Jason L. Lichtman
Partner, New York Office
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The chair of Lieff Cabraser’s Economic Injury Product Defect Practice Group, partner Jason L. Lichtman has extensive experience leading multidistrict and large class action litigation on behalf of consumer plaintiffs. With a practice focused on consumer protection, data privacy, and damages, Jason played a key role in the recent Anthem Data Breach Litigation, leading plaintiffs’ work with damages experts, including the development of highly technical, comprehensive experts reports, defending depositions of plaintiffs’ experts, and taking defendants’ experts’ depositions. This work contributed heavily to the ground-breaking settlement for plaintiffs of $115 million as well as significant injunctive relief targeting deficient Anthem’s cybersecurity practices.
Numerous courts have appointed Jason to leadership positions in large consumer protection cases, including the exploding Samsung Top-Loading Washing Machines case (Co-Lead Counsel); the Whirlpool Corp. Front-Loading Washer products liability litigation (Co-Lead Counsel); and the Dover v. British Airways airline overcharging case (Class Counsel). In the Whirlpool Defective Washers Products Liability litigation, Jason served as Co-Chair of the Law and Motion Committee, one of the trial counsel, and Lead Settlement Counsel, achieving a nationwide settlement strongly favorable to plaintiffs following a bellwether trial, multiple appeals to the Sixth and Seventh Circuits (all won by plaintiffs), and multiple petitions for certiorari (all defeated by plaintiffs). Jason has also secured major victories as counsel of record before numerous federal appellate courts.
Jason played a key role in the In re: Imprelis Herbicide Marketing Sales Practices and Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2281 (E.D. Pa.), in which the parties reached a major settlement that provided relief to all homeowners and business owners injured by Imprelis. He helped secure a major settlement with Capital One Bank in the ING Direct Litigation pending in federal court in Delaware, in which Capital One will refund consumers more than $150 per loan. He also helped secure a settlement for Hong Leong Finance, Ltd (Singapore), which had been in litigation against Morgan Stanley relating to the sale and marketing of certain financial products.
Jason serves on the executive committee and board of directors for Public Justice Foundation and is Chair of the Public Justice Class Action Committee. Public Justice is devoted to standing up for consumers against unscrupulous payday lenders, reckless polluters, dangerous food producers, and other bad corporate actors. A multiple-year “Super Lawyer” for the New York area, he also served on the Law360 Privacy and Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory Board, providing feedback on Law360’s news coverage, including case updates, policy developments, and trends in various industries. In 2017, the publication named Jason a “Rising Star” for Consumer Protection, and published an extensive profile and interview.
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- The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
J.D. (Cum Laude) – 2006 - Northwestern University
B.A. – 2000
Major: Economics
- District of Columbia, 2007
- Illinois, 2006
- New Jersey, 2011
- New York, 2011
- Utah, 2023
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2012
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, 2016
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, 2012
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 2016
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, 2010
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 2011
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 2012
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, 2014
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, 2013
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 2015
- California Northern District Court
- U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois, 2022
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2006
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 2019
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 2011
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2012
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2012
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 2010
- U.S. District Court, District Court of Oregon , 2016
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, 2016
- U.S. District Court, District of Utah, 2023
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2014
- American Association for Justice
- Public Justice
- Sedona Conference
- Co-author with Elizabeth J. Cabraser, “Proving and Defending Punitive Damages Claims,” 2014
- Co-author with Jonathan D. Selbin, “Overcoming Barriers to Class Certification,” 2014
- Contributing Author, “Ninth Circuit Reshapes California Consumer-Protection Law,” American Bar Association, July 2012
- “Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers in America,” Lawdragon, 2023
- “Super Lawyer for New York Metro,” Super Lawyers, 2017-2022
- “Rising Star,” Consumer Protection, Law360, 2017
- “Rising Star for New York Metro,” Super Lawyers, 2013-2016
- February 24, 2023
27 Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Recognized as Lawdragon “500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers” for 2023 - September 29, 2022
16 Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Selected as 2022 New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars - August 25, 2020
Sixteen Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Recognized as Lawdragon “500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers” for 2020 - September 25, 2017
Nicholas Diamand Reprises Role on Center for Democracy & Technology Advisory Council - October 18, 2016
Spokeo Still Standing: No Sign Of A Circuit Split
- “Spokeo Still Standing: No Sign of a Circuit Split” (with Andrew Kaufman), Law360, October 14, 2016
- “Spotlight on Spokeo: A Win for Consumers” (with Andrew Kaufman), Law360, May 23, 2016
- “Fraud on the Market in a Post-Amgen World” (with Michael Miarmi), Trial Magazine, November 2013