Bio

Jordan Elias has pursued civil claims against oil and tobacco companies, price-fixing cartels, pharmaceutical companies and the nation’s largest banks. Jordan argued the first substantive motion in the digital advertising monopoly litigation against Google. He was the primary author of the plaintiffs’ briefs in the California Supreme Court in the Cipro “pay-for-delay” antitrust case, and led the appeal in In re U.S. Office of Personnel Management Data Security Breach Litigation, 928 F.3d 42 (D.C. Cir. 2019), where the court reversed the dismissal of a case brought on behalf of 22 million federal government employees and job applicants whose sensitive private information was hacked. Federal judges have described his advocacy as “very thorough” and “clearly in the public interest.” Jordan has been recognized by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. A former chief arbitrator for the San Francisco Bar Association’s attorney fee disputes program, he received a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) award in 2016 and has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer, Appellate, since 2014. Jordan’s writing and expertise are not limited to case work. He authored the Supreme Court chapter, and co-authored the Ninth Circuit chapter, in the American Bar Association’s authoritative Survey of Federal Class Action Law. For several years he has been responsible for the chapter on antitrust standing, causation, and remedies in California State Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law (Matthew Bender). Jordan also co-authored the chapter on CAFA exceptions in both the 2013 and 2022 editions of The Class Action Fairness Act: Law and Strategy, an ABA book. Jordan’s law review articles include The Multistate Problem in Consumer Class Actions and Three Solutions, 17 Harvard Law & Policy Rev. 101 (2023), Course Correction—Data Breach as Invasion of Privacy, 69 Baylor L. Rev. 574 (2018), and “More Than Tangential”: When Does the Public Have a Right to Access Judicial Records?, 29 Journal of Law & Policy 367 (2021). His bar journal articles include “Antitrust Restoration from California Anchored by a New Monopolization Synthesis,” Vol. 33 No. 1 Competition: J. Anti. & Unfair Comp. L. Sec. St. B. Cal 34 (Spring/Summer 2023), “Does Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court Apply to Class Actions?” ABA Section of Litigation, Class Actions & Derivative Suits (Feb. 25, 2020) (co-author), “Tilting at Windmills: Nationwide Class Settlements after In re Hyundai and Kia Fuel Economy Litigation,” ABA Section of Litigation, Class Actions & Derivative Suits (Feb. 28, 2018) (co-author), and Putting Cipro Meat on Actavis Bones, Vol. 24 No. 2 Competition: J. Anti. & Unfair Comp. L. Sec. St. B. Cal. 1 (2015). He has filed friend-of-the-court briefs representing legal scholars, the American Independent Business Alliance, and the League of Women Voters. In 2017 he was elected to the American Law Institute. Jordan is a native Californian who attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. After earning his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he served on the law review, Jordan clerked for the late Ninth Circuit Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall. At Yale College he was an all-Ivy League sprinter and received the Field Prize for best dissertation or senior thesis in the humanities.