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
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, PLLC as Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees - Loop LLC v. CDK Global, LLC, Civil Action No. 3:24-cv-00571, W.D. Wisc. (2025) May 2025 - ongoing
ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project on behalf of various putative and certified classes Expert / Consultant Class action issues - various cases challenging immigration policies of the United States government March 2025 - ongoing
Law Office of Robert C. Sanders on behalf of a putative class of gas royalty owners Expert / Consultant Class certification issues - Gateway Royalty LLC et al v. EAP Ohio LLC et al, Case No. 5:20-cv-02813, N.D. Ohio (2024-2025) October 2024 - ongoing
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP as Lead (Class) Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees issues - In re Zoom Securities Litigation, Case No. 3:20-cv-02353-JD, N.D. Cal. (2023- ) October 2023 - ongoing
A corporation and its counsel Expert / Consultant Complex attorney’s fees issues 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
Self and Professor Arthur R. Miller Other Amicus curiae in support of neither party on issues of standing in class action lawsuits - Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis, 24-304, U.S. Supreme Court (2025) March 2025 - June 2025
A law firm Expert / Consultant Class action and attorney's fees issues in a series of related cases pending throughout the United States June 2024 - May 2025
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP Expert / Consultant Ethics Issues - In Re Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation (MDL 2406), Case No. 2:13-cv-20000, N.D. Ala. (2025) January 2025 - February 2025
Arias Sanguineti for the Individual Action Plaintiffs Coordinating Committee Expert / Consultant Class Action Issues - In re Maui Wildfires, Case No. 2CSP-23-0000057, Second Circuit Court, State of Hawai‘i December 2024 - January 2025
Susman Godfrey LLP Expert / Consultant Reverse auction/competing class action issues - Glover v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company et al., Case No. 3:16-cv-00827, D. Conn. (2024) December 2024 - December 2024
Elizabeth J. Cabraser of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP and Paul J. Geller of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, as Co-Lead Class Counsel for the Third Party Payors Settlement Class Expert / Consultant Ethics issues - In re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation, Third Party Payor Settlement, MDL 2804, Civil Action No. 1:17-md-02804-DAP, N.D. Ohio (2024) November 2024 - December 2024
Bryant Law Center, P.S.C.; Davis, Johnston, & Ringger, PC; Fayard & Honeycutt; Strauss Troy Co., LPA; and Shillen, Mackall, Seldon & Spicer Counsel Class action settlement and attorney's fees/common benefit fees issues - In re: East Palestine Train Derailment, Case No. 4:32-cv-00242-BYP, N.D. Ohio (2024) August 2024 - November 2024
JRC Legal, McGuire Law, P.C., Underwood and Riemer, PC, Bock, Hatch, Lewis & Oppenheim, LLC, Mark K. Wasvary, P.C., Kent Law Offices, and McMorrow Law, P.C., as Settlement Class Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees issues - Drazen v. GoDaddy.com, LLC, Case No. 1:19-cv-00563, S.D. Ala. (2024) October 2024 - October 2024
Elizabeth J. Cabraser of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP and Paul J. Geller of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, as Co-Lead Class Counsel for the Third Party Payors Settlement Class Expert / Consultant Export report on history, structure, and equity of settlement allocation provisions - In re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation, Third Party Payor Settlement, MDL 2804, Civ. Action No. 1:17-md-02804-DAP, N.D. Ohio (2024) August 2024 - October 2024
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 - August 2024
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP at Lead (Class) Counsel Expert / Consultant Attorney's fees issues - In re Apple Securities Litigation, No. 4:19-cv-02033-YGR, N.D. Cal. (2024) May 2024 - July 2024
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
A law firm Expert / Consultant Class action and attorney's fees issues - In re Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2:18-mn-2873-RMG (2023-2024) July 2023 - 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
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
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 25, 2025