, health care, and veterinary industries, securing tens of millions of dollars in settlements. He also played a critical role in the representation of institutional investors in numerous securities opt-out cases, including actions against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, American Realty Capital Properties, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Symantec Corporation, among others. Additionally, Hani has significant experience advising investors on international securities matters, including shareholder actions in Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia.
Hani graduated cum laude from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied political science and history, before earning his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2015, also graduating cum laude.
Practice Areas
Securities and Financial Services Litigation
Education
University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., cum laude
University of California, San Diego, B.A., cum laude
Henry helps defrauded investors achieve financial justice.
Henry helps defrauded investors achieve financial justice.
Henry Rosen is a results-driven litigator with over three decades of experience recovering money on behalf of institutional and individual investors. A leading attorney in securities fraud class actions, he has obtained more than $1 billion for investors.
Henry has significant experience running all aspects of large, complex litigation. From ensuring his institutional and individual investor clients are prepared for depositions and court, to overseeing massive document reviews, to handling hundreds of depositions, to preparing pleadings and for oral argument before the court, Henry is a hands-on and meticulous attorney.
Some of Henry's notable representations in large complex securities fraud class actions include:
In re Cardinal Health, Inc. Sec. Litig.: This $600 million settlement is the largest recovery ever in a securities fraud class action in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Jones v. Pfizer Inc.: A $400 million settlement was reached on the eve of trial for investors in this misclassification of revenue case.
In re FirstEnergy: Recovered $89.5 million for investors in a securities fraud class action after this Ohio utility company artificially inflated its stock price through false statements and omissions.
Henry is the lead litigator responsible for the ongoing 2016 Brazilian arbitration against Petrobras before the Bovespa panel in São Paulo, Brazil; a case brought by 24 institutional investors including the largest sovereign wealth funds globally and public pension funds across the United States.
He is a founding member of DiCello Levitt's Securities and Financial Services Litigation practice in San Diego. Henry earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and his bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego after studying for a time at the American College in Paris, France.
Practice Areas
Securities and Financial Services Litigation
Gordon collaborates across firm practices to facilitate optimal collection, management, and review of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) so that it can be leveraged to win high-stakes litigation.
Gordon collaborates across firm practices to facilitate optimal collection, management, and review of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) so that it can be leveraged to win high-stakes litigation.
Gordon Bergstresser's passion for ESI flows from his recognition that every case litigated by the firm, from the largest data breach class action to an individual tort victim, is brought because someone was harmed by another's wrongful conduct. Gordon experience includes in-depth collection and review of ESI in a number of industries, including data privacy, internet tracking, mobile devices, cryptocurrency, securities exchange platforms, automotive, pharmaceutical, security contractors, and food labeling. This wide range of hands-on experience gives him a wealth of knowledge to draw upon when new cases with pressing ESI issues come through the door.
Gordon's approach builds advantages into the ESI workflow at the outset of a case. When the time comes for the litigation team to marshal the ESI needed to achieve the best outcome for a client, Gordon has already created the infrastructure so that important evidence can be quickly located and presented.
Gordon's background includes working in review rooms to produce ESI for civil defendants, giving him unique insight in his current work receiving document productions on behalf of plaintiffs. Crafting search terms and leveraging predictive coding is central to Gordon's strategy for finding the smallest of needles in the largest of haystacks. He has experience in all of the major review platforms, including Relativity and Everlaw, ensuring that every case, whether ESI is managed directly by DiCello Levitt or with partner firms, can be brought to successful resolution for our clients.
Practice Areas
Agriculture and Biotechnology
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate in Di
James Ulwick is an associate in DiCello Levitt's Chicago office with experience litigating complex data breach cases, data privacy violations, complex commercial suits, and actions involving serious injuries. He represents classes of individuals, businesses, and public entities in a wide range of disputes, protecting their interests in an ever-growing, national practice. As a core member of the firm's award-winning Privacy, Technology, and Cybersecurity Practice Group, James' practice is on the cutting edge of emerging technologies.
Prior to joining the firm, James was an insurance defense attorney, representing individuals, corporations, and local municipalities through all stages of litigation. Since joining DiCello Levitt, he has worked with consumers to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for data privacy violations, defective products, and data breaches. James has used his experience on the defense side to help negotiate meaningful, forward-looking injunctive relief, to ensure that corporations are held both financially accountable for past wrongs, and made responsible for preventing future wrongdoing.
Highlighted by BestLawyers.com as "One to Watch," James is putting his extensive litigation experience in federal and state courts across the country to work in protecting consumers and those injured by corporate malfeasance. Outside of the office, James has focused on assisting in the development of the next generation of trial and appellate litigators by coaching the Loyola University Chicago National Health Law Moot Court Team.
Practice Areas
Antitrust and Competition Litigation
Jamie has been centrally involved in the prosecution of some of the largest, most complex and successful class action cases ever. These include in re Enron Corp. Securities Litigation, in re Dynegy Inc. Securities Litigation, and in re Global Crossing ERISA Litigation. He has also handled complex non-class/derivative cases for both plaintiffs and defendants, including a number of complex matters in the wake of the financial crisis. Some of these cases involved esoteric structures such as collateralized debt obligations, residential mortgage-backed securities, and structured investment vehicles.
Jamie has taken cases to trial in courtrooms across the U.S. on issues including, among others, federal securities claims; corporate control, governance and finance; fiduciary duty; banking; oil and gas; partnerships; real property; and electronic commerce.
Jamie and his wife Liz live in Austin and Santa Fe. They enjoy traveling, art, food and wine, time with friends, and having fun generally. They are both deeply committed to civil and human rights activities; Jamie is involved in ADL's Global Leadership Council and Liz is a national director of Human Rights Campaign.
Practice Areas
Antitrust and Competition Litigation
Jessica Holmes is a deeply committed advocate for the preservation of our natural resources who draws on her background as an environmental engineer to fight for her clients and create a safer and healthier world for all. She believes that enduring environmental protection is accomplished by focusing, at every stage of the litigation process, on the people and the communities harmed by environmental contamination. As a DiCello Levitt attorney, Jessie uses her analytical skills and technical knowledge of biosystems to understand and communicate the engineering dynamics at play in her cases.
While at Lewis & Clark Law School, Jessie focused her research on the ways that class actions and other aggregation devices enable access to the courts, achieving justice for those previously left without recourse, and effect major changes in our environmental protection efforts. After serving as a law clerk at the Natural Resources Law Section of the California Office of the Attorney General, she was elected editor of Environmental Law Review: Ninth Circuit Review, where she also published an article on the intersection of complex litigation and environmental law; served as president of the Public Interest Law Project, an organization aimed at empowering students to pursue opportunities in public interest law; and co-founded the Complex Litigation Symposium at Lewis & Clark, sponsored by DiCello Levitt, which explored the significance of class actions and MDLs in ensuring equal access to justice. Shortly after graduating from law school, she received a scholarship to attend the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School's Advanced MDL Certificate Program and was recently selected to join the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources' Membership Diversity Enhancement Program.
Joe helps clients right injustices from civil and human rights violations and discrimination, while working to deter future governmental and corporate misconduct.
Joe helps clients right injustices from civil and human rights violations and discrimination, while working to deter future governmental and corporate misconduct.
John has distinguished himself in academia and the national legal community as an expert litigator and writer in complex antitrust cases and consumer class actions.
John has distinguished himself in academia and the national legal community as an expert litigator and writer in complex antitrust cases and consumer class actions.
John Tangren has exclusively represented plaintiffs for the past decade in multistate automotive defect class actions. In addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars he's recovered for his clients, he also obtained nearly half a million dollars in sanctions for discovery misconduct in a class action involving unintended acceleration in Ford vehicles. Most recently, John was a member of a trial team and led plaintiffs' presentation on damages in a multi-state class action involving oil consumption of trucks and sports-utility vehicles, in which the jury awarded the class $102.6 million. The verdict-a rarity in class action litigation-is one of the highest-ever achieved for an automotive defect class action, setting the bar for litigating similar cases across the country. In another case, involving ignition switch defects, John served as Settlement Allocation Counsel in a blockbuster $121.1 million settlement against General Motors.
John's professional accomplishments are among the most impressive in the country. He has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in product defect cases, including $600 million for property damage caused by an herbicide, $135 million for defective heavy truck engines, and $45 million and $40 million in cases involving defective SUV parts, all while setting himself apart as an expert legal writer and tactician.
John's expertise in legal writing is recognized in the community; John frequently presents to other lawyers on how to best communicate their message, present advocacy in compelling ways, and use tools and technology to streamline the process. He also presents on other topics-ranging from communications with absent class members at an annual antitrust conference, to issues related to Article III standing in the federal court system. Some of his other presentations have included a lecture to members of the Chicago Bar Association concerning the Class Action Fairness Act and its impact on litigation since its passage, the use of discovery tools and techniques for electronically-stored information, and how to avoid legal ethics violations and liability for malpractice by following established protocols and procedures.
John has been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer, in the National Trial Lawyers "Top 40 Under 40," and as an Emerging Lawyer by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company.
Practice Areas
Agriculture and Biotechnology
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate in Di
Jonathan brings years of antitrust and class action experience to help consumers and small businesses suffering from anticompetitive and monopolistic actions.
Jonathan brings years of antitrust and class action experience to help consumers and small businesses suffering from anticompetitive and monopolistic actions.
Jonathan Crevier is an associate in DiCello Levitt's New York office. Jonathan prosecutes complex antitrust class actions on behalf of institutional investors, businesses, and consumers. He actively litigates cases against a number of the world's largest companies in antitrust matters involving alleged price-fixing, benchmark and commodities manipulation, pay-for-delay, and other anticompetitive practices.
Prior to joining the firm, Jonathan was an associate in a nationally-recognized competition and antitrust litigation group, where he represented plaintiffs in complex antitrust matters. He also previously served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Henry Pitman, U.S.M.J., in the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Practice Areas
Antitrust and Competition Litigation
Education
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., cum laude
New York University, B.A., magna cum laude
Job Titles:
- Editor - in - Chief of the Cleveland State Law Review
Bobby has earned multimillion dollar verdicts for victims of civil rights abuses, catastrophic injuries, and defective products.
Bobby has earned multimillion dollar verdicts for victims of civil rights abuses, catastrophic injuries, and defective products.
WASHINGTON-DiCello Levitt continues its rapid growth trajectory by adding attorney talent in five of its six offices. Li Yu joined the New York office as a Partner to reinforce the firm's