Bio

Jordan Elias represents consumers and small businesses injured by corporate violations. He has pursued civil claims against monopolists, price-fixing cartels, oil and tobacco companies, and the nation’s largest banks. In addition, for well over a decade Jordan has taken on pharmaceutical companies for collusion leading to inflated prescription drug prices. Jordan argued the first substantive motion in the digital advertising monopoly litigation against Google. He was the primary author of the plaintiffs’ briefs in the California Supreme Court in the Cipro “pay-for-delay” antitrust case, and led the appeal in In re U.S. Office of Personnel Management Data Security Breach Litigation, 928 F.3d 42 (D.C. Cir. 2019), where the court reversed the dismissal of a case brought on behalf of 22 million federal government employees and job applicants whose sensitive private information was hacked. Federal judges have described his advocacy as “very thorough” and “clearly in the public interest.” Jordan has been recognized by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®. A former chief arbitrator for the San Francisco Bar Association’s attorney fee disputes program, he received a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) award in 2016 and has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer, Appellate, since 2014. Jordan authored the Supreme Court chapter, and co-authored the Ninth Circuit chapter, in the American Bar Association’s authoritative Survey of Federal Class Action Law. For several years he has been responsible for the chapter on antitrust standing, causation, and remedies in California State Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law (Matthew Bender). Jordan also co-authored the chapter on CAFA exceptions in both the 2013 and 2022 editions of The Class Action Fairness Act: Law and Strategy, an ABA book. Jordan’s law review articles include Course Correction—Data Breach as Invasion of Privacy, 69 Baylor L. Rev. 574 (2018), and “More Than Tangential”: When Does the Public Have a Right to Access Judicial Records?, 29 Journal of Law & Policy 367 (2021). He has filed friend-of-the-court briefs representing legal scholars, the American Independent Business Alliance, and the League of Women Voters. In 2017 he was elected to the American Law Institute. Jordan is a native Californian who attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. After earning his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he served on the law review, Jordan clerked for the late Ninth Circuit Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall. He was an all-Ivy League sprinter and received the Field Prize at Yale.