Heather P. Haggarty represents consumers, investors and individuals in class actions and other complex litigation, holding companies and institutions accountable when they engage in misconduct. Over her legal career, Heather has litigated a wide range of commercial cases involving securities fraud, trademark, copyright, product liability, patent infringement and white-collar crimes. She also has experience in internal corporate investigations.
Most
recently, Heather has aided in the litigation of In Re EpiPen
(Epinephrine Injection, USP) Marketing, Sales Practices and Antitrust
Litigation (a class action alleging that the seller and manufacturer of
the life-saving EpiPen engaged in anticompetitive practices in an unlawful
scheme to sharply increase the price of the device); In re NCAA
Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation (a class action on behalf of a
nationwide class of college athletes challenging NCAA-imposed caps on athletic
scholarships); and In Re Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Products Liability
Litig. (a multi-district on behalf of injured firefighters exposed to PFAS
chemicals).
Prior to joining Pritzker Levine, Heather worked at Bullivant Houser Bailey PC in San Francisco and Dorsey & Whitney, LLP in New York. Heather has served as a volunteer attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and with Public Justice in Oakland, California. She has also done volunteer work for Public Advocates in San Francisco.
- Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
- Scripps College, B.A.
- California
- New York
- United States District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California and the Southern District of New York
- California Lawyers Association
- New York State Bar Association
- Co-author, “California Online Privacy Laws: The Battle for Personal Data,” Competition – The Journal of the Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section of the State Bar of California (2016)
- Co-author, “Rule 23(b)(3)(F): Closing the Doors of the Courthouse,” published in the Common Good, Fordham Law School (1999)
- Co-author, “Court Permits Differential Treatment Based on Native American Sovereignty,” New York Law Journal (1998)
- Co-author, “Defamation, Internet Providers, and Publisher Liability: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?,” NY State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Journal (1998)
- Co-author, “The Media and the Attorneys’ Absolute Privilege to Defame: Undermining or Preserving the Integrity of the Judicial Process?,” NY State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Journal (1997)