Legal assistance for your Cannabusiness
Barry Himmelstein
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Practice Areas:
- Cannabis Law
- Cannabusiness Litigation
- Cannabusiness Counseling
- Cannabusiness Transactions
Education
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California
- J.D. – 1991
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Honors: Thurston Society
- Law Journal: Hastings Law Journal, Note and Articles Editor, 1990 – 1991
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- B.G.S. – 1982
- Honors: With Distinction
Bar Admission
- California, 1992
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1992
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Arkansas
Professional Associations
- State Bar of California, Member
- Bar Association of San Francisco, Member
Published Decisions
- In re HSBC Bank, USA, N.A., Debit Card Overdraft Fee Litig., 99 F. Supp. 3d 288 (E.D.N.Y. 2015)
- In re HSBC Bank, USA, N.A., Debit Card Overdraft Fee Litig., 13-MD-2451 ADS AKT, 2014 WL 1598017 (E.D.N.Y. Apr. 21, 2014)
- Cannon v. Wells Fargo Bank. N.A., C-12-1376 EMC, 2014 WL 324556 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 29, 2014)
- Gutierrez v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 730 F. Supp. 2d 1080 (N. D. Cal. 2010)
- Gutierrez v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 2010 WL 1233810 (N.D. Cal. 2010)
- In re Checking Account Overdraft Litig., 694 F. Supp. 2d 1302 (S.D. Fla. 2010)
- In re Checking Account Overdraft Litig., 677 F. Supp. 2d 1367 (J.P.M.L. 2009)
- In re Neurontin Marketing and Sales Practices Litig., 748 F. Supp. 2d 34 (D. Mass. 2010)
- In re Neurontin Marketing and Sales Practices Litig., 433 F. Supp. 2d 172 (D. Mass. 2006)
- Natural Gas Anti-Trust Cases I, II, III & IV, 2006 WL 5377849 (Cal. Superior 2006)
- California v. NRG Energy, Inc., 391 F.3d 1011 (9th Cir. 2004)
- In re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litig., 346 F. Supp. 2d 1123 (D. Nev. 2004)
- In re California Retail Natural Gas and Electricity Antitrust Litig., 170 F. Supp. 2d 1052 (D. Nev. 2001)
- In re Synthroid Marketing Litig., 110 F. Supp. 2d 676 (N.D. Ill. 2000)
- Medimatch, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc., 120 F. Supp. 2d 842 (N.D. Cal. 2000)
- In re American Family Enterprises, 256 B.R. 377 (D. N.J. 2000)
- Ammari Electronics v. Pacific Bell Directory, 2011 WL 5547588 (Cal. App. 2011)
Honors
- Northern California Super Lawyer, 2009 – 2022
- America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators, Northern California, 2018 – 2019
- Community Service Award, Jack Berman Advocacy Center, American Jewish Congress, 1996
Past Positions
- Judge Charles A. Legge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Law Clerk, 1991 to 1992
- Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, San Francisco, 1997-2011
- Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, 1992-1996