OVERVIEW

J.R. is an associate in Hausfeld’s Washington, D.C. office specializing in complex litigation with a focus in human rights litigation, antitrust cases, as well as environment and product liability matters.

While in law school, J.R. was a summer associate at Hausfeld, assisting with consumer protection, RICO, and human rights litigation. He was also the Executive Director and a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, the United States’ oldest student-run civil legal aid office, committed to providing free representation to low-income and marginalized communities in the Greater Boston area. There, he accumulated over 1,000 hours of pro bono work by providing full legal representation to clients facing eviction in Housing Court and participated in numerous community outreach opportunities. As part of this legal representation, he assisted clients by engaging in counseling, document drafting and filing, oral advocacy, and settlement negotiations. As Executive Director, he ran daily operations of the Bureau, including managing intake and referral process, Bureau case assignment and management, internal and external conflict resolution, and various other administrative duties.

Clients

J.R. has represented a variety of clients. Before his time at Hausfeld, J.R. worked one-on-one with many low-income and disenfranchised housing tenants in the Boston community, defending against unjust evictions. During his time as a Summer Associate at Hausfeld, J.R. worked on cases on behalf of victims of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, conducted research regarding tribal sovereignty in coordination with other firms for indigenous tribes in the US, and has worked on a number of cases for both families and individuals in product liability, consumer protection, and antitrust matters. As an Associate, J.R. has worked on behalf of several Fortune 500 companies in a mass torts action, home sellers in Massachusetts, as well as all online publishers of original news and reference websites via class action.

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, J.D., 2023

West Virginia State University, Bachelor of Science in Communication, summa cum laude, 2017

BAR ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia

AFFILIATIONS

American Bar Association, Member (2024)

Harvard Law School

Harvard Journal on Legislation, Line Editor & Subciter (2020-2022)
First Class: First Generation Student Organization, Director of Operations (2021-2022)
Student Government, Elected 2L & 3L Representative (2021-2023)
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Executive Director (2022-2023), Housing and Wage Student Attorney (2021 – 2023)

Experience

Antitrust/Competition

In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation – Serving as counsel to dozens of rail-freight shippers in a high-profile antitrust case concerning alleged fuel-surcharge collusion among the nation’s largest rail-freight carriers.
In re Manufactured Home Lot Rents Antitrust Litigation – Hausfeld is co-lead counsel in an antitrust case filed on behalf of a putative nationwide class of manufactured home residents against nine community management companies and a market data provider, Datacomp Appraisal Systems Inc. The Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants conspired to exchange competitively sensitive information and fixed the price of rents at manufactured home lots across the country from at least 2019 through the present.

Human Rights

Kashef v. BNP Paribas SA – Representing a class of victims of human-right abuses committed by the Government of Sudan and militias, suing a French financial institution for its fraudulent financial practices, that allowed the Sudanese government to evade American sanctions.