Ed represents institutional clients in all aspects of complex litigation, with an emphasis on high-stakes consumer and commercial litigation. His focus includes unfair competition, deceptive practices, cybersecurity, and privacy class actions. Ed also advises major corporations on complex cybersecurity incidents, including in some of the largest data breaches and ransomware attacks in U.S. history, and is frequently acknowledged as a leading cyber law practitioner in the United States.

Ed has acted as lead counsel in numerous class and mass actions, arbitrations, complex domestic and cross-border business disputes, government investigations, and other high-profile litigation matters. He also regularly provides strategic counsel on sensitive cybersecurity and privacy issues, advising executive leadership and boards of directors on mergers and acquisitions, public relations, and crisis management.

Ed has been named a Top 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyer by Lawdragon in 2024, 2025, and 2026, a Top Cyber Lawyer by the Daily Journal and The Legal 500, and a National Cybersecurity & Privacy Rising Star by Law360 and LexisNexis.

Representative Experience

• Currently representing clients in a broad array of individual and nationwide consumer class/mass actions, arbitrations, and government investigations brought under state and federal privacy laws.
• Currently representing a specialty retailer in a highly publicized unfair competition and Lanham Act dispute brought by a leading competitor.
• Regularly leads incident response teams in the wake of major cybersecurity and ransomware attacks.
• Represented clients in multiple government investigations, including inquiries brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS), and various state attorneys general.
• Secured complete dismissals of over 4,000 pending and threatened mass arbitration claims alleging violations of consumer privacy and wiretap laws brought against a prominent specialty retailer.
• Achieved full dismissals in multiple MDL privacy, class, and representative actions involving major vehicle original equipment manufacturers.
• Obtained complete dismissals in dozens of individual and class actions alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Unfair Competition Law (UCL), and wiretap laws.
• Defended a national fast-food chain in a data breach class action and reached a favorable individual settlement after three years of protracted litigation.
• Represented an online retailer in a nationwide technology and false advertising class action, successfully precluding all class claims.
• Acted for a leading homebuilder in several nationwide product defect class actions and defeated class certification.
• Defended a medical device manufacturer in multiple class actions and successfully foreclosed the class claims.
• Represented an information services provider in class litigation alleging deceptive marketing and obtained complete dismissals.
• Secured a favorable appellate published opinion for a telecommunications company in a bellwether class action.