HAGENS BERMAN

Jeff D. Friedman - Partner

Mr. Friedman is a partner at Hagens Berman's San Francisco office where he specializes in class actions against large corporations involving securities fraud, consumer protection and privacy rights violations and has litigated numerous cases on behalf of class members resulting in multi-million dollar settlements.

Mr. Friedman's current focus is on consumer protection and antitrust litigation, including In Re eBay Seller Antitrust Litig., a class action on behalf of all eBay sellers who claim eBay is monopolizing and attempting to monopolize the online auction and person-to-person payment system markets, as well as class actions against Apple Inc., Bill Me Later, Inc., Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless for consumer protection violations. Also, he was recently appointed interim class counsel for a national class-action complaint against the optical disc drive industry.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Friedman worked with Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, where he negotiated resolution of several multi-million dollar securities fraud and consumer actions, including an action against Dell, Inc. on behalf of nearly one million consumers, based on allegations involving Dell's bait-and-switch financing and sales practices.

Mr. Friedman's legal experience covers wide-ranging areas of corporate fraud and complex commercial transactions. From 1997-2000, Mr. Friedman was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California (Los Angeles). As an AUSA, Mr. Friedman tried numerous federal cases and prosecuted matters involving investor, bank, and real estate fraud, tax evasion, narcotics trafficking, and money laundering. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's office, Mr. Friedman clerked for the Honorable Manuel L. Real, United States District Court Judge, Central District of California.

Mr. Friedman graduated with a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Washington in 1991, where he was a member of the varsity baseball team. Mr. Friedman obtained his J.D., magna cum laude, from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1994, where he was on the Dean's list, an Emery School of Law Merit Scholarship Recipient, and a research assistant to the Dean of the law school. He is licensed to practice law in California and admitted in the Central and Northern Districts and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.