Zeke Wald

Zeke Wald

Associate (he/him)

zsw@classlawgroup.com
510-340-4285
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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.  

admissions
  • California
awards+

California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award, Daily Journal, 2023

education+
  • J.D., University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Law, 2021
  • B.A., highest honors, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2016
memberships+
  • American Association for Justice
Presentations & Articles+

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 Efficient Administration of Elections: How Competing Economic Principles Have Overtaken the Law of Democracy

The Law and Political Economy Society at Berkeley Law Blog

November 17, 2019

Litigation Highlights

Brooks v. Thomson Reuters Corporation

Zeke is court-appointed class counsel in this data privacy case against Thomson Reuters for its CLEAR product. The lawsuit alleged that Thomson Reuters collected millions of California residents’ personal and confidential information and then sold access to it without their knowledge or consent. After the court granted plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, the parties reached a class settlement for $27.5 million and substantial injunctive relief. The court granted final approval of the settlement on February 21, 2025.

San Diego and Otay Water District Tiered Water Rates Lawsuits

Key member of the litigation team achieving a $79.5 million verdict on behalf of single-family customers in a lawsuit charging the City of San Diego with setting water rates that are noncompliant with the California Constitution. Zeke was a member of the trial team at the remedies stage and is part of the appellate team defending the Court's judgment in favor of the class. The case is currently on appeal.

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.

3M Combat Arms Earplug Products Liability Litigation

This multi-district litigation concerns allegations that 3M’s dual-ended Combat Arms earplugs were defective and caused servicemembers and civilians to develop hearing loss or tinnitus. Zeke is a member of the team supporting the Law, Briefing, and Legal Drafting Committee.

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