Jeffrey Hammer

• Regularly represent clients in online privacy, data breach, and Telephone Consumer Protection Act consumer class actions.
• Obtained eight-figure judgment on behalf of online streaming company against director/producer who breached contract and used production funds for personal use.
• Obtained a judgment in the Southern District of New York declaring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its enabling statute unconstitutional in their entirety.
• Defending an international insurance company in multiple class, collective, and representative actions in federal and state courts throughout the United States, which allege that insurance sales agents were misclassified as independent contractors and were not paid for training.
• Represented a group of former senior executives in a confidential arbitration against their former employer, which was found to have wrongfully withheld tens of millions of dollars owed to the executives in connection with their interests in hundreds of real estate partnerships.
• Defended the former president and chief operating officer of America’s largest home mortgage lender against more than two dozen lawsuits, and investigations by multiple state and federal agencies that followed the subprime mortgage crisis.
• Defended video streaming company in six-week arbitration against claims for trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and fraud. Obtained award finding in favor of client on all claims.
• Won summary judgment for defendant in a case alleging misappropriation of trade secret, fraud, and other business torts in connection with a company that developed a cutting-edge technology to generate potable water out of the ambient humidity in the air.
• Won early dismissal with prejudice of a statewide class action by plaintiff landlords alleging unfair business practices against sharing economy tech client.
• Represented largest hospital in northern Nevada in legal malpractice lawsuit.
• Represented major movie studios in numerous participation cases.
• Obtained guilty verdict in numerous criminal trials while working temporarily for the Los Angeles City Attorney as part of the Trial Advocacy Project.
• In a pro bono matter, obtained settlements totaling more than $1 million and significant building-wide repairs for tenants in slum housing litigation with the Inner City Law Center.

Jeff Hammer is an experienced litigator and counselor who focuses on complex commercial litigation matters.  He regularly represents clients in a broad spectrum of industries, including technology, financial services, real estate, consumer products, and insurance.  Jeff represents clients at all stages of litigation in state and federal courts across the country, from pre-suit counseling through trial and appeals. 

Jeff has significant experience in wide range of substantive areas, including disputes involving securities claims, business torts, M&A disputes, trade secret claims, consumer fraud, and contract disputes.  He also represents clients in putative class and collective actions throughout the country.

Prior to law school, Jeff worked as a civil engineer designing bridges, highways, water systems, and other infrastructure projects.