Consumer fraud & privacy lawyers

John A. Yanchunis built the law of data-breach recovery, from the $117.5 million Yahoo settlement through Equifax, Capital One and OPM to the $425.65 million Rodriguez v. Google privacy verdict of September 2025.

Gary M. Klinger litigates data-breach and consumer-privacy class actions, including the TCPA class certified against All Web Leads in Chicago federal court.

Gary E. Mason led the Google Buzz privacy class action to an $8.5 million cy pres settlement and litigates data-breach and defective-product class actions.

Leonard A. Bennett’s plaintiff-side work spans credit reporting, debt collection, individual verdicts, and high-cost lending cases.

Tina Wolfson handles biometric privacy, digital tracking, platform security, antitrust, and consumer class-action litigation.

E. Michelle Drake represents consumers in data-breach, privacy, credit-reporting, background-check, and class-action litigation.

Eric H. Gibbs finds the common design beneath millions of transactions and sets it before a court, from the $105 million Providian settlement to the $115 million Anthem breach resolution and the Eaton Fire survivors.

Oklahoma City class-action lawyer William B. Federman co-led the Integris Health data-breach case to a $30 million settlement for 2.4 million patients.

James A. Francis makes credit bureaus and background screeners answer in court for what their databases say about people, from Cortez v. Trans Union to the $60 million Ramirez verdict that reached the Supreme Court.

Michael Kanovitz tried Rogers v. BNSF, the first BIPA class action to reach a jury, and led the Cook County Jail strip-search class case before Judge Kennelly.

Chicago consumer lawyer who argued Heintz v. Jenkins, the 1995 Supreme Court ruling that lawyers who regularly collect consumer debts are FDCPA debt collectors.

Former cartel prosecutor in the Morgan Crucible obstruction trial; class counsel for RAV4 owners whose suit drove Toyota’s recall of 1.85 million vehicles.

Co-lead counsel for pork consumers suing processors and Agri Stats, with $212 million in settlements, and for poultry and meat plant workers in wage cases.

Norman E. Siegel leads data-privacy, consumer, insurance, and complex class actions from Stueve Siegel Hanson in Kansas City.

Katrina Carroll represents consumers in data-privacy, biometric-privacy, consumer-fraud, product-liability, and class-action litigation.

Terence R. Coates co-led the Elekta genetic-data breach and Advocate Aurora pixel class actions, which ended in $8.9 million and $12.225 million settlements.

Co-lead class counsel in the $609 million EpiPen settlements with Pfizer and Mylan; tried ITyX v. Kodak Alaris; interim lead counsel in Google RTB privacy case.

One of trial counsel for the class in the $1.06 billion Urethane judgment against Dow; lead counsel for end payers in the generic-drug price-fixing MDL.

James J. Pizzirusso represents plaintiffs in data-breach, privacy, consumer-protection, and class-action litigation.

Hassan A. Zavareei’s plaintiff-side work spans bank fees, student accounts, small-dollar credit, and consumer-finance appeals.

Michael W. Sobol’s plaintiff-side banking work spans overdraft trials and appeals, consumer credit, and coordinated litigation.

Brent W. Johnson co-chairs Cohen Milstein’s antitrust practice and led its teams for poultry workers and chicken buyers suing processors and Agri Stats.

Joseph R. Saveri led the engineers’ no-poach class against Apple and Google and twice took a capacitor price-fixing class to trial in San Francisco.

Dena C. Sharp gave the closing in the $14.975 million Chart fertility-tank verdict and co-led the Lidoderm end-payor class to a $104.75 million settlement.