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On January 8, 2021, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner of the Central District of California granted preliminary approval of a $73 million class settlement of a sexual abuse case against UCLA and its oncology OB/GYN Dr. James Heaps. The final approval hearing is set ...

On November 2, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven preliminarily approved a settlement of $7.85 million in the 21st Century Oncology Data Breach Litigation.

In October 2015, a breach exposed the personal and health information of 2.2 million oncology patients.

The ...

Girard Sharp, along with co-counsel from Gibbs Law Group and Erickson Kramer Osborne, has reached a $73 million class action settlement with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Dr. James Heaps. Plaintiffs, representing a proposed class of Heaps’s ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that Scott Grzenczyk, Partner at the firm, is a recipient of the prestigious American Antitrust Institute’s “Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer” award. Scott is one of only six attorneys honored ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that the Daily Journal, California’s largest legal newspaper, has honored our firm with the prestigious “Top Boutiques in California” award for 2020. Girard Sharp is one of 16 law firms recognized in California, and the only ...

Partner Adam Polk will be presenting at this year’s ABA National Institute on Class Actions. The event will be held on October 13-15 as a virtual conference.

Adam is slated to moderate a panel entitled “Be Careful What You Wish For: Getting Tagged with Mass ...

On September 23, 2020, Chief U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia of the Western District of Texas granted Plaintiff’s motion for class certification and denied Defendant’s motion to strike. The case alleges that defendant USAA breached Plaintiff’s life ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that Best Lawyers has recognized six of our attorneys for outstanding work in their practice and distinguished reputation among their peers.

Daniel Girard and Dena Sharp are included in the 2021 Best Lawyers in America list, which ...

On August 19, 2020, U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo issued an order preliminarily approving a proposed class action settlement with LG, and authorized the Settlement Administrator, Angeion Group, to begin issuing notice to the class of over one and a half ...

U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee on August 16, 2020 denied T-Mobile’s amended motion to dismiss claims brought against it for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Girard Sharp attorneys are prosecuting the case charging T-Mobile with continuing to ...

On August 13, 2020, U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton denied telecom giant Comcast’s motion to continue a stay pending a Supreme Court decision on the scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Together with co-counsel, Girard Sharp attorneys Daniel ...

Girard Sharp has been appointed to serve as co-lead counsel, along with Hausfeld LLP, in an antitrust class action against energy companies Vitol and SK Energy. The firm represents California gasoline purchasers who allege these defendants conspired to fix and ...

Girard Sharp attorneys Jordan Elias and Trevor Tan today filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit on behalf of Public Justice urging rehearing of the panel decision in Sonner v. Premier Nutrition Corporation, 962 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 2020).

The decision in Sonner would ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that seven of the firm’s attorneys appear on the annual Northern California Super Lawyers list, which honors “outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and ...

On behalf of small business clients, Girard Sharp on May 27 filed the first class action lawsuit against Google for acquiring and maintaining a monopoly in digital advertising markets. The firm filed a first amended complaint on December 4.

Plaintiffs allege that ...

Girard Sharp has filed a class action lawsuit against energy companies Vitol Inc., SK Energy Americas, Inc., and SK Trading Co., Ltd. for conspiring to increase and maintain gasoline prices at supra-competitive levels. Plaintiffs seek to represent all people in ...

As reported in Law360, end-payors of the prescription drug Restasis won class certification in pending antitrust litigation in Brooklyn federal court. The court also appointed Girard Sharp to serve as co-lead class counsel.

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Girard Sharp has filed a class action lawsuit charging British Airways with unlawfully denying refunds to customers whose flights were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Access a copy of the complaint here.

Adam Polk has been appointed to serve as Co-Lead Counsel in a class action lawsuit against Subaru for an alleged battery drain defect in certain Subaru vehicles.

Access a copy of the leadership order, entered on May 5, 2020 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider.

The ...

Girard Sharp has filed a class action lawsuit following reports that certain Subaru vehicles may have a defective battery system and that Subaru, though aware of this defect, has been unable or unwilling to eliminate it. Access a copy of the filing here.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer today denied Intuit’s attempt to force three consumer plaintiffs to drop their class action claims against Intuit and proceed individually in private arbitration.

Girard Sharp is co-lead counsel for the consumer plaintiffs ...

The American Law Institute on March 10 recognized Girard Sharp partner Jordan Elias for his new book chapter on the Supreme Court’s class action jurisprudence.

The chapter appears in the American Bar Association’s authoritative treatise Survey of Class Action ...

Partner Adam Polk has been appointed to serve on the Executive Committee in the In re: Allergan BIOCELL Textured Breast Implant Products Liability Litigation.

The lawsuit follows a worldwide recall of BIOCELL products following reports that Allergan’s BIOCELL ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that Partner Dan Girard and Associate Elizabeth Kramer have been recognized for their work by The Best Lawyers in America in its 2020 rankings.

Dan and Elizabeth were both recognized by Best Lawyers for Mass Tort Litigation / Class ...

Girard Sharp partner Jordan Elias on February 4, 2020 filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Association for Justice in a pending Eleventh Circuit appeal. The brief addresses the class action doctrine known as ascertainability and is available here.

The National Law Journal and ALM Media honored partner Dena Sharp at the 2020 Elite Trial Lawyer awards gala, which took place at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach on Monday, January 20.

Dena was recognized as an “Elite Woman of the Plaintiffs’ Bar,” one of nine female ...

On January 6, 2020, a federal judge in Los Angeles said that he was inclined to grant final approval of the landmark $215 million class action settlement that recognizes all survivors of former student health center gynecologist George Tyndall, and establishes ...

Dena Sharp has been appointed to serve as Co-Lead Counsel in the JUUL MDL.

The litigation against JUUL alleges in part that the company sold and marketed its nicotine-delivery pods in a manner designed to attract minors, that JUUL’s marketing misrepresents or omits ...

A federal judge has granted final approval of a $7.25 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Google regarding its Pixel smartphones. The plaintiffs alleged that Pixels manufactured before January 4, 2017 have a defect that leads to microphone or speaker ...

A federal judge has granted final approval of a $17.85 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo concerning automated calls and texts. Access a copy of the order here.

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @GirardSharp for settlement ...

After hearing oral argument on Apple’s motion to dismiss, U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila rejected Apple’s second attempt to end a class action brought by individuals who purchased MacBook laptops equipped with a butterfly mechanism keyboard.

Plaintiffs ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a finalist by ALM Media and National Trial Lawyers in several categories of the 2020 Elite Trial Lawyers Awards, and Dena Sharp has been honored as an “Elite Woman of the Plaintiffs’ Bar” for the second ...

A federal judge has granted final approval of a $9.75 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Google concerning its Nexus 6P smartphones.

Dena Sharp has been appointed to the interim leadership team by a federal judge in the JUUL MDL. Follow us on Twitter @GirardSharp for future case-related updates. 

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that it has earned national Tier 1 rankings in Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions ‒ Plaintiffs and has been named to the U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Firms” list for the seventh year in a row.

The firm also earned a regional ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that firm partner Dena Sharp has been selected as one of six new Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council. Lawyer Representatives are responsible for fostering open communications between judges and attorneys ...

Girard Sharp attorneys Dena Sharp and Scott Grzenczyk will be presenting at the 13th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference and Antitrust Enforcement Awards Dinner, a yearly event organized by the American Antitrust Institute (AAI). The event ...

Girard Sharp has filed a class action complaint charging JUUL with unlawfully marketing dangerous e-cigarettes and manipulating nicotine delivery to maximize addiction, causing a public health crisis and harming tens of thousands of minors and adults across the ...

Girard Sharp partner Adam Polk will be presenting at the 23^rd Annual National Institute on Class Actions, a yearly conference organized by the American Bar Association (ABA). The event will take place October 17-18 at the Omni Nashville Hotel.

Adam is slated to ...

On August 29, U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton largely denied LG’s attempt to dismiss a consumer protection lawsuit brought against the company by plaintiffs represented by Girard Sharp.

Plaintiffs allege that LG sold and continues to sell refrigerators ...

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer on August 19 appointed Daniel C. Girard of Girard Sharp to serve as co-lead counsel alongside Norman E. Siegel of Stueve Siegel Hanson in a class action charging that Intuit Inc., maker of TurboTax, deliberately impeded access to ...

Girard Sharp attorney Elizabeth A. Kramer is quoted in this article regarding the firm's recently filed lawsuit against UCLA and Dr. James Heaps. Heaps has been charged with sexual battery and exploitation of patients while working as a UCLA gynecologist.

Bustle magazine has published a moving opinion piece written by USC alumna and Girard Sharp client Shannon O’Conner, one of the thousands of women who allegedly suffered sexual abuse by the former head gynecologist at the USC student health center. Ms ...

Daniel Girard has been appointed to serve as an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies.The Restatement will address tort damages, injunctions against torts, and other remedies. Advisers work closely with the ...

The National Law Journal and ALM Media honored Girard Sharp and firm partner Dena Sharp at the 2019 Elite Trial Lawyer awards gala, which took place at the Lotte New York Palace in New York City earlier this month.

Girard Sharp was the sole winner of an Elite Trial ...

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a $7.25 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Google concerning the first-generation Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones. The plaintiffs allege that Pixels manufactured before January 4, 2017 have a ...

Preliminary approval for the amended settlement in the USC Tyndall class action has been granted, and the claims period is now open. Survivors can make claims or get help and information by visiting the settlement website here. 

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of an $18 million settlement in the Wells Fargo TCPA litigation. Follow us @GirardSharp for updates. 

Daniel Girard talks about his journey from paralegal to leading plaintiff’s advocate in the second part of his Leading Litigators interview with Steven Weisbrot and The Angeion Group.

Firm founder Daniel Girard sat down recently with Steven Weisbrot to share his experiences as one of the country’s leading plaintiff’s advocates for the latest installment of The Angeion Group's Leading Litigators interview series.