Zeke Wald
Zeke is dedicated to representing plaintiffs in class action and complex litigation concerning consumers’ and workers’ rights, products liability, privacy law, and constitutional law. In 2023, he won the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award, which recognizes outstanding California lawyers “whose extraordinary work and cases had a major impact on the law.”
Zeke graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2021, where he was an Articles editor for the California Law Review, a research assistant for Professor Sean Farhang’s work on complex litigation, and an advocate with the East Bay Community Law Center’s Community Economic Justice clinic. Zeke also co-founded the Law and Political Economy society, which focuses on bringing students deeper into critical legal theory, and served as a leader of Berkeley’s Gun Violence Prevention Project, an organization that supported the Giffords Law Center and the Brady Center’s national, state, and local litigation efforts and policy advocacy on behalf of survivors of gun violence.
Zeke received his undergraduate dual degrees in Economics and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara with highest honors. Prior to law school, Zeke worked for a tech startup dedicated to providing consumers with access to objective, unbiased information about products and services, and as a legal secretary at a family law firm focusing on complex parentage and custody cases and assisted reproduction law.
California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award, Daily Journal, 2023
- J.D., University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Law, 2021
- B.A., highest honors, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2016
- American Association for Justice
Election Law’s Efficiency-Convergence Dilemma
Available at SSRN
October 2, 2020
Driving in the Rearview: Looking Forward by Looking Back
The Law and Political Economy Society at Berkeley Law Blog
March 30, 2020
The Law and Political Economy Society at Berkeley Law Blog
November 17, 2019
Litigation Highlights
San Diego and Otay Water District Tiered Water Rates Lawsuits
Key member of the litigation team achieving a $24 million verdict on behalf of single-family residential customers in a lawsuit challenging the Otay Water District with setting unconstitutional water rates. The case is currently on appeal.