Current Role
  • Partner, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
  • Practice focuses on consumer, insurance, and antitrust class actions as well as appellate representation
Experience
  • Snell & Wilmer LLP, 2009-2013 
  • American Inns of Court Pegasus Scholar 2012, study of commercial, media, and privacy law with barristers and judges in the U.K.
Recognition
  • 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2024-2025
  • Rising Star, Class Action/Mass Tort, Super Lawyers, 2015-2017
  • Top Pro Bono Attorneys in Arizona Award, Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education, 2013
Notable Cases
  • Boaden v. Continental Casualty Co.
  • Brown v. Continental Casualty Co.
  • Cheslow v. Continental Casualty Co.
  • Gunn v. Continental Casualty Co.
  • Sieving v. Continental Casualty Co.
  • Koskan v. Continental Casualty Co.
  • Franklin v. Csaa General Insurance Co.
  • Creasman v. Farmers Casualty Ins. Co.
  • Dorazio v. Allstate Fire & Casualty Ins. Co.
  • Doyle v. Pekin Ins. Co.
  • Hacker v. American Family Mutual Personal Ins. Co.
  • Lopez v. Liberty Mutual Personal Ins. Co. 
  • Miller v. Trumbull Ins. Co. 
  • Moshier v. Safeco Insurance Company of America
  • In re Hyundai & Kia Fuel Economy Litigation
  • Lewis v. GEICO
  • Jim Brown v. Electronic Arts Inc.
Publications
  • Co-author, Arizona and Colorado chapters of the ABA’s “A Practitioner’s Guide to Class Actions," 2d edition
Personal Insight

When John’s great-grandfather came from Italy to Boston, he lost his life savings to a man he met named Charles Ponzi. A century later, John takes special pride in protecting the public against broad-based frauds and swindles and the corruption of honest enterprise.