Theo Benjamin

Associate at Edelson PC

Theo Benjamin is an accomplished legal professional currently serving as an Associate at Edelson PC since May 2017, having previously held the role of Summer Associate. Theo co-founded and served as President of the International Refugee Assistance Project from October 2016 to September 2018. Prior experience includes serving as Director of Academics at Creative Academics from August 2015 to May 2018 and as a Mentor in Academic Services at Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services from August 2014 to January 2015. Educational credentials include a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, obtained from 2016 to 2019, a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History, Philosophy, and Germanic Languages from the University of Chicago, completed in 2014, and a short-term study in Norwegian Language and Scandinavian Government & Politics at the University of Oslo in 2012. Theo is a graduate of Santa Monica High School, class of 2010.

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Santa Monica, United States

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Edelson PC

EDELSON PC is a law firm concentrating on high-stake’s plaintiff’s work ranging from class and mass actions to public client investigations and prosecutions. The cases we have litigated -- as either lead counsel or as part of a broader leadership structure -- have resulted in settlements and verdicts totalling over $20 billion. We hold records for the largest jury verdict in a privacy case ($925m), the largest consumer privacy settlement ($650m), and the largest TCPA settlement ($76m). We also secured one of the most important consumer privacy decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court (Robins v. Spokeo). Our class actions, brought against the national banks in the wake of the housing collapse, restored over $5 billion in home equity credit lines. We served as counsel to a member of the 11-person Tort Claimant’s Committee in the PG&E Bankruptcy, resulting in an historic $13.5 billion settlement. We successfully represented dozens of family members who lost loved ones in the Boeing 737-Max plane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. We are the only firm to have established that online apps can constitute illegal gambling under state law, resulting in settlements that collectively are worth $200 million. We are co-lead counsel in the NCAA personal injury concussion cases, leading an MDL involving over 300 class action lawsuits. And we are representing, or have represented, regulators in cases involving the deceptive marketing of opioids, environmental cases, privacy cases against Facebook, Uber, Google and others, cases related to the marketing of e-cigarettes to children, and cases asserting claims that energy companies and for-profit hospitals abused the public trust.


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