Preparing For, Taking, and Defending Depositions of Class Representatives

Mr. Biderman focuses his practice on mass tort litigation and consumer class actions. He represents packaged food companies, coffee companies, dairy companies, footwear companies and others whose nutritional or health claims have been challenged. Mr. Biderman also has represented search engines and other online companies. For 15 years, he managed the firm’s full-service product liability team responsible for defending over 1,000 toxic tort cases pending in Los Angeles and Northern California state courts. Mr. Biderman speaks and writes regularly on class action issues.

Mr. Davidson’s practice focuses on complex consumer class actions, including cases involving deceptive and unfair trade practices, privacy and data breach issues, and antitrust violations.  He served as class counsel in In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, No. 3:15-cv-03747-JD (N.D. Cal.).  Stuart has been named a Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500, a Leading Lawyer in America, a Leading Litigator in America, a Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer, and a Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyer by Lawdragon, one of “Florida’s Most Effective Lawyers” by American Law Media’s Daily Business Review, and a member of The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100-Civil Plaintiffs.  He is a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 11 Brainstorming Group, focusing on the California Consumer Protection Act. Stuart currently serves on the 2023 Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory Board for Law360.

Mr. Halfon is an associate in Lieff Cabraser’s New York office, where he represents victims of corporate greed, negligence, and other misconduct. He litigates on behalf of groups injured through deceptive overcharge schemes, harmful products, sexual abuse, discrimination, and more. His cases with Lieff Cabraser have successfully subjected national banks to state consumer protection laws, defeated major telecoms’ attempts to force arbitration and immunize themselves from customer accountability, and won more than $300 million for class members. He was also part of a litigation team that convinced a Texas federal court to rule that the state’s pandemic voting policies discriminated against Black and Latino/a voters. Avery seeks to not only secure compensation for victims, but also lead corporations and other institutions to reform their cultures and set up internal accountability systems to prevent the harm from happening again.