Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins
Honored for banner year securing critical victories on complex data privacy matters with wide-ranging impact.
Mark Mester has extensive experience in class action litigation and served for three years as Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Consumer Class Action Practice Group.
Mr. Mester has been lead counsel in over 1,000 consumer class actions over the last 35+ years. Mr. Mester is presently Lead Counsel in multidistrict litigation for the NCAA in In re NCAA Student-Athlete Concussion Injury Litigation, In re NCAA Student-Athlete Concussion Injury Litigation-Single Sport / Single School (Football) as well as for Beyond Meat in In re Beyond Meat, Inc. Protein Content Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation. Mr. Mester is also Lead Counsel for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a nationwide TCPA class action. He has also served as Lead Counsel in nationwide consumer class actions and multidistrict litigation for American Honda, Apple, Bass Pro, Behr, CCC Intelligent Solutions, Costco, Electrolux, Fairlife, Goldman Sachs, LG Energy, Navistar, Masco, Reckitt Benckiser, Safeway, Walmart, Weyerhaeuser, and Whole Foods.
For many years, Mr. Mester was a member of the firm's Ethics and Pro Bono Committees.
Mr. Mester is currently handling or has successfully handled consumer class litigation for:
Mr. Mester has also successfully handled employment class actions for:
A list of representative cases is included below:
Consumer Class Actions
BIPA Class Actions
Data Breach / Privacy Class Actions
Employment Class Actions
FACTA Class Actions
TCPA Class Actions
Individual Consumer Litigation
(e.g., products liability, unfair competition, conspiracy, fraud)
Other Litigation
Honored for banner year securing critical victories on complex data privacy matters with wide-ranging impact.