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

    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.