Rachel Geman, a partner in the New York office, chairs the firm’s Whistleblower Law/False Claims Act practice group and combats frauds that harm her clients in their lives and misconduct that threatens the fairness and safety of their workplaces and communities.

Recent successes and exemplar ongoing matters:

• Appointed Co-Lead Class Counsel for Colombian national workers in forced labor case (2024)
• Represents the Authors Guild and a proposed class of authors as co-lead interim class counsel in copyright class action litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft (2024)
• Represented a certified class of female employees in the Goldman Sachs Gender litigation ($215 million settlement in 2023)
• Appointed co-lead class counsel for the medical monitoring class in Valsartan contaminated drug litigation (2023)
• Lead counsel for the whistleblower in litigation against AbbVie involving the marketing of Humira ($27 million in settlements as of 2023; programmatic relief in California)
• Appointed co-lead class counsel in consumer privacy litigation against fintech company Plaid (2022 settlement of $58 million and robust injunctive relief)
• Lead counsel for whistleblowers in matter involving fraud in New York’s Indigent Care Program against the Door (2022 settlement of $12.9 million)
• Exemplar earlier cases: Rachel represented consumers in the GM Ignition Switch MDL economic loss litigation (2020 settlement of $121 million); served as co-lead counsel representing the City of Philadelphia in Fair Housing Act litigation against Wells Fargo (2019 settlement with the bank’s funding city programs for communities affected by lending discrimination and agreeing to other relief); served as co-lead class counsel or counsel for the class in consumer financial litigation over “payment protection” products, resulting in more than $50 million in settlements; represented employee benefit plans in recovering $65 million from AXA Rosenberg; represented a class of female financial advisors who secured $39 million plus injunctive relief from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch; and cut her teeth on the False Claims Act years ago in helping to recoup $78.5 million from the University of Phoenix in one of the largest settlements involving fraud on the Department of Education.

Rachel has been recognized by Best Lawyers in the field of Employment Law-Individuals and was named “Lawyer of the Year” in 2014 and 2019; by Lawdragon as one of “500 Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers in America” and as one of “500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America”; she is a Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer and received Recognition for outstanding service to individuals and families who sought compensation under the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Rachel serves as the employee-side Chair of the ABA’s Workplace and Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee and is a CDRC-trained community mediator.

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