Joseph R Saveri

Career

Joseph Saveri founded the Joseph Saveri Law Firm in 2012. Previously, he was a partner for 20 years at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, where he founded and built the firm’s Antitrust and Intellectual Property practice group and served as Managing Partner. Before then, he was an associate at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen.

Mr. Saveri focuses on antitrust and other complex civil and class action litigation, including commercial litigation, intellectual property, generative artificial intelligence, and qui tam and whistleblower actions. His cases have involved a wide range of industries, including financial services, computers, consumer electronics, manufacturing, agricultural products, and pharmaceuticals.

With 30 years of civil litigation experience, Mr. Saveri is one of America’s top antitrust lawyers. He has prosecuted and successfully resolved numerous antitrust class actions and other complex cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States. He has served as lead or co-lead counsel in cases challenging global price-fixing cartels, “reverse payment” agreements between pharmaceutical companies, “no-poach” agreements, and various monopolistic practices. Many of these cases have resulted in record recoveries and have established groundbreaking precedent. Since inception, he and his firm’s attorneys have generated over $4.7 billion in settlements and successful resolutions for their clients.

Mr. Saveri is a frequent author of articles on antitrust and complex litigation issues, and a frequent lecturer on a variety of matters, including antitrust, complex litigation, class action practice, and discovery. He is a frequent speaker on antitrust issues as well as complex litigation topics, including ediscovery and generative artificial intelligence. He has recently chaired and participated in class action-related panel discussions held by International Comparative Legal Guides. In 2019, he was a featured speaker at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s public roundtable to discuss the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement & Reform Act. He has participated in California Daily Journal/California Lawyer roundtables regarding class action and antitrust issues. He also serves as an author of California Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law, the legal treatise published by the State Bar of California’s Antitrust and Unfair Competition Section.

Mr. Saveri is on the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute. Other memberships include the American Bar Association (Antitrust Section) and the Bar Association of San Francisco. Mr. Saveri has served as a Lawyer Representative for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Saveri served and serves on several court committees charged with developing rules and programs regarding complex litigation, ediscovery, and a variety of other matters. He was chosen to serve as a member of the Northern District’s Civil Rules Advisory Committee, the committee to establish rules and procedures for expedited trials (which the Court adopted as General Order No. 64, “Expedited Trial Procedures”), and the committee which crafted new ediscovery rules and procedures recently adopted by the Court.

Mr. Saveri and his firm have received numerous accolades from multiple entities, including:

• American Antitrust Institute: Honoree—“Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice” (2023, 2017); Finalist—“Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice” (2015) (both awards given to the Joseph Saveri Law Firm);

• Benchmark Litigation: Ranked as "National Practice Area Star" and "Local Litigation Star;" firm recognized as one of the best in California in "Competition/Antitrust" and "Dispute Resolution" practice areas (2020-present);

• Best Lawyers: Best Lawyers in America (2012-present); Best Lawyers—Best Law Firms publication (2013-present);

• Business Today: "Top Influential Antitrust Plaintiffs Shaping U.S. Law: Nation's Legal Titans" (2023);

• California Daily Journal: “Top 100 Lawyers in California” (2016, 2018-2019, 2021-present); “Top Plaintiff Lawyers” in California (2018-present); "Top Antitrust Lawyers in California" (2020, 2022-present); CLAY Award—California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (2016, 2022); “Top Boutiques” in California (2016, 2018, 2021); "Leading Commercial Litigators" (2023-present);

• Chambers USA: “Band 1” (top-ranked) plaintiffs’ antitrust attorney for California and nationwide (2014-present);

• Global Competition Review: GCR 100 listing of the world's top competition practices (2020-present); Lawyer of the Year (shortlisted) (2022); Litigation of the Year — Cartel Prosecution (shortlisted) 2022;

• Lawdragon: 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2022-present); 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers (2019-present); 500 Leading Litigators in America (2023); 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisors (2024); 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2024)

• Law360: Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar (2014); Practice Group of the Year — Class Action and Competition (2023);

• The Legal 500: Firm ranked in “United States Antitrust Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff” category (2019-present); Leading Lawyer — "United States Antitrust Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff" category (2021-present);

• Martindale-Hubbell: AV Preeminent rating—Top Rated Lawyers (2008-present);

• National Law Journal: Finalist - Elite Law Firm Trial Lawyers of the Year Award ("Class Action" and "Antitrust" categories) (2019, 2023); Trailblazers — Mergers & Acquisitions and Antitrust (2015);

• Super Lawyers: Super Lawyers Northern California—Antitrust Litigation (2006-present); Super Lawyers Top 100 Northern California (2015-2016, 2019-present); and

• Who’s Who Legal: Selected to and profiled in Who’s Who Legal’s Thought Leaders: Competition publication (2019-present); one of the top plaintiffs’ attorneys worldwide via Who’s Who Legal: Competition, publication of Who’s Who Legal and Global Competition Review (2015-present).

EDUCATION

University of Virginia Law School, J.D.

University of California, Berkeley, B.A. History and Economics (double major), with Honors