Joseph R. Saveri

As the principal and founder of the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP, located in San Francisco and New York City, Joseph R. Saveri has 30 years of civil litigation experience in state, federal, and international arenas. He has handled cases involving numerous industries, including banking and financial services, insurance, energy, pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, computer hardware, computer software, manufacturing inputs, travel and transportation, paper products, cosmetics, consumer electronics, and sports. He has established himself as one of the country’s top litigators in the antitrust field.

Mr. Saveri began his career doing general litigation work at the San Francisco law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen. In 1992, he joined the plaintiffs’ firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, where he served as the firm’s Managing Partner. He also founded and chaired the firm’s Antitrust and Intellectual Property practice group, which was recognized as one of the top five practice groups in California. He left Lieff Cabraser in May of 2012 to form the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP.

Mr. Saveri has investigated, prosecuted, and successfully resolved numerous antitrust class actions and other complex cases. He has served both as a court-appointed leader of such efforts and as a valued member of the teams operating under the leadership of others. As lead or co-lead counsel in many of these cases, he has taken a personal leadership role in organizing litigation, setting strategy, establishing and directing teams of lawyers, and assigning specific tasks to teams of attorneys in a way that ensures the efficient use of resources and maximizes the talents of the litigation team. Throughout these cases, he has displayed the energy, vision, and commitment that leadership requires, combined with the ability to listen, share, and work cooperatively so that the litigation team operates equitably, efficiently, and without friction. He serves or has served as lead counsel in many cases, including most recently the high-profile Capacitors, Titanium Dioxide, High-Tech Employees, and California Cipro litigations.

Mr. Saveri has performed virtually every aspect of complex and class action litigation, including factual and economic analysis of market conditions and pricing practices, drafting of pleadings, administering law and motion matters, organizing electronic discovery, creating discovery plans, directing on-line review of documents requiring coordination of dozens of lawyers fluent in English and foreign languages, propounding written discovery, taking and defending percipient and expert witness depositions, organizing factual records, briefing and arguing summary judgment, and managing trial and appellate work.

From 2010 through 2013, Mr. Saveri was chosen to serve as a Lawyer Representative for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has served and serves on a number of 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 is also a frequent author of articles on antitrust and complex litigation issues, and a lecturer on a variety of matters, including antitrust, complex litigation, class action practice, and discovery. He 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. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute and is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. 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 also spoke at the University of Haifa’s (Israel) 3rd International Conference: Dispute Resolution of Consumer Mass Disputes, Collective Redress, Class Action, and ADR.

Mr. Saveri received his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1987. He received his B.A. in History and Economics (double major), with Honors, in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley.