Aaron M. Sheanin

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Education
• J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1999
  James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
• B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1993
  Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

• California;
• New York;
• New Jersey
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit;
• United States District Courts for the Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Districts of California

Memberships
• American Bar Association
• San Francisco Bar Association

Aaron M. Sheanin has extensive experience in complex litigation matters, including the prosecution of securities fraud and corporate governance cases on behalf of individual and institutional investors, as well as antitrust and complex consumer actions. He also advises several state pension funds and private institutional investors with respect to securities matters. Mr. Sheanin is one of the lead attorneys prosecuting several class actions against UBS, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Wachovia, Deutsche Bank and other brokers, arising out of the manipulation of the $330 billion market for auction rate securities. He serves as co-lead counsel in In re Nvidia Corp. Securities Litigation. He recently served as lead counsel in Brennan v. AT&T Corp., a nationwide class action challenging AT&T’s practice of assessing long distance telephone service charges to non-customers, as lead counsel in Rasnake v. NetZero, Inc., a nationwide class action challenging NetZero’s practice of billing customers after cancellation of their internet service, and as co-chair of the Discovery Committee in Natural Gas Antitrust Cases I, II, III and IV, antitrust litigation against numerous natural gas companies for manipulating the California natural gas market, which achieved settlements in excess of $160 million.

Mr. Sheanin is a 1999 graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where he was a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Sheanin is a member of the American Bar Association and the San Francisco Bar Association. He has presented before the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Contingent Fees (Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section), and is a contributing author to “California Class Actions Practice and Procedure” (Matthew Bender, 1st Ed. 2003). From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Sheanin was a Pro Se law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to joining Girard Gibbs, Mr. Sheanin was an associate with Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein LLP, where he had extensive experience prosecuting class action cases involving consumer protection, product defect and employment discrimination. In the summer of 1997, he was a judicial extern to the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr. of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. He is admitted to the California, New York and New Jersey Bars.