Area of Practice: Class Action Practice
Ms. Golan successfully represents clients of all sizes battling deceptive trade practices – from consumers prosecuting class actions to Fortune 10 clients defending complex litigation claims. She has helped non-profit organizations pursue justice and assisted large companies injured by their competitors' false advertising practices.
In all her work, Ms. Golan's mission has been the same: to keep companies honest. To give purchasers truthful information so they can make informed decisions about the software they use, the schools they enroll, and the products they eat, lather onto their skin, or spray into their air. To support companies that do the right thing, and to stand up to companies that won't.
Ms. Golan is often credited for pioneering the wave of class actions alleging products are falsely labeled as "natural" or "organic." She investigated, wrote, and filed the original class actions against Kashi and Naked Juice – the suits that first relied on regulatory classifications of food ingredients and challenged products for GMO content. Since then, Ms. Golan has litigated actions against other product companies that falsely advertise their products to be hypoallergenic, phone carriers who violate federal laws prohibiting robocalls, computer software companies violating federal laws and breaching contracts that promise data privacy and security, and others.
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Ms. Golan also counsels companies seeking honesty in their business practices, helping ensure that their products, services, and marketing do not run afoul of state and federal law.
Ms. Golan received her law degree from Cornell Law School, magna cum laude, and her bachelors degree from the University of Texas at Austin, summa cum laude. She then served as a law clerk to Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before founding The Golan Firm, Ms. Golan was a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, an international law firm that is consistently ranked as one of the top-five litigation firms in the country.
