Hartley LLP founder Jason Hartley will join some of the country’s foremost experts in class actions as a speaker at next week’s American Bar Association (ABA)’s Class Actions Virtual 2020 National Institute. He will moderate the panel discussion “COVID Cases: Who’s Phishing, Who’s Legit?” on Thursday, October 15.  Learn more about the ABA Class Actions [...]

SAN DIEGO (September 9, 2020): Hartley LLP attorney Fatima Brizuela was recognized by local business paper The Daily Transcript as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” for 2020. The Daily Transcript made its selection after considering rising stars in real estate, construction, law, financial services, government, nonprofit organizations, and individual business owner/operators” and [...]

Meatpackers Constrain Beef Supplies, Artificially Inflate Domestic Beef Prices SAN DIEGO (September 8, 2020): San Diego-based law firm Hartley LLP was appointed as co-lead counsel in its class action complaint against the country’s largest meat suppliers for conspiring to constrain beef supplies and for artificially inflating domestic beef prices. Cargill, Inc., JBS USA Food [...]

SAN DIEGO (August 26, 2020): Hartley LLP attorneys, with lead class counsel Lieff Cabraser and Fine Kaplan and Black, obtained final approval of a $48,950,000 settlement in a class action regarding the use of “no-poach” agreements by the country’s largest railway equipment suppliers in an effort to reduce competition and suppress employee compensation. Each [...]

SAN DIEGO (August 20, 2020): Hartley LLP attorney Fatima Brizuela was recognized in the 2021 edition of Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch in the practice area category “Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs.” Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch recognizes lawyers who are earlier in their careers for their outstanding professional excellence in [...]

SAN DIEGO (June 24, 2020): Hartley LLP Founder Jason Hartley was named to the Daily Journal’s list of Top Antitrust Attorneys for 2020 and was featured in the publication’s June 24 issue. Hartley was one of a select number of attorneys named to the statewide list which features “a mix of lawyers from the [...]

Hartley LLP filed a class action complaint on behalf of direct purchasers of packaged beef products from the country’s largest beef meatpackers, Cargill, National Beef, Tyson and JBS. The complaint, filed in the District of Minnesota, alleges the defendants engaged in anticompetitive behavior at both ends of their product lines in order to artificially [...]

Zoom’s Inability to Secure Client Information Exposes Confidential Information of Class Members SAN DIEGO (June 1, 2020): San Diego-based law firm Hartley LLP filed a class action complaint last month against online video communications platform Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) for the platform’s negligent data security practices which exposed the confidential information of its users. [...]

Publishers Eradicate Secondary Market; Students Required to Pay Inflated Prices for Course Materials SAN DIEGO (May 28, 2020): San Diego-based law firm Hartley LLP filed a complaint earlier this month against major higher education textbook publishers Cengage Learning, Inc., McGraw Hill LLC, Pearson Education, and Educational Publishers Enforcement Group (collectively, the “Publishers”) for fixing [...]