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Diane’s practice includes mass torts, class actions, complex business litigation, and a select number of individual civil matters. She has worked extensively on data privacy issues in a variety of settings. Diane served as Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. M. James Lorenz of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California. After her clerkship, Diane worked as a data privacy and commercial litigation associate with a global law firm and then at a premier boutique firm in Santa Barbara.

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Education

• Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Juris Doctor, University of San Diego, School of Law

Publications:

• “Beyond Compliance: Creating a Lawful and Inclusive Privacy Program,” Santa Barbara Lawyer Magazine (October 2022, Issue 601).
• Reexamining Reasonableness: Modernizing the Ellerth/Faragher Defense, UCLA Women’s L.J. (2021).
• Gravely Disabled: The Vestigial Prong of 5150 Designations, Clev. Marshall J.L. & Health (2021).
• Privacy or Protection: The Catch-22 of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Loy. Consumer L. Rev. (2020).
• California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: Considerations for Higher Education Institutions, Career Educ. Rev. (August 2018).
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Career Education, Career Educ. Rev. (July 2018).

John is a skilled litigator with experience in a broad range of complex commercial matters, with an emphasis on antitrust and unfair competition litigation. He has extensive experience representing national and multinational clients in a variety of industries, including construction and homebuilding, retail, travel and leisure, e-commerce, and telecommunications. John has successfully served clients in some of the most complex antitrust actions of recent years in the U.S., U.K., and EU.

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John graduated cum laude from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2012 and was named to the Order of the Coif.  While at Pepperdine, John was the Business & Production Editor of the Pepperdine Law Review and published The Disappearing Schoolhouse Gate: Applying Tinker in the Internet Age, 39 Pepp. L. Rev. 939 (2012).

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John has been selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star each year from 2014–2023.

Jill received her Associate of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Paralegal from the University of La Verne. Jill has been with with our team since 1997 and has many years of experience in complex litigation matters. Jill has extensive experience involving preliminary and final approval of class action settlements, including claim administration and distribution processes. Jill has extensive experience handling settlement classes consisting of multi-millions of members. Jill also has extensive experience in investigating claims and wrongdoing.

Brian is an experienced and respected class action and complex business trial lawyer. Brian has lectured on class actions before various organizations, including the California State Bar, and on Mass Actions in London. He was designated as a Southern California Super Lawyer from 2010 through 2023, and has successfully concluded settlements in excess of $250 million in just the last two years.

In the past 35 years of participating in complex cases, Brian has been involved in numerous notable cases, including the MGM Grand Hotel fire litigation, the Crandall gem case, the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel fire litigation in Puerto Rico, litigation arising out of the Iran-Contra scandal, antitrust cases involving Facebook and Google, and numerous other national class actions. Since 2000, Brian has acted as lead counsel in several class action cases obtaining settlements in excess of $500 million.

Brian is a former President of the Malibu Boys and Girls Club. A noted adventurer, the King of Nepal awarded Brian an anniversary medal for his 2009 summit of Mount Everest. Brian is one of the select few to have summited the highest peaks of all seven continents.

Brianna is a skilled litigator whose practice includes mass torts, class actions, complex business litigation, and a select number of individual civil matters. She has secured 8-figure settlements for multiple victims of corporate wrongdoing and is pivotal in obtaining millions of dollars for her clients in a variety of cases. Brianna started college at 16, and graduated from Columbia University and Duke Law School. At Duke Law she served as executive editor of the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and was a dedicated member of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic. Prior to joining the firm, Brianna practiced with the international law firm O'Melveny & Myers in New York and Los Angeles. She is the Chair of the Board (2022-2023) for Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine and serves on two boards of directors.

Bar Admissions

• New York
• California
  

Education

• Associate of Arts, with distinction, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
• Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University
• Juris Doctor, Duke University School of Law

Brianna has been selected to Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2024, an exclusive list of top-rated attorneys under age 40 chosen after thorough evaluation of numerous criteria. She has also been selected as a Lawyer of Distinction, 2023-2024.

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Greg received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University.

Greg has experience in complex document review, as well as extensive experience in both reviewing and maintaining document collections on Relativity, Catalyst, and other platforms.

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