Attorney & Professional Profiles
Partners
A. J. De Bartolomeo has eighteen 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.
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.
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
Christina ("Dena") Connolly Sharp
Christina ("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.
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.
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.
Philip Obbard's experience in complex litigation matters extends to class actions and mass torts arising under personal injury, labor and employment, civil rights, antitrust and consumer laws.
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).
Of Counsel
Anthony K. Lee has over fifteen years of experience prosecuting and resolving class and complex actions in federal and state courts around the country.
Professionals
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.
Samantha Elboim graduated magna cum laude from Boston University in 2009 where she received a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in pre-law.
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.
Elizabeth Schneider is a 2002 graduate of San Francisco State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Minor in English and American Literature and was on the Deans List for the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Veronika Zatulovskaya graduated cum laude from Santa Clara University in 2009 with a B.S. in Political Science, a B.A. in Spanish Studies, and a minor in International Studies.
