Vassi Iliadis
Partner Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
Los Angeles
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Vassi Iliadis is one of the firm's lead California litigators when complex matters of data privacy and protection result in class action litigation and regulatory enforcement.
A dynamic and pragmatic problem solver, Vassi has significant experience litigating large-scale consumer class actions and multijurisdictional suits from inception through resolution arising out of some of the most highly publicized data breaches and state-sponsored cyberattacks on record.
In addition to litigating these matters, Vassi guides organizations in the technology, financial, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries in coordinating incident response, managing forensic investigations (including advising on issues of attorney-client privilege), responding to government inquiries and investigations, and leading highly sensitive internal investigations when an unexpected crisis arises impacting an organization’s data privacy and cybersecurity.
Vassi also has deep experience litigating a broad range of commercial disputes, including health care contracts, insurance coverage issues, product defect issues, and the enforcement of arbitration agreements.
Representative experience
Lead counsel in dozens of online consumer privacy class actions and mass arbitrations arising out of the use of web tracking technologies on behalf of multiple Fortune 150 companies.
Lead counsel on behalf of Disney and ESPN in CIPA class action filed in the Northern District of California arising out of the use of the BlueKai pixel.
Lead counsel on behalf of UEFA in a VPPA class action filed in the Northern District of California arising out of the use of the Meta Pixel.
Lead counsel on behalf of ClassPass in a VPPA class action filed in the Southern District of New York arising out of the use of the Meta Pixel.
Lead counsel on behalf of IBM in a case involving the Pennsylvania wiretapping statute and VPPA filed in the Southern District of New York arising out of the use of analytics technologies.
Lead California counsel in the Uber Data Breach MDL, successfully winning early motions to dismiss and motions to compel arbitration of every one of the MDL's underlying complaints.
Lead counsel for global social media and video streaming service based in California in three FTC investigations related to consumer privacy and platform safety.
Credentials
- J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2013
- B.A., University of Southern California, magna cum laude, 2010
- California
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California