Jack Altura is an associate in our Irvine office and is a member of our business litigation practice group. Jack focuses his practice on complex business litigation, class action defense, and data privacy and cybersecurity litigation. He advises clients in multidistrict litigation, class actions, and single plaintiff claims, as well as assists clients responding to civil investigative demands from state attorneys general and federal agencies.
Jack has defended clients in a variety of data privacy related claims, including Video Privacy Protection Act, California Invasion of Privacy Act, Comprehensive Computer Data and Fraud Act, California Consumer Protection Act, Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, Washington’s Commercial Electronic Mail Act, California’s anti-spam statute, and Pennsylvania’s Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act, among others. He also litigates cases challenging the use of chat bot, session replay, web beacons and other adtech and website-related technology.
Recently Jack defended a publicly traded company that was the victim of a data breach and was sued by consumers in more than a dozen class actions consolidated into a multidistrict litigation who alleged their data was stolen and misused by the hackers. Jack was the principal associate on the case, coordinating all aspects of both the MDL and civil investigative demands issued by state and federal agencies. Jack was responsible for drafting various motions, overseeing document review of more than 1 million documents, preparing for discovery disputes before the special master involving ESI and access to and production of relational database backups, and preparing and defending the client’s c-suite executives and vice presidents for depositions and regulatory interviews. He was also heavily involved in expert discovery and motion practice and opposing the motion for class certification. Ultimately, the client successfully defeated the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification.
Jack also advises clients in a variety of business and consumer finance cases including class action adversary proceedings in bankruptcy, RICO, California’s UCL, Consumer Legal Remedies Act, shareholder direct and derivative claims, breach of stock purchase agreement, among others.