“Victims of corporate misconduct typically must choose between two options. They may suffer silently, or they may seek to recover their damages and punish the wrongdoing through a class action.”
Dean M. Harvey
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"One of the nation's premier plaintiffs' firms."
American Lawyer
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"Representing the best qualities of the plaintiffs' bar."
The National Law Journal
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"Their effective and caring advocacy for clients has earned Lieff Cabraser its first-class reputation."
The Daily Journal
Attorneys
Promoting Fair Competition
Dean M. Harvey is an attorney in our San Francisco office. He represents individuals and small companies in antitrust litigation against monopolists and cartels.
Dean’s cases seek to remedy and prevent wrongful conduct by dominant firms. These lawsuits involve the largest and most powerful corporations in the world, and concern a variety of industries and markets, such as pharmaceuticals, microprocessors, food packaging, automobiles, payment systems, air transportation, electric power, municipal construction, and long-haul trucking. Remedies include reimbursing purchasers who have overpaid for price-fixed products, and preventing monopolists from stifling innovation and eliminating competition.
Dean also counsels businesses regarding antitrust risks and opportunities, with a focus on protecting startup companies from efforts by dominant firms to exclude them.
In both 2010 and 2011, Dean was named a “Rising Star” in antitrust litigation by Super Lawyers magazine. In 2006, Dean was awarded the William E. Swope Antitrust Writing Prize.
Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Dean represented both plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust class actions and other complex commercial cases. He also worked for the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, in both the San Francisco field office and the Transportation, Energy, and Agriculture Section in Washington, D.C. Dean clerked for the Honorable James V. Selna of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Dean received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall). While at Boalt, he was an Articles Editor of the California Law Review.
Dean received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and was twice named a Selmer Birkelo Scholar, the college’s highest honor. His studies focused on individual decision making and group coordination, including training in formal modeling, statistics, economic theory, and experimental methods. He was also a resident research fellow at the Graduate School of Yale University, where he designed and tested a game theory model of international norm diffusion.
Awards & Honors
- "Rising Star for Northern California," Super Lawyers, 2010-2011
- "William E. Swope Antitrust Writing Prize," 2006
