Jeff Kosbie
Jeff Kosbie represents workers and consumers in class actions and other complex lawsuits involving data breaches and consumer privacy, employment law, and other corporate misconduct. He previously worked as a staff attorney in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2017-2018) and served as a Multidistrict Litigation Law Clerk to the Judges Lucy Koh, Beth Freeman, and Edward Davila of the Northern District of California (2018-2019).
Jeff serves as Treasurer of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (“BALIF”), the nation’s oldest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQI) persons in the field of law, and he is on the board of the BALIF Foundation. He was also selected to serve on the California Lawyers Association Litigation Section Executive Committee. He has published multiple articles in law reviews related to the history of LGBTQ rights. Jeff is a 2015 graduate, magna cum laude, of Northwestern University School of Law and Northwestern University Graduate School where he received a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Sociology. While in law school, Jeff served as an Articles Editor of the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy. He received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Sociology from Brandeis University in 2006.
I appreciate your efforts. I know this is your job, but you’re doing a world of good.
- Alexander C
admissions−
awards+
Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2023-2024
Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Labor and Employment Law – Employee, 2024
Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40, The National LGBT Bar Association, 2021
Rising Star, Northern California Super Lawyers, 2021-2023
Unity Award, Minority Bar Coalition, 2019
education+
- J.D., magna cum laude, Northwestern University School of Law, 2015
- Ph.D., Northwestern University Graduate School, 2015
- B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Brandeis University, 2006
memberships+
- American Association for Justice
- Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, Treasurer
- BALIF Foundation, Treasurer
- California Lawyers Association Litigation Section Executive Committee
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco, Board Member
Presentations & Articles+
Navigating Complex Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Issues in a Rapidly Changing Environment
Core Skills: Jury Selection (Organizer)
CLA Litigation & Appellate Summit
May 5, 2023
An Important Discussion re Civil Rights: Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion while Surviving COVID-19
California Lawyers Association Litigation and Appellate Summit
May 21, 2021
LGBTQ+ Employment Discrimination Claims in Practice
BALIF CLE Series
February 10, 2021
Overdue Protection for LGTBQ Workers
Trial Magazine, American Association for Justice
September 2020
How the Right to be Sexual Shaped the Emergence of LGBT Rights
22 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1389
August 2020
LGBTQ+ Employment Rights Webinar
American Association for Justice
June 25, 2020
Free Speech & LGBTQ+ Advocacy
Annual Symposium, William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
February 28, 2020
Wage and Hour Litigation & Enforcement Webinar
HB Litigation
February 18, 2020
Donor Preferences and the Crisis in Public Interest Law
57 Santa Clara L. Rev. 43
2017
(No) State Interests in Regulating Gender: How Suppression of Gender Nonconformity Violates Freedom of Speech
19 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 187
2013