David Rudolph to Speak on Trying Data Privacy Class Actions at BASF Seminar on September 1, 2026

On Tuesday, September 1, 2026, Lieff Cabraser partner David Rudolph will serve as a panelist at the San Francisco Bar Association presentation of “The Jury is In: Trying Data Privacy Class Actions” held at the BASF offices in San Francisco. Subtitled “Lessons from Rodriguez v. Google and Frasco v. Flo Health,” the panel will take place from 5:30-6:45 pm and provide 1 hour of MCLE credit.

The panel will cover how data privacy class actions have moved from frequent pretrial settlements to being litigated to verdict, culminating in two landmark trials in 2025. Attendees will learn about the Rodriguez v. Google and Frasco v. Flo Health trials and jury verdicts; hear how privacy trials both differ from and resemble other class action trials; and hear perspectives from trial counsel and academics on post-trial motions, appeals, and the next wave of privacy class actions heading to trial.

For more information, visit BASF’s site.

About David Rudolph

A partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office, David Rudolph is a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy and Antitrust and Intellectual Property practice groups. He has extensive experience litigating core technical issues in privacy cases, including in In re Anthem, Inc. Data Breach Litigation, MDL No. 2617 (N.D. Cal.), arising from a data breach that affected nearly 80 million of Anthem’s members, and in Campbell v. Facebook, Inc., No. 5:13-cv- 5996 (N.D. Cal.), in which Facebook users asserted that Facebook violated their privacy rights by scanning their private email messages.

David has represented end-payor classes in pharmaceutical antitrust litigation, including in the Cipro drug antitrust cases, the Restasis antitrust litigation, and the Generic Pharmaceuticals Price-Fixing cases. In 2017, David shared the “Outstanding Private Practice Antitrust Achievement” award from the American Antitrust Institute for his work on the Cipro case. He also represents plaintiffs in In re Domestic Airline Travel Antitrust Litigation (D.D.C.), a class action lawsuit alleging a conspiracy by United, American, Delta, and Southwest to artificially inflate domestic airline ticket prices by artificially limiting seating capacity.

David is also the author of Litigating Corporate Surveillance: Privacy, Autonomy, Power, and Democracy in the Courtroom (Routledge, 2025). In this book, he offers a critical corrective to prevailing views on the legality of corporate data exploitation practices, arguing that litigation—rather than legislation alone—is essential to enforcing privacy rights in democratic societies.