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Jeremiah Frei-Pearson

Email: jfrei-pearson@fbfglaw.com
Phone: 914-298-3281 ext 32804
Position: Partner

Education:
Skidmore College
Stanford Law School

Memberships:
Top 100 Trial Lawyers.

Admissions:
New York State
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Western District of New York
United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
Southern District of Illinois
Judicial Panel on Multididtrict Litigation

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Jeremiah Frei-Pearson is a founding partner of Finkelstein, Blankinship, Frei-Pearson & Garber. He is a passionate advocate and an experienced litigator who represents employees, consumers, and people with disabilities in complex class actions.  Mr. Frei-Pearson practices in federal and state courts throughout the country and his areas of expertise include class actions, privacy, consumer fraud, employment law, and civil rights.

Mr. Frei-Pearson has been selected as a member of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers, Best Attorneys of America and a Super Lawyer for every year since 2014, and has received numerous awards for his legal work, including the New York City Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award for his work on death penalty cases, a citation from the New York City Council for his child advocacy work, and the Palomountain Award from Skidmore College. 

Mr. Frei-Pearson is also active in his community.  He serves as an elected member of the White Plains Common Council, where he chairs the Youth Bureau.  My. Frei-Pearson previously chaired, and is currently a member of, the Mayor’s Advisory Committee For People With Disabilities and the White Plains Sustainability Committee.  He also serves on the Boards of Legal Services of the Hudson Valley and Meals on Wheels of White Plains.

Prior to founding the Firm, Mr. Frei-Pearson was an associate with Kaye Scholer LLP (now Arnold & Porter LLP), a multinational law firm, and a staff attorney with Children’s Rights, a national public interest law firm representing children in foster care in class action reform lawsuits.  Mr. Frei-Pearson received his B.A. from Skidmore College, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa in 2000 and he earned his J.D. in 2003 from Stanford Law School.  While in law school, Mr. Frei-Pearson was a Public Interest Fellow and served as Senior Symposium Editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review.

A sampling of Mr. Frei-Pearson’s significant cases includes:

  • Appointed co-class counsel in Durling v. Papa John’s International, Inc., No. 16-03592 (S.D.N.Y.).  Class action on behalf of underpaid pizza delivery drivers.  After seven years of litigation, during which time the Court conditionally granted Plaintiffs’ certification motion, the Court finally approved a record settlement valued at $20 million.  This settlement is easily the highest settlement obtained in any pizza delivery driver wage and hour lawsuit.
  • Appointed class counsel in Farrugio v. 918 James Receiver, LLC, No. 3831/2017 (Onondaga Cty. Supreme Court).  Class action on behalf of residents of an unsafe nursing home.  The Court denied multiple motions to dismiss and granted Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, before the Court approving a record settlement that required defendants to pay $5.95 million to residents and required the owners to hire more staff and make conditions safer in the nursing home.  This settlement is easily the highest settlement obtained in any New York nursing home reform class action.
  • Appointed co-class counsel in Saint Joseph Health System Medical Information Cases, JCCP No. 4716 (Cal. Sup. Ct.).  Class action on behalf of data breach victims.  The Court granted Plaintiffs’ motion to certify a class denied Saint Joseph’s motion for summary judgment.  The Court approved a record settlement valued at approximately $39 million, which provided the most money per capita to individual class members in a data breach settlement as of the settlement date.
  • Appointed co-class counsel in Lowell v. Lyft, No. 17-6251 (S.D.N.Y.).  Class action on behalf of people with disabilities whom Lyft refuses to serve.  During more than seven years of litigation, the Court has denied Lyft’s motion to dismiss and granted Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. 
  • Appointed co-class counsel in Castillo v. Seagate Technology LLC, No. 16-02136 (N.D. Cal.).  Class action on behalf of over 12,000 individuals victimized by a data breach.  After denying a motion to dismiss, the Court approved a settlement valued at up to $42 million.
  • Appointed class counsel in Sackin v. Transperfect Global, Inc., No.  17-1469 (S.D.N.Y.).  Class action on behalf of over 4,000 individuals victimized by a data breach.  After denying a motion to dismiss, the Court approved a settlement valued at over $40 million.
  • Appointed co-class counsel in Reed v. Friendly’s Ice Cream, LLC, No. 15-cv-00298 (M.D. Pa.).  The Court denied motions to dismiss and ruled for plaintiffs on several other motions in this wage and hour class action before approving a settlement valued at over $4.6 million.
  • Counsel to the Plaintiffs in G. ex rel. Stricklin v. Henry, No. 08-cv-074 (N.D. Okl.).  In this class action to reform Oklahoma’s foster care system, the Court certified a statewide class of Oklahoma’s foster children (an opinion that was affirmed by the Tenth Circuit).  As a result of this litigation, Oklahoma has committed to restructuring its state foster care agency to eliminate dangerous practices (such as an unsafe shelter where babies in state custody disproportionately suffered fractured skulls), and improve measurable outcomes for children in state custody.

Mr. Frei-Pearson is admitted to practice in New York and is a member of the bars of the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Districts of New York.