Bobby Pouya is a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office, focusing on complex litigation, class actions, and consumer protection. Mr. Pouya has been an attorney with Pearson Warshaw, LLP since 2007, and has extensive experience in representing clients in a variety of contexts. He has served as a primary member of the litigation team in multiple cases that resulted in class certification or a class-wide settlement, including cases that involved high-technology products, price fixing, consumer safety and false and misleading advertising. The cases that Mr. Pouya has worked on have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments and settlements on behalf of effected plaintiffs and class members.

Mr. Pouya has served as one of the attorneys representing direct purchaser plaintiffs in several complex antitrust cases, including In re Polyurethane Foam Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ohio) and In re Fresh and Processed Potatoes Antitrust Litigation (D. Idaho). Mr. Pouya is currently actively involved in the prosecution of In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ill), In re Pork Antitrust Litigation (D. Minn.), Senne, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, et al. (N.D. Cal.), as well as several prominent consumer class action lawsuits.

Mr. Pouya’s success has earned him recognition by his peers as a Super Lawyers Rising Star (representing the top 2.5% of lawyers in Southern California age 40 or younger or in practice for 10 years or less) every year since 2008. Mr. Pouya earned his Juris Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2006, where he received a certificate in dispute resolution from the prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and participated on the interschool trial and mediation advocacy teams, the Dispute Resolution Law Journal and the Moot Court Board.

Current Cases:

• In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ill)
• In Re Pork Antitrust Litigation (D. Minn.)
• Higgins v. Paramount Pictures Corp. (and related cases) (L.A. Sup. Ct.)
• Senne, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, et al. (N.D. Cal.)

Education:

• Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California – J.D. – 2006
• University of California, Santa Barbara, California – B.A., with honors – 2003

Publications:

• Should Offers Moot Claims?, Daily Journal, Oct. 10, 2014
• Central District Local Rules Hinder Class Certification, Daily Journal, April 9, 2013

Bar Admissions:

• California
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• 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

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• American Bar Association
• Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
• Consumer Attorneys of California
• Los Angeles County Bar Association