Attorney & Professional Profiles
Partners
A. J. De Bartolomeo has twenty years of experience in complex litigation, including the prosecution and defense of class actions arising under the securities, communications, consumer protection and copyright laws, and experience in the collection of class action recoveries and claims administration in bankruptcy proceedings.
Eric H. Gibbs specializes in the prosecution of consumer class actions. Mr. Gibbs has served as court-appointed lead counsel, class counsel and liaison counsel in numerous consumer class actions throughout the United States.
Daniel C. Girard serves as the firm’s managing partner and coordinates the prosecution of various securities, antitrust and consumer legal matters handled by the firm. He has successfully prosecuted over 75 class action matters and served in leadership positions in a number of precedent-setting cases.
Dylan Hughes specializes in the prosecution of consumer and employment class actions. He represents consumers in cases involving defective products, telecommunications, credit cards, product liability, credit repair, employment misclassification and wage and hour under state and federal laws.
Jonathan K. Levine has more than 20 years of experience prosecuting complex securities fraud, accounting fraud and class action litigation. He has served and is serving in a leadership capacity in numerous complex class actions in federal courts throughout the United States and in state courts in California.
Elizabeth C. Pritzker is a seasoned litigation and trial attorney with broad experience in complex litigation matters, including the prosecution of consumer, product liability, and securities class actions.
Amanda M. Steiner is a 1997 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where she served as an Associate Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (1995-96) and Articles Editor for the Berkeley Women’s Law Journal (1994-97).
Associates
Matthew Brinegar is a 2004 graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, where he was a member of the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal. He received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in political science from The Ohio State University.
Claire Choo is a 2007 graduate of the University of San Francisco, School of Law, where she was a member of the legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi—Stephens Inn, the Korean American Law Student Association and the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.
Todd Espinosa is a 2000 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he participated in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and Tenant Advocacy Project.
Matthew B. George is a 2005 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. He received his undergraduate degree in political science and criminal justice, magna cum laude, from Chapman University in 2002, where he was a Presidential Scholar.
Scott Grzenczyk is a 2011 graduate of the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where he was the Chair of the Moot Court Board and the Executive Editor of the UC Davis Journal of International Law and Policy.
Geoffrey A. Munroe is a 2003 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Torts, Business Law & Policy and Computer Law.
Ian Samson is a 2011 graduate, cum laude, of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was a Senior Supervising Editor for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
Dena Connolly Sharp is a 2006 graduate, cum laude, of the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where she was a member of the Thurston Society and was the recipient of the Best Oral Advocate Award.
David Stein is a 2007 graduate of the Emory University School of Law, where he was an Executive Notes & Comments Editor for the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal and authored Wrong Problem, Wrong Solution: How Congress Failed the American Consumer, 23 EMORY Bankr. Dev. J. 619 (2007).
Lesley Vittetoe is a 2010 graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she was a member of the Investor Justice Clinic, assisting investors in legal actions involving allegations of wrongdoing by securities firms.
Janice Yi is a 2007 graduate of UCLA Law School, where she was an Articles Editor for the Asian Pacific American Law Journal.
Amy Zeman is a 2010 graduate, magna cum laude, of the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where she was a member of the Thurston Society and served on the Hastings Law Journal.
Professionals
Loren is a litigation assistant with Girard Gibbs specializing in securities and financial fraud cases. He earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science with a concentration in Classics from Kenyon College in Ohio.
Brendan Brown is a litigation assistant with Girard Gibbs, working directly with clients and assisting attorneys in Consumer Protection, Wage and Hour, and Financial Fraud Litigation. He is a 2010 graduate from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science.
Eileen Epstein is the Director of Client Relations and Marketing for Girard Gibbs. She received her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 2005, where she was selected as a competing member of the Moot Court Honor Society and served on the Moot Court Executive Board.
John Hollis is a litigation assistant with Girard Gibbs working directly with clients and assisting attorneys in Consumer Protection, Wage and Hour, and Financial Fraud Litigation. He is a 2007 graduate of Bowdoin College...
Kaitlin Jacobson is a litigation assistant with Girard Gibbs specializing in complex financial analysis. She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Duke University in 2009.
Alexandra Jones is a litigation assistant with Girard Gibbs working directly with clients and assisting attorneys on medical mass tort, employment law and consumer protection litigation. She received a B.A. in Political Science, with a focus on political economy and international relations
Vivek Ramani is a litigation assistant with Girard Gibbs. He is a 2010 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Political Science and minor in Public Policy.
Elizabeth Schneider is a litigation assistant specializing in medical mass tort, consumer protection and financial fraud litigation. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Minor in English and American Literature...
Virginia Slutu is a graduate of Cergy-Pontoise University in France, where she was a member of the moot court team and represented the team in oral argument at the Willem C. Vis international arbitration moot competition in Vienna, Austria.
Katherine Ullman is a litigation assistant with Girard Gibbs working directly with clients and assisting attorneys in labor and employment, consumer protection and financial fraud. She is a 2011 graduate from Vassar College where she received a B.A. in Sociology
