Harvard Law School

Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Name: William B. Rubenstein

HLS Title: Professor of Law

The faculty member above engages from time to time in outside activities, some of which are compensated, some of which are ongoing, and also has outside financial interests that may relate to his/her scholarly activities. The disclosures below are intended to provide interested parties information about potential conflicts of interest during the relevant period that might exist between the faculty member's scholarly and teaching activities, on the one hand, and his/her outside activities, on the other hand.
Client/Interest Role/Interest Issue/Matter Dates
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on behalf of Google LLC Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - Brown et al. v. Google LLC et al., Civil Action No. 4:20-cv-03664, N.D. Cal. (2024) February 2024 - ongoing
Zelle LLP and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP on behalf of United Healthcare Services, Inc. Expert / Consultant Common benefit fee issues - Staley et al v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. et al, 3:19-cv-02573, N.D. Cal. (2022) June 2022 - ongoing
Burns Charest, LLP as Co-Lead Counsel for Upstream Plaintiffs Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees issues - In re Upstream Addicks and Barker (Texas) Flood-Control Reservoirs, Sub-Master Docket No. 17-9001L , Ct. of Federal Claims (2022) October 2021 - ongoing
A class of detainees at St. Louis’s Medium Security Institution, with ArchCity Defenders and Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC Counsel Class certification issues - James Cody, et al v. City of St. Louis, Case No. 22-2348, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit December 2022 - June 2024
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP as Lead Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - Health Republic Insurance Company v. U.S., Civil Action No. 1:16-cv-259C-KCD, U.S. Court of Federal Claims (2023) February 2023 - March 2024
Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, LLC as Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - Parris, et al. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., Case No. 2023LA000672, 18th Jud. Cir., DuPage County, Illinois (2024) January 2024 - February 2024
Dovel & Luner, LLP as Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - Barr v. SelectBlinds LLC, Case No. 2:22-cv-08326-PD, C.D. Cal. (2024) November 2023 - December 2023
Interim Settlement Class Counsel for Political Subdivisions Expert / Consultant Expert report on history and structure of settlement allocation provisions - In re McKinsey & Co., Inc. National Prescription Opiate Consultant Litigation, MDL 2996, Civ. Action No. 3:21-md-02996, N.D. Cal. (2023) September 2023 - November 2023
Gupta Wessler PLLC and Motley Rice LLC as Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - National Veterans Legal Services Program, et al. v. United States, Civil Action No. 1:16-CV-00745-PLF, D.D.C. (2023) September 2023 - October 2023
Keller Rohrback LLP, Edelson PC, and Stoll Berne as Lead Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fee issues in complex proceeding - James, et al., v. PacifiCorp, et al., Civil Action No. 20CV33885, Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Multnomah (2023) June 2023 - September 2023
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP as Lead Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - In re Wells Fargo & Company Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 1:20-cv-04494, S.D.N.Y.. (2023) July 2023 - August 2023
Labaton Sucharow LLP as Lead Counsel for a class of PG&E securities holders Expert / Consultant Constitutionality of procedures for resolving claims in the aggregate within a bankruptcy proceeding - In re: PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Case No. 19-30088(DM), U.S. Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Cal. (2023) May 2023 - June 2023
Keller Rohrback L.L.P. and Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP as Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, Civil Action No. 3:18-md-02843, N.D. Cal. (2023) January 2023 - June 2023
Edelson PC as Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney’s fees issues - Benson v. DoubleDown Interactive, LLC, Civil Action No. 2:18-cv-00525, W.D. Wash. (2022); Ferrando v. Zynga Inc., Civil Action No. 2:22-cv-00214, W.D. Wash. (2022); Reed v. Scientific Games Corp., Civil Action No. 2:18-cv-00565, W.D. Wash. (2022); Kater v. Churchill Downs, Civil Action No. 2:15-cv-00612, W.D. Wash. (2020); Wilson v. Playtika, Ltd., Civil Action No. 3:18-cv-05277, W.D. Wash. (2020), Wilson v. Huuuge, Civil Action No. 3:18-cv-05276, W.D. Wash. (2020) October 2020 - March 2023
Motley Rice LLC and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP as Co-Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney’s fees issues - In re Twitter Inc. Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 4:16-cv-05314, N.D. Cal. (2022) August 2022 - November 2022
MDL Co-Lead Counsel Robin Greenwald of Weitz & Luxenberg, PC and Michael Miller of The Miller Firm, LLC Counsel Common benefit fees in complex mass tort MDL - In re Roundup Products Liability Litigation, The Miller Law Firm, LLC and Weitz & Luxenberg v. Laborde Earles Law Firm, et al., Case No. 21:16228, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2022) July 2021 - November 2022
Hon. Anita B. Brody & Hon. David R. Strawbridge, U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa. Other Appointed to co-mediate complex attorney's fees issues - In re National Football League Players’ Concussion Injury Litigation, MDL 2323, Civil Action No. 2:12-md-02323, E.D.Pa. (2022) June 2022 - September 2022
Labaton Sucharow LLP, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, and Scott + Scott Attorneys at Law LLP as Co-Lead Counsel in State Proceeding Expert / Consultant Competing class action issues - In re Lyft, Inc. Securities Litigation, 4:19-cv-02690, N.D. Cal. (2022); Lande, et al. v. Lyft, Inc., et al., Case No. CGC-19-575294, Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, Dept. 613 (2022) June 2022 - August 2022
Self Other Amicus curiae on propriety of incentive awards for class representatives in class action lawsuits - Johnson v. NPAS Solutions, Inc., Case No. 18-12344, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2020-), seeking en banc review of Johnson v. NPAS Sols., LLC, 975 F.3d 1244 (11th Cir. 2020) September 2020 - August 2022
Zelle LLP and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP on behalf of United Healthcare Services, Inc. Expert / Consultant Common benefit fee issues - In re Zetia (Ezetimibe) Antitrust Litigation, 2:18-md-02836, E.D. Va. (2022) June 2022 - July 2022
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Scott + Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, and Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP as Class Counsel in State Proceeding Expert / Consultant Competing class action issues - In re Micro Focus International PLC Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 1:18-cv-06763, S.D.N.Y. (2022); In re Microfocus International PLC Securities Litigation, Master File No. 18CIV01549, California Sup. Ct., San Mateo Cty. (2022) April 2022 - May 2022
Onder Law, LLC as Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - Americredit Financial Services, Inc., D/B/A GM Financial v. Bell, Case No. 15SL-AC24506-01, Twenty-First Judicial Circuit Court, St. Louis Cty., Missouri February 2022 - March 2022
Edelson PC on behalf of Objector Dennis Litteken Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - In re TikTok, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation, Civil Action No. 1:20-cv-04699, N.D. Ill. (2022) February 2022 - February 2022
Podhurst Orseck, P.A. as Lead Counsel for a group of consolidated cases Expert / Consultant Common benefit fee issues - In re Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting FTCA Litigation, Case No. 0:18-cv-62758, S.D. Fla. (2022) January 2022 - February 2022
Planned Parenthood Federation of America and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Expert / Consultant Class certification, notice, and other complex procedural issues - Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, et al., Civil Action No. 1:21-cv-00616, W.D. Tex. (2021) June 2021 - August 2021
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd as Co-Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney’s fees issues - City of Westland Police and Fire Retirement System v. MetLife Inc., Civil Action No. 1:12-cv-00256, S.D.N.Y. (2021) March 2021 - April 2021
Edelson PC, Labaton Sucharow LLP, and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd as Co-Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney’s fees issues - In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, Civil Action No. 3:15-cv-03747, N.D. Cal. (2020) June 2020 - February 2021
Hon. Richard M. Berman, U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. Other Appointed to mediate a set of complex issues in ongoing civil rights class action (Grottano v. City of New York, Civ. Action No. 15-cv-9242) May 2020 - January 2021
HLS Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinic on behalf of a nationwide class of students Expert / Consultant Complex class action issues in bankruptcy - In re: ITT Educational Services Inc., Case No. 16-07207-JMC-7A, Bank. S.D. Ind. (2019-) October 2019 - January 2021
MDL Co-Lead Counsel Robin Greenwald of Weitz & Luxenberg, PC; Michael Miller of The Miller Firm, LLC; and Aimee Wagstaff of Andrus Wagstaff, PC. Expert / Consultant Class action issues in complex mass tort MDL - In re Roundup Products Liability Litigation, Civil Action No. 3:16-md-02741, N.D. Cal. (2020) June 2020 - July 2020
Hon. Daniel A. Polster, U.S. District Court, N.D. Ohio Expert / Consultant Expert consultant to Court and Special Master on class action and attorney's fees issues, National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL 2804, Civ. Action No. 1:17-MD-2804, N.D. Ohio August 2018 - June 2020

Last Updated: July 08, 2024