Press Archive

Jordan Elias— November 28, 2018

Many of the largest and most significant class actions wind up in a multidistrict litigation. What’s an “MDL” and how is it different from a regular court proceeding?

The MDL Statute

A federal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1407, governs ...

Trevor Tan — November 15, 2018

Class action attorneys often seek to represent many thousand potential class members. Identifying them can sometimes pose a challenge. In some cases, class members can only be identified based on the defendant’s records. 

But what if ...

Elizabeth A. Kramer— November 9, 2018

On October 31 the Supreme Court heard argument in a “cy pres only” settlement case. Based on the argument, the original cy pres question that was presented in Frank v. Gaos may be eclipsed by questions about whether the class ...

Simon S. Grille— November 8, 2018

A hidden arbitration provision can’t help Viacom defend claims that it illegally collected the personal information of kids who played its “Llama Spit Spit” cell phone game, a federal judge ruled last month.  

The ...

Jordan Elias— October 25, 2018

For forty years, consumers haven’t been able to bring antitrust claims under the Sherman Act. Depending on how the Supreme Court decides a case this term, that may be about to change.

Illinois Brick

In its 1977 Illinois Brick decision ...

Angelica Ornelas— October 23, 2018

Class actions are an effective way to hold banks, corporations, and others accountable for unlawful practices, defective products, and other wrongdoing. (For more details about how a class action works, please see our ...

Simon S. Grille— October 22, 2018

In a win for consumers, the California Court of Appeal has revived a class action lawsuit about “One A Day” vitamins that are actually “two a day” vitamins. It turns out that “nano-type print” on the back of the jar says ...

Elizabeth A. Kramer— October 19, 2018

The term cy pres is from the French phrase “cy pres comme possible,” which means “as near as possible.”  In the class action context, it refers to distributing settlement funds to third-party organizations when those ...

Jordan Elias— October 15, 2018

When many people think of class actions, they think of a postcard describing a settlement in tiny print and often offering little in the way of a payment. At Girard Sharp we believe class actions can be a vital tool to get money back to ...

Simon S. Grille— October 11, 2018

Girard Sharp has filed a consolidated complaint against Apple alleging that Apple manufactured and sold MacBook laptops that have defective “butterfly” keyboards.  The complaint asserts that minimal amounts of dust or debris ...

Together, Daniel Girard and Eric Gibbs built Girard Gibbs’s national reputation for innovation and excellence in complex litigation. Over 20 years, the firm’s lawyers earned the trust of clients and courts and helped shaped the law in a variety of practice areas ...

Hosted by the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and the Electronic Discovery Institute (EDI), Dena Sharp served as a co-chair and faculty member for the Fourth Annual Judicial Training Symposium for Federal Judges. The event, taking place on November 14, 2018, brought ...

A California federal court appointed Girard Sharp lawyers to lead a consumer class action alleging that Apple sold defective MacBook laptops. The Court’s order gives the firm and its co-counsel “sole authority over all matters concerning the prosecution of ...

A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York has denied a motion to dismiss complaints filed on behalf of purchasers of a prescription dry eye treatment called Restasis. The complaints allege that the pharmaceutical giant Allergan, maker of Restasis, has ...

Girard Sharp and its co-lead counsel have delivered settlements of more than $104 million for end purchasers of a prescription pain patch called Lidoderm. A California federal judge on September 12, 2018 approved the “excellent” settlement ending claims that ...

The National Law Journal has named Girard Sharp as a 2018 Elite Trial Lawyers finalist in the areas of Financial Products and Privacy/Data Breach. The NLJ’s editors and researchers published the finalists on July 26, 2018, and the honorees were selected from among ...

On July 10, 2018, Northern California Super Lawyers released its annual listing of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars, which honors “outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 1, 2018 – Victims of the storage tank disaster at Pacific Fertility Center have filed an amended complaint in their class action lawsuit, which provides new information and developments related to the March 2018 tank failure incident.  ...

Three class action lawsuits focused on the mishandling of thousands of embryos and eggs at Pacific Fertility Center have now been combined in the U.S. District Court for Northern California. The federal judge overseeing the case appointed Peiffer Wolf Carr & Kane ...

Thousands of Eggs and Embryos Were Put at Grave Risk by the Unprecedented Storage Tank Malfunction

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–San Francisco-based law firm Girard Gibbs LLP along with the law firm of Sauder Schelkopf LLC have filed a class action lawsuit in San ...

The American Law Institute announced on October 19, 2017, that Jordan Elias, a Girard Sharp partner, has been elected as a new member of the Institute.

ALI members are prominent judges, lawyers, and law professors who are confidentially nominated by their ...

In December 2016, Yahoo announced a massive data breach, affecting 1 billion user accounts. But, it turns out, the breach was much larger than Yahoo admitted.

On October 3, 2017, Yahoo’s new owner, Verizon, announced that the 2013 Yahoo breach was three times larger ...

Hosted by the Electronic Discovery Institute (EDI) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), Daniel Girard joins the faculty for the Second Annual Judicial Training Symposium for Federal Judges. The 2-day event held October 10, 2016 in Fort Lauderdale, FL brings ...

Girard Sharp LLP is pleased to announce that founding partner Daniel Girard was recently selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017 in the fields of Mass Tort Litigation and Class Action for Plaintiffs. Daniel Girard was also selected for inclusion ...

Daniel Girard will join the faculty of a Federal Judicial Center National Workshop for District Judges on July 25-26, 2016 in San Diego, California.

Daniel Girard has been recognized by his peers and the federal judiciary as an expert on class action and complex ...

On July 8, 2016, Northern California Super Lawyers released its annual listing of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars, which honors “outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional ...

On June 27, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would not review a ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in litigation involving the timely payment of tax refunds to Guam residents. The Supreme Court’s ruling, which officially denied the Government ...

California Lawyer recently honored Jordan Elias with a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) award.

The CLAY awards are given each year to attorneys who have influenced law and society through groundbreaking work. Jordan was recognized for his role in In re ...

U.C. Davis School of Law has named alumnus and Girard Sharp LLP founding partner Daniel Girard as the March 2016 Alumni of the Month.

In an interview for the law school’s website, Mr. Girard credits a King Hall professor and advisor as a driving force in his decision to ...

Daniel Girard has been appointed by a Washington D.C. federal court judge to serve as lead counsel in consolidated national litigation against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”), OPM’s Director, OPM’s Chief Information Officer, and KeyPoint ...

Girard Sharp and co-counsel have helped deliver settlements worth more than $75 million on behalf of former customers of Peregrine Financial Group, Inc., in litigation against U.S. Bank, N.A., and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., arising from Peregrine’s collapse in ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Girard Gibbs LLP is pleased to announce that founding partner Daniel Girard has recently been named in The Best Lawyers in America 2016 in the fields of Mass Tort Litigation and Class Action for Plaintiffs. The 2016 edition marks the fifth ...

A unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling Wednesday, August 26, affirming the district court’s summary judgment and permanent injunction in favor of class action plaintiffs and a class of Guamanian taxpayers against the government of ...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 12, 2015 — On February 9, 2015, Girard Sharp filed a federal class action lawsuit against health insurer Anthem on behalf of Anthem members and employees whose personal information was exposed as a result of the data breach announced in ...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, 2015 — The law firm of Girard Sharp and co-counsel The Law Offices of Ignacio Cruz Aguigui have filed a class action complaint on behalf of Benny Crawford, a native citizen of Guam, and other ancestral landowners of the property now used ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The law firm of Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that thirteen of the firm’s attorneys have been selected for inclusion in Northern California Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars for 2014.

According to its website, “Super Lawyers is a rating ...

Girard Sharp has been appointed co-lead counsel in the pending class action lawsuit related to Lidoderms’ unfair marketing and pricing of its lidocaine patch. On May 23, 2014, the Honorable William H. Orrick of the United Stated District Court of the Northern ...

Daniel C. Girard has been appointed to the Consumer Cases Steering Committee in the pending class action lawsuit on behalf of customers concerning the Target Corporation customer data security breach. On May 22, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson ...

Girard Sharp joins the legal team representing 214 former NFL players in connection with settlement proceedings in the National Football League Players Concussion Injury litigation. With co-counsel Philip Thomas and John Giddens of Jackson, Mississippi, Girard ...

On October 23, 2013, Girard Sharp and co-counsel filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of investors in Strategic Realty Trust, Inc. (“the Company”) for breaches of fiduciary duties owed to the Company’s common shareholders. The firm was later appointed by the ...