Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Former federal prosecutor Matthew Yelovich focuses on government internal investigations. Yelovich is part of the team
representing Amazon in a class action in the first-ever use of the Washington state Consumer Protection Act alleging price gouging of
every product bought on Amazon.com since the beginning of COVID-19. The case
has
trillions of dollars in damages
at risk.
Los Angeles partner Matthew Craig
possesses a broad range of trial and appellate experience. He recently acted as co-lead counsel
representing Uber in a challenge to a New York City ordinance requiring food delivery platforms like Uber Eats to make sensitive, personally identifying customer information available to restaurants and other merchants without data security or privacy protection. The District Court ruled in favor of the client’s motion for summary judgment in a September 2024 ruling.
Commercial litigator
Brittani Jackson was lead counsel on behalf of an American healthcare provider in February 2025 when she successfully secured on summary judgment the final dismissal of the lead plaintiff’s case in the $200 million wrongful death and negligence litigation related to the travel nurse who allegedly caused a fatal crash in 2022 that drew widespread headlines.
Jackson is also active in commercial contract disputes, mass tort litigation, and other corporate governance disputes, among others.
Christine Woodin focuses on commercial and intellectual property litigation and is on the lead trial counsel team for AbbVie, a defendant in the multi-billion-dollar Allergan Textured Breast Implant Litigation, which involves approximately 1,700 individual lawsuits and a nationwide class action pending in four venues.
Joe Reiter is a high-profile litigator who recently scored a complete victory for the country’s largest integrated healthcare system in a multi-part arbitration with the largest hospital chain in California.
Rajan Trehan is experienced in litigating a range of disputes from class actions to contract and fraud disputes. Trehan is co-lead counsel advising the Koi Nation on all issues related to their proposed casino, which has received challenges from other tribes in a matter of great cultural and financial significance.
Sourabh Mishra is a routine member of the firm’s high-profile trial teams, including in a March 2025 complete defense verdict
when a federal jury awarded
the client,
Disney, in a high-profile suit brought by an animator who alleged Disney infringed his copyrights to develop the blockbuster film, “Moana.”
Christopher Young is a trusted practitioner on antitrust and class action litigation matters. He serves as co-lead counsel representing professional mixed martial arts fighters in an antitrust class action suit alleging UFC unlawfully obtained monopoly power by acquiring its largest rivals and locking the best MMA fighters into long-term exclusive contracts.
In early 2025, after nearly ten years of litigation, the Court granted final approval to a $375 million settlement: an average of approximately $250,000 per
fighter.
Appointed partner in 2024,
David Seidel is known for representing clients in consumer protection class action and antitrust cases, including recently representing a class of competitive cheer families who allege defendants have abused their market power to raise, fix, and stabilize the prices charged and associated with competitive cheer.
In March 2024, the parties agreed to an $82.5 million settlement and in June, the Court granted preliminary approval.
Los Angeles Partner Susan Gutierrez
leads
Proskauer’s Mass Tort & Product Liability Group. Routinely active in
high stakes matters, Gutierrez
is a member of the lead
counsel team
representing
Wells Fargo in a putative class action alleging race discrimination in the bank’s mortgage underwriting practices. Specifically, the complaint asserts that a 2022 Bloomberg article, along with data
disclosed under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, show that Wells Fargo rejects a disproportionate number of minority homeowners’ mortgage applications.
The matter is ongoing.
Sanford Heisler Sharp
Qiaojing Ella Zheng of Sanford Heisler Sharp serves as managing partner of the firm’s Palo Alto and San Francisco offices. Zheng is also chair of the firm’s Asian American Litigation and Finance Practice Group.
She was lead counsel to a class of over 1,400 delivery drivers in an action before the California Superior Court
against
Weee!, North America’s largest supplier of Asian and Hispanic grocery products. The complaint alleged that Weee! has engaged in numerous violations of the California Labor Code, including making unlawful deductions from drivers’ tips, failing to provide drivers with adequate meal periods and to pay for work performed during unpaid meal breaks, misclassifying hundreds of drivers as independent contractors, and ignoring numerous laws and regulations designed to protect employees’ health and safety in the workplace. The parties reached a settlement in 2024.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Winston Hsiao focuses on civil litigation, including in lead counsel roles where he represented a myriad of clients in securities and shareholder
litigation. Most recently, Hsiao
represented Myriad Genetics Inc. and certain current and former board members and executives in derivative litigations arising out of public statements Myriad made
regarding its flagship pharmacogenetic test GeneSight.
Updated Aug 2025
