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  • Ms. Lerach is Of Counsel at Bottini & Bottini.

  • She is a 1993 graduate of the University of Kentucky School of Law and is admitted to the Kentucky and California bars.

  • Ms. Lerach has dedicated her life to fighting for those without enough voice, from fighting for immigrants’ rights as a young law student to serving as partner/Of Counsel to the nation’s largest plaintiff’s firms, representing shareholders, workers, and consumers in a broad range of complex and class-action litigation for fraudulent business practices, human rights abuses, and labor and employment violations.

  • After graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Law, Ms. Lerach served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sara Walter Combs, Kentucky Court of Appeals.

  • Practiced law in Lexington (Newberry, Hargrove & Rambicure, PSC) and Louisville (Greenbaum, Doll & McDonald, LLP) before relocating to California in 1999.

  • In California, she joined Milberg Weiss and was a lead litigator in many cases, including:

    • Does I v. The Gap, Inc., Case No. 01-0031 (D.N. Mariana Islands), a case on behalf of approximately 25,000 sweatshop workers against leading clothing manufacturers, which successfully concluded with a $20 million settlement and a precedent-setting Monitoring Program to oversee labor and human rights practices in Saipan’s garment factories.

    • Worked on cases on behalf of the Sierra Club & the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (cross-border trucking).

    • Worked on high-profile securities class actions such as Enron ($7.3 billion recovered).

    • Participated in coordinated private actions like WorldCom.

  • In 2008, she received the Consumer Attorneys of California, Women's Law Caucus Award as Outstanding Consumer Advocate.

  • Ms. Lerach is currently serving as one of the lead counsel in Mayberry et al., Derivatively as members and Beneficiaries of Trust Funds on behalf of the Kentucky Retirement Systems v. Aldridge et al, CASE No. 2019-CA-000043-OA (Circuit Court, Franklin, Kentucky), a derivative action seeking to recover billions of dollars in losses sustained by the Kentucky Retirement System due to wrongdoing committed by KKR, Blackstone, and various individual defendants.

  • Worked as a consultant to the Liberian Ministry of Gender & Development with respect to that country's proposed constitutional revisions, specifically as relates to gender neutrality.

  • An outspoken critic of current GMO labeling policy.

    • Involved in the 2012 California ballot initiative to label GMOs (Prop 37).

    • Organized university forums and debated opponents of the measure in San Diego.

    • Served on the steering committee of Californians for GE Labeling, which spearheaded the renewed effort to achieve GMO labeling in California in 2016.

  • Advocate for sustainable farm internship programs.

    • Chosen as one of San Diego Magazine’s 50 People to Watch 2011 for this work.

  • Regular speaker at academic institutions:

    • Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University (regarding the recently adopted Israeli class-action statute).

    • Cornell University Law School (Joint JD/MBA Program).

    • University of Kentucky College of Law (Randall-Park Colloquium).

  • Moderated panels at the University of San Diego on:

    • Ethical Eating and Water Matters (in conjunction with the Changemaker Challenge).

    • Future Thought Leaders series on behalf of the Berry Good Food Foundation on UCTV.

      • For this work, she has received four San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards.

  • Author of “Improving Corporate Governance Through Litigation Settlements,” Corporate Governance Review.

  • Leadership and advisory roles:

    • Vice Chair of the Board of the University of California Press Foundation, focused on progressive scholarship.

    • Member of the Advisory Board of the Women Peacemakers Program at the Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego.

    • Advisor to Kiss the Ground, devoted to promoting regenerative agriculture, connecting sustainable agricultural practices to the larger issue of climate change, and Executive Producer of a documentary film of the same name slated for release 1/18.

    • Founder/President of the Berry Good Food Foundation.

  • University of Kentucky School of Law, J.D., 1993.

  • Admitted to the Kentucky and California bars.