Helen I. Zeldes

About Helen

Nationally recognized class action attorney Helen Zeldes joined Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, LLP in August 2019. Helen has dedicated her 20-year career to representing plaintiffs in complex cases involving fraud, deceptive business practices, defective products, antitrust, insurance bad faith, mortgage lending and banking fraud, employment discrimination, wage and hour and human rights violations. Helen is a fearless advocate for her clients who has demonstrated time and again for the millions of consumers she has represented over her career that she's truly in it for the long haul, working tirelessly in the trenches to bring corporate wrongdoers to justice. Helen routinely leads the charge as lead or co-lead counsel on high profile complex cases. Some of Helen's recent noteworthy cases include: Toll Roads Litigation, Trump University, Sony Electronics Trackpad Defect Litigation, Apple Power Adapter Defect Litigation, Mylife.com Reputation Fraud Litigation, US Healthworks Wage Hour Class Action, AMG Wage Hour Class Action, In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, and Masukawa v. County of San Diego. Helen was named a San Diego Super Lawyer from 2017-2019 and again from 2021-2024. She was also nominated for the 2016 National Association of Women Business Owners' Woman Business Owner Of The Year award and was a 2016 finalist in the San Diego Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business Awards. Helen is committed to giving back to the community - she currently champions sustainable farming and food justice issues on the Board of the Berry Good Food Foundation, is on the Advisory Board of Think Dignity, and was on the Board of San Diego BayKeeper (now CoastKeeper), to name a few. Ms. Zeldes is licensed to practice law in the California and Hawaii and is admitted to practice before all the federal district courts in both states. In an alternate universe somewhere Helen owned super cool local artist galleries in Encinitas and Hawaii, loves stand up and outrigger paddling and sneaks off to Bali and Mexico when no one is watching. When not fighting the good fight, she spends quality time with her daughter and new puppy.

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Colleagues at Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, LLP

Paul L. Hoffman

Partner

Erwin Chemerinsky

Of Counsel

Benjamin Schonbrun

Of Counsel

Michael D. Seplow

Partner

Wilmer J. Harris

Partner

Joshua A. Fields

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