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FIRM RESUME OF ISRAEL DAVID LLC

Established in 2022, Israel David LLC is a growing and diverse high-end litigation boutique 

focused exclusively on class action lawsuits and complex commercial litigation.

Israel David LLC represents litigants in both the prosecution and defense of class action lawsuits 

and commercial litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Israel David 

LLC is comprised of seasoned litigators with extensive experience in antitrust class actions, online 

and data privacy class actions, securities and shareholder litigation, consumer class actions, and 

commercial and business litigation.

Our principal partners have over 40 years of combined experience litigating high-stakes class 

action lawsuits at some of the most prestigious law firms in the world, including over 20 years 

combined experience as prominent partners at those firms. Our litigation approach is lean and 

efficient, centered on results.

In January 2023, the Honorable Judge Ann M. Donnelly of the United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of New York appointed Israel David LLC as Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in the 

high-profile antitrust class action lawsuit challenging the so-called Northeast Alliance entered into 

by American Airlines and JetBlue Airlines. In re American Airlines/JetBlue Antitrust Litigation

(22-cv-07374-AMD-TAM).

Israel David LLC’s attorneys have a deep reservoir of experience and knowledge regarding abusive 

online and data privacy practices. In July 2023, the Honorable Judge Kandis A. Westmore of the 

United States District Court for the Northern District of California appointed Israel David LLC as 

Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in a data privacy class action lawsuit involving a data security incident 

that compromised the private data of over 200 million Twitter users. Gerber v. Twitter, Inc., et al. (23-

cv-00186-KAW). 

In July 2023, the Honorable Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the United States District Court for the 

Southern District of New York appointed Israel David LLC as Interim Lead Class Counsel in a data 

privacy class action lawsuit involving a data security incident at The Metropolitan Opera in New York 

City. Tuteur v. Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (23-cv-03997-GS). 

In July, 2023, the Honorable Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin of the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California appointed Israel David LLC to the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in 

a data privacy class action lawsuit arising out of the illicit sharing with Google and Facebook of 

sensitive private health information of unsuspecting consumers by an online healthcare provider. Doe 

v. GoodRx Holdings, Inc, et al. (23-cv-00501-AMO).

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Israel David LLC has an active docket of class action lawsuits in which the firm is seeking to

vindicate the rights of consumers whose online and data privacy rights have been abused. In the 

securities and shareholder litigation arena, Israel David LLC offers broad and deep experience.

Our founding partner has earned national acclaim for successfully leading the defense of some of

the largest and most high-profile securities and shareholder lawsuits in U.S. history.

Israel David LLC has its offices in the Financial District of New York City.

ADAM HARRIS – MANAGING PARTNER

Adam Harris has over 15 years of experience in representing companies, financial institutions, 

boards of directors, senior management, and other sophisticated clients in a broad array of 

commercial and corporate disputes – with an emphasis on representing plaintiffs and defendants 

in securities class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits, complex business litigation, and 

corporate governance disputes. He has successfully litigated numerous high-stakes lawsuits at the 

trial court and appellate levels in federal and state courts throughout the United States, and in 

domestic and international arbitration proceedings. Mr. Harris has earned national acclaim as a 

dynamic courtroom advocate and a thoughtful, creative strategist. Mr. Harris is frequently sought 

out for his deep experience and thought leadership in complex commercial litigation, securities 

litigation and class action litigation. Mr. Harris is a prolific author and commentator on litigation 

issues.

Prior to joining Israel David LLC as Managing Partner, Mr. Harris was a partner from 2019 to 

2023 at the elite international law firm Ropes & Gray LLP and was an associate and then counsel 

at that firm from 2016 to 2019. Previously, Mr. Harris was an associate at the elite international 

law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP from 2007 through 2015.

ISRAEL DAVID – PARTNER

Israel David – a prolific class action litigator – has more than 25 years of experience in representing 

corporations, boards of directors, and senior corporate management in a wide array of corporate 

and commercial disputes, with an emphasis on securities and shareholder class actions, derivative 

lawsuits, privacy class actions, antitrust class actions, along with other complex business disputes.

He has litigated numerous “bet-the-company” cases at the trial court and appellate levels in federal 

and state courts throughout the US, and in domestic and international arbitration proceedings.

Mr. David has earned national acclaim for having successfully represented clients in some of the 

largest and most high-profile securities and shareholder lawsuits in the last quarter century.

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Among numerous other class action lawsuits nationwide, these include:

• Leading the representation of the President of Lehman Brothers in numerous lawsuits 

nationwide – including the consolidated class action securities lawsuit in the Southern 

District of New York – arising out of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, likely the largest 

corporate financial collapse in U.S. history.

• Co-leading the representation of Wells Fargo & Company, its predecessor Wachovia 

Corporation, and Wachovia’s senior-most officers and directors in the consolidated class 

action securities lawsuit in the Southern District of New York arising out of the financial 

collapse of Wachovia. The lawsuit (which alleged losses of $109 billion) is considered to 

be one of the largest class action securities lawsuits in U.S. history to have obtained a 

complete dismissal with prejudice.

• Co-leading the representation of all of the underwriters of the General Motors Company 

2010 IPO – the then-largest IPO in U.S. history – in a class action securities lawsuit in the 

Southern District of New York.

• Co-leading the representation of eight globally leading banks in a class action securities 

lawsuit in the Southern District of New York involving the issuance of approximately

$26 billion of Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities.

• Leading the representation of two members of the Board of Directors of The Weinstein 

Company in the high-profile sexual-assault class action lawsuit in the Southern District of 

New York, arising out of the well-publicized claims of sexual assault allegedly committed 

by that company’s CEO.

Currently, Mr. David serves as court-appointed Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in an antitrust class 

action lawsuit involving American Airlines and JetBlue pending in the Eastern District of New 

York. Mr. David also serves as court-appointed Interim Lead Class Counsel and Interim Co-Lead 

Class Counsel, respectively, in data privacy class action lawsuits pending in the Southern District 

of New York and the Northern District of California. 

Prior to founding Israel David LLC, Mr. David was a prominent partner from 2005 to 2022 at the 

elite international law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and was an associate 

at that firm from 1996 to 2005. Mr. David has also served as trusted advisor to some of the world’s 

largest private equity and hedge funds, providing counsel on matters in relation to fiduciary duties, 

disclosure matters, and various sensitive issues faced by fund sponsors and general partners.

HAYLEY LOWE – SPECIAL COUNSEL

Hayley Lowe is an accomplished litigator with a decade of experience litigating high- stakes 

complex business disputes in federal and state courts and arbitral forums nationwide. Ms. Lowe 

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has successfully represented clients across a wide array of industries in lawsuits arising from a 

broad range of commercial transactions, with an emphasis on the financial services sector and 

complex investment transactions. She has also litigated matters concerning intellectual property

rights, fiduciary duties, fraud claims, antitrust claims, and the federal securities laws. Ms. 

Lowe has also been entrusted by fund managers, boards of directors, and executives to advise 

companies regarding risk assessment and mitigation related to corporate governance, fiduciary 

duties, proposed transactions, and compliance matters, including with respect to the Investment 

Company Act of 1940.

Ms. Lowe previously practiced as a senior associate at the elite Texas litigation boutique, 

Loewinsohn Flegle Deary Simon LLP (now known as Deary Ray LLP) – which was named by the

National Law Journal as the best U.S. law firm for business torts during her tenure there. Ms. 

Lowe also previously practiced at a prominent New York litigation boutique. Ms. Lowe also 

served as Principal Court Attorney to the Honorable Marcy S. Friedman (Ret.) of the New York 

State Supreme Court – New York County, Commercial Division. In that role, Ms. Lowe worked 

closely with Justice Friedman on all aspects of the largest and most complex matters before the 

Court, including the consolidated residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) litigation docket 

assigned to Justice Friedman. Immediately prior to joining Israel David LLC, Ms. Lowe served 

as in-house counsel for an investment fund.

Ms. Lowe received her Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law in 2013.

While in law school, Ms. Lowe served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Andrea Masley of the 

New York State Supreme Court – New York County, Commercial Division. Prior to and 

concurrent with her first year of law school, Ms. Lowe worked as an analyst for a financial firm 

dedicated to advising Chinese middle-market companies raising capital in the U.S.

Ms. Lowe earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 

2009. During her undergraduate studies, she also completed the International Program in 

Management at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil.

ANDREW CAUCHI – SPECIAL COUNSEL

Andrew Cauchi has nearly a decade of experience in representing corporations, senior executives 

and boards of directors in high-stakes class action securities lawsuits, shareholder lawsuits,

corporate takeover litigation, and complex business disputes in federal and state courts throughout 

the United States. Mr. Cauchi also has extensive experience conducting internal investigations on 

behalf of boards and audit committees, and representing corporations and individuals in 

governmental and regulatory investigations. 

Prior to joining Israel David LLC in February 2024, Mr. Cauchi was Counsel at the elite 

international law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and was an associate at that firm from 

2015 to 2022. Mr. Cauchi received his Juris Doctor degree from St. John’s University School of 

Law in 2015, where he was a member of the St. John’s Law Review. Mr. Cauchi earned his 

Bachelor of Arts degree from Lehigh University in 2012.

BLAKE YAGMAN – SPECIAL COUNSEL

Blake Hunter Yagman is a dynamic courtroom advocate who concentrates his practice on litigating 

high-value antitrust, data-privacy and consumer class action lawsuits in federal and state trial 

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courts nationwide. Mr. Yagman also has substantial experience in representing plaintiffs and 

defendants in high-stakes business disputes. Prior to joining Israel David LLC, Mr. Yagman was 

an associate at a leading global law firm that specializes in prosecuting class action lawsuits 

worldwide, including some of the most prominent antitrust cases of the last half decade. Mr. 

Yagman played a leadership role at that firm in developing and successfully prosecuting an array 

of high-profile antitrust and data-privacy class action lawsuits. As a rising national star in in the 

antitrust and data-privacy arena, Mr. Yagman was named to the “Top 40 Under 40” rankings for 

civil plaintiffs’ litigation by the National Trial Lawyers organization.

Mr. Yagman has extensive data privacy and data breach litigation experience, having worked on 

dozens of high-profile data breach cases. Some of Mr. Yagman’s high profile data privacy cases 

include representing Illinois residents in biometric collection litigation against a major social 

media company (Boone, et al. v Snap Inc. – settled for $35,000,000) and against a software 

company that collected biometric information from students using an exam proctoring system 

(Veiga, et al. v. Respondus, Inc. – currently in publicly-disclosed settlement negotiations). Mr. 

Yagman’s data privacy experience also includes cases with unique factual circumstances, 

including a data breach of a third-party that resulted in the theft of cryptocurrency from digital 

wallets (Levinson v. Intuit, Inc., et al. – settled), a data breach that resulted in the shutdown of the 

largest gasoline pipeline on the east coast of the United States (Dickerson v. CDPQ Colonial 

Partners, L.P., et al.), and an on-going data privacy case against a pharmaceutical discounting 

website which sold consumer information to social media and advertising companies (E.C. v. 

Criteo Corp., et al.).

Mr. Yagman received his Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 

2017, where he was named an Intellectual Property and Data Law Fellow. He earned his Bachelor 

of Arts degree from the University of Miami in 2014, where he was named to the Provost’s Honor 

Roll and served as the Student Government Senate’s Chair of the Policy and Finance Committee.

Mr. Yagman is currently an active member of New York City’s oldest LGBTQIA+ bar association.

MADELINE SHEFFIELD – ASSOCIATE

Madeline Sheffield is an accomplished trial lawyer who has successfully led and first-chaired jury 

trials to verdict. Prior to joining Israel David LLC, Ms. Sheffield served with distinction as an 

Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office from October 2020 to 

November 2022. Ms. Sheffield concentrates her practice on representing plaintiffs and defendants 

in high-stakes business disputes and class action lawsuits in federal and state courts nationwide.

Ms. Sheffield received her Juris Doctor degree cum laude from Syracuse University College of 

Law in 2020, where she served as Executive Editor of the Syracuse Law Review. While in law

school, Ms. Sheffield was also named as a member of the Advocacy Honor Society. Ms. Sheffield

earned her Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from the University of Buffalo in 2017.

AARON HINDS – ASSOCIATE

Aaron Hinds concentrates his practice on representing plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes 

class action lawsuits and business disputes in federal and state courts nationwide. He received his

Juris Doctor degree from Boston University School of Law in 2023, where he served as Executive 

Editor of the Boston University School of Law Review of Banking and Financial Law. Mr. 

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Hinds earned his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from the University of Denver in 2018.

MARK KAHN – FINANCIAL ANALYST

Mark Kahn is a financial analyst at Israel David LLC. Mr. Kahn supports the Firm’s securities 

and shareholder litigation practices, assisting Firm attorneys with case assessment, development, 

and research. Mr. Kahn also conducts investigations into potential federal and state securities laws 

violations. Mr. Kahn comes to the Firm with significant experience in the financial sector, having 

previously worked for several hedge funds in investment and capital-raising capacities.

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