Law360 has selected Lieff Cabraser partners Daniel Chiplock and Melissa Gardner to serve on its 2024 Editorial Advisory Boards. Mr. Chiplock will contribute his expertise to the Securities Editorial Advisory Board, while Ms. Gardner will lend her knowledge to the Cybersecurity & Privacy Editorial Advisory Board, enhancing the publication’s coverage in these critical areas.
Law360’s editorial advisory boards are intended “to get feedback on Law360‘s coverage and gain insight from top experts in the field on how best to shape future coverage.” Board members also provide Law360‘s reporters with an additional pool of potential story ideas and commentary sources.
Congratulations to Daniel and Melissa!
About Daniel P. Chiplock
A partner in Lieff Cabraser’s New York office, Daniel P Chioplock is the Chair of the Securities & Financial Fraud practice group. He has played an active role in virtually all of the firm’s financial cases over the last two decades, including the firm’s multi-year investigation and litigation concerning overcharges in foreign currency exchange transactions by custodial banks such as BNY Mellon. That case, litigated in partnership with the Department of Justice and the New York Attorney General’s office, resulted in more than $500 million in recoveries for pension funds and other affected institutions. Of Dan’s and co-counsel’s efforts, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the SDNY stated: “This really was an extraordinary case in which plaintiff’s counsel performed…an extraordinary service… They did a wonderful job in this case…. This was an outrageous wrong committed … and plaintiffs’ counsel deserve a world of credit for taking it on, for running the risk, for financing it and doing a great job.”
Dan has also been heavily involved in numerous shareholder derivative lawsuits led by the firm, including cases against Broadcom and Cablevision for backdating stock options awards to company executives, and currently against the Board of Fox Corp. for damages stemming from Fox’s actionable defamation of Dominion and Smartmatic in the wake of the 2020 election. On the consumer front, Dan has represented New York consumers overcharged by deceptive trade practices by Microsoft Corporation, as well as customers victimized by the practice of numerous national banks of reordering check payments in order to charge excessive overdraft fees.
About Melissa Gardner
Melissa Gardner is a partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office with a practice focused on digital privacy and consumer protection complex litigation. A pioneering advocate for personal rights and dignity in every domain, Melissa has been a key player in precedent-setting class actions that have put an end to numerous invasive and misleading corporate business practices, and recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for consumers. Her past and current work includes litigation challenging website tracking technology, mobile device tracking and data sharing software, deceptive design in financial technology apps and software, misuse of identities in online advertising, invasions of email, online messaging, and other electronic communications privacy, platforms that facilitate identity theft and fraud, deficient cybersecurity practices, and other violations of consumer rights, including a recent class action settlement, on the eve of trial, of medical battery claims on behalf of purchasers of allegedly experimental and unreliable medical testing.
Melissa was named a Rising Star for Northern California for seven consecutive years by Super Lawyers, selected for Best Lawyers’ Ones to Watch 2021 inaugural edition and each year since, named to the first edition of Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation, and named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers in America in 2023.
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