Joseph R. Saveri

Top rated Antitrust Litigation attorney in San Francisco, California

Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP
Joseph R. Saveri
Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP

Practice Areas: Antitrust Litigation, Class Action & Mass Torts, General Litigation

Licensed in California since: 1987

Education: University of Virginia School of Law

Selected to Super Lawyers: 2006 - 2024

Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP

601 California St.
Suite 1505
San Francisco, CA 94108 Visit website

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Joseph R. Saveri specializes in antitrust law and complex civil and class action litigation in state, federal, and international arenas. With 30 years of civil litigation experience, he has handled cases involving numerous industries, including: banking and financial services, insurance, energy, pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, computer hardware, computer software, travel and transportation, paper products, cosmetics, and consumer electronics. He is one of the country's top litigators in the antitrust field, representing individuals, consumers, small business owners, public officials, and heads of corporations negatively affected by monopolistic business practices.

Joe has a well-established track record in the fields of antitrust law and complex litigation. In 1987, he started 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 (LCHB), where he established and was the Managing Partner of the firm’s antitrust and intellectual property practice, which in 2012 was recognized as one of the top five practice groups in California.

During 20 years at LCHB, he handled numerous groundbreaking and landmark cases. This included litigation against Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe Systems, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and other tech companies for illegally agreeing not to poach each other’s employees; a class action representing direct purchasers in price-fixing claims against thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display manufacturers; a class action lawsuit on behalf of consumers and others against Bayer for exclusionary drug pricing agreements involving the generic version of the drug Cipro; and another landmark class action against diamond company De Beers SA for monopolizing the rough diamond trade. He also served as lead counsel in other state and federal trials involving brand-name prescription drug price-fixing and the pharmaceutical industry.

Joe continues this high-profile work at the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, which he founded in May 2012 to provide the highest quality legal work to clients throughout the United States. Since inception, courts across the United States have appointed him and the firm to leadership positions in important antitrust cases, class actions, and other complex litigation.

Joe is a frequent author of articles on antitrust and complex litigation issues, and lectures on a variety of matters, including antitrust, complex litigation, class action practice, generative artificial intelligence, and discovery. 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. He is on the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute. 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

From 2010 through 2013, Joe served as a Lawyer Representative for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He continues to serve on several court committees charged with developing rules and programs regarding complex litigation, e-discovery, and a variety of other matters. He was chosen to serve as a member of the Northern District’s Civil Rules Advisory Committee from 2009-2012, 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 e-discovery rules and procedures recently adopted by the Court.

Joe is a member of the American Bar Association (Antitrust Section), the Bar Association of San Francisco, and the Italian Lawyers Club of San Francisco.

Practice areas

Antitrust Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts: Plaintiff, General Litigation
  • 60% Antitrust Litigation
  • 30% Class Action/Mass Torts: Plaintiff
  • 10% General Litigation

First Admitted: 1987, California

Professional Webpage: https://saverilawfirm.com/attorneys/joseph-r-saveri/

Bar/Professional Activity:
  • State Bar of California
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – 1st Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – 2nd Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – 4th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – 5th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – 7th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – 8th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – 9th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals – 11th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court – Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court – Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court – Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court – Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court – Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • American Antitrust Institute (Advisory Board)
  • American Bar Association (Antitrust Section)
  • Bar Association of San Francisco
  • California Lawyers Association
  • Italian Lawyers Club of San Francisco
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Honors/Awards:
  • American Antitrust Institute: Honoree—Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice (2017, 2023); Finalist—Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice (2015) (both awards given to the firm), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/american-antitrust-institute-honors-joseph-saveri-law-firm-llp-with-2023-antitrust-enforcement-award
  • Benchmark Litigation: Ranked as “National Practice Area Star” and “Local Litigation Star” in competition/antitrust practice area (2020-present); firm recognized as one of the best in California in "Competition/Antitrust" and "Dispute Resolution" practice areas (2020-present), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-law-firm-highly-ranked-by-benchmark-litigation-2024
  • Best Lawyers: Best Lawyers in America (2012-present); U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers—Best Law Firms (2013-present), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/five-joseph-saveri-law-firm-llp-attorneys-honored-by-best-lawyers
  • Business Today: “Top 10 Influential Antitrust Plaintiffs Shaping U.S. Law: Nation’s Legal Titans” (2023), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/business-today-names-joseph-saveri-and-steven-williams-top-10-influential-antitrust-plaintiffs-shaping-u.s.-law
  • 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 in California (2023-present); Top Artificial Intelligence Lawyers (2024), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-selected-by-california-daily-journal-as-2024-top-100-lawyer-in-california
  • Chambers USA: Band 1 (top-ranked) attorney for “Antitrust: Plaintiff—USA—Nationwide” and “Antitrust: Mainly Plaintiff—California” (2014-present); Band 1 firm for “Antitrust: Mainly Plaintiff—California” (2020-present) (one of two in California to receive this honor); firm ranked as one of the top 13 U.S. firms for "Antitrust: Mainly Plaintiff-Nationwide" (2021-present), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-law-firm-achieves-top-2024-rankings-by-chambers-and-partners
  • 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 (In re Capacitors Antitrust Litigation) (shortlisted) (2022), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-honored-in-whos-who-legals-thought-leaders-competition-2023-0
  • Law360: Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar (2014); Practice Group of the Year—Class Action and Competition (2023), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-law-firm-selected-as-law360-practice-group-of-the-year-competition-and-class-action
  • Lawdragon: 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2022-present); 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America (2019-present); 500 Leading Litigators in America (2023); 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisors (2024), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-ronnie-spiegel-cadio-zirpoli-named-2025-lawdragon-500-leading-litigators-in-america
  • Legal 500: Firm ranked one of the top 10 firms nationwide in “United States Antitrust Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff” category (2019-present); ranked as one of its “Leading Lawyers” in the same category (2020-present), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-law-firm-llp-highly-ranked-by-the-legal-500-for-2024
  • Martindale-Hubbell: AV Preeminent rating—Top Rated Lawyers (2008-present)
  • National Law Journal: Finalist— Elite Law Firm Trial Lawyers of the Year Award - Plaintiff Attorney of the Year (2024), antitrust category (2024), class action category (2023), antitrust category (2019); Trailblazers—Mergers & Acquisitions and Antitrust (2015), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-law-firm-and-joseph-saveri-named-finalists-for-national-law-journals-2024-elite-trial-lawyers-awards
  • Public Justice: Trial Lawyer of the Year finalist (2024), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-law-firm-selected-as-finalist-for-public-justices-2024-trial-lawyer-of-the-year-award
  • Super Lawyers: Super Lawyers Northern California—Antitrust Litigation (2006-present); Super Lawyers Top 100 Northern California (2015-2016, 2019-present) , https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/six-joseph-saveri-law-firm-attorneys-honored-by-super-lawyers
  • 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), https://www.saverilawfirm.com/press/joseph-saveri-selected-as-top-competition-plaintiff-lawyer-worldwide-in-whos-who-legal-competition-2024-guide
Educational Background:
  • University of Virginia, J.D. 1987
  • University of California, Berkeley, B.A. in History and Economics, with Honors, 1984
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
  • "Touhy Exposed," co-written with David Seidel, California Daily Journal, October 13, 2022

Office location for Joseph R. Saveri

601 California St.
Suite 1505
San Francisco, CA 94108

Phone: 415-500-6800

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