Jennifer L. MacPherson

Ms. MacPherson is an associate with the firm. For over two decades, her practice has focused on complex class action litigation.

Ms. MacPherson has prosecuted class actions on behalf of consumers, policyholders, investors, employees, and medical practitioners against the nation’s largest retailers and manufacturers of consumer products, insurers of homes and automobiles, banks, and employers for violations of federal and state consumer, antitrust, securities and labor laws. During this time she has actively litigated complex class action litigation matters involving: false and deceptive advertising by one of the nation’s largest retail mall chains for selling gift cards subject to a monthly service fee in violation of state law; truth in lending claims against a national bank for suspending borrower’s home equity lines of credit; breach of contract claims against national lenders for failing to modify borrower’s home loans after successful completion of a trial period plan; product defect claims against the world’s largest manufacturers of laptops and cell phones; RICO claims against the nation’s largest health insurance companies for denying, delaying and reducing payments to health care providers nationwide; privacy claims against national pharmacies for allegedly using prescription information to conduct targeted marketing campaigns on behalf of drug companies; data breach lawsuits against national banks and retailers for failing to properly safeguard consumer’s personal information.

Education

Ms. MacPherson received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1997 with a J.D. and an L.L.M in tax and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Business and Marketing from the University of Hawaii in 1994.

During law school she was a summer law clerk to the Honorable Walter S. Kirimitsu (Ret.) in the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals and was a research assistant to Professor C. Hugh Friedman author of California Practice Guide: Corporations. She is a member of the California Bar and is licensed to practice before the United States District Courts for the Central, Southern and Northern Districts of California.

Some of the complex class actions Ms. MacPherson has litigated include: Solomon v. Anthem, Inc. (S.D. Fla.); In re Sony VAIO Comput. Notebook Trackpad Litig. (S.D. Cal.); Horvath v. LG Elecs. MobileComm U.S.A., Inc., (S.D. Cal.); Kazemi v. Westfield Am., Inc. (Cal. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cnty.); Frost v. LG Elecs. Mobilecomm U.S.A., Inc. (Cal. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cnty.); Shamrell v. Apple, Inc. (Cal. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cnty.); Ivo Kolar v. CSI Financial Services LLC (Cal. Super. Ct., San Diego Cnty.) (data breach settlement); Harbour, et el. v. California Health & Wellness Plan, et al.(N.D. Cal.) (data breach settlement); Huntzinger v. Suunto Oy, et al.(Cal. Super. Ct., San Diego Cnty.) (defective dive computer settlement); Pulkrabek, et al. v. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.(E.D. Tex.) (defective vehicle settlement); and Costa v. Road Runner Sports, Inc. (Cal. Super. Ct., San Diego Cnty.) (certified class action involving fraudulent, automatically billing scheme).

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