Michael Sobol Named a “Top Plaintiff Lawyer” for 2025 by the Daily Journal

We are proud to announce that Lieff Cabraser partner Michael Sobol has been named to the Daily Journal’s annual listing of the “Top Plaintiff Lawyers in California.” He is one of only 52 attorneys in the state to receive this honor, which recognizes “leading advocates fighting for consumers in personal injury, mass torts, and civil rights cases.”

Read Michael’s Top Plaintiffs Lawyer profile on the Daily Journal website (subscription required).

Congratulations to Michael on this prestigious recognition!

About Michael Sobol

The chair of Lieff Cabraser’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy group since its inception in 2016, Michael W. Sobol leads novel and challenging consumer protection class action lawsuits of first impression. Within the last few years, Michael’s cases have recovered over one billion dollars and have reformed the business practices for the benefit of tens of millions of consumers nationwide, including a $203 million judgment for restitution in a class action suit filed on behalf of a class of over one million California consumers defrauded by Wells Fargo by its improper accounting of debit card transactions.

Michael has been recognized in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers in America (2023–2025), the Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America (2025 and 2026), and the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America (2021–2025). He has also been consistently selected as a Super Lawyer for Northern California (2012–2025).

A 2021 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year for Mass Tort & Class Action Litigation” and a two-time California Daily Journal “Top Cybersecurity Lawyer,” in 2019 Michael was named a “California Lawyer of the Year” for his outstanding work on the Anthem Data Breach litigation. The National Law Journal selected him as a 2017 “Cybersecurity Law Trailblazer” for his significant ongoing efforts “in the fight against criminal cyber activity and towards adding much needed layers of data security in an increasingly digital world of commerce.” Law360 also honored him as a 2017 “MVP for Cybersecurity and Data Privacy.”