Marshall L. Baker
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Complex Commercial Litigation
- Class Actions
- Consumer Protection
- Technology
- Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
- Product Liability
- Disputes & Investigations
- Business and class action litigator representing clients in complex civil actions and arbitrations across the country.
- Provides advice on complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on high-value class actions and business disputes.
- Represents clients across sectors, including investment management & private equity, energy, transportation, telecommunications and technology.
Marshall is a highly skilled litigator concentrating his practice on commercial litigation, complex business disputes and multistate class action defense. He has played a leading role in litigating cases filed in state and federal courts for clients across industries, including asset management, energy, telecommunications, technology and digital assets.
With a great depth of practice, Marshall handles a wide range of high-stakes business disputes on behalf of public and private companies. He has successfully defended countless class actions, including defeating class certification and obtaining dismissals of claims at the pleading stage and on summary judgment.
Marshall also has first-chaired arbitrations and litigated complex business disputes involving claims in partnership and investor disputes and for breach of contract and fiduciary duty. In addition, Marshall advises clients in connection with a range of corporate transactions and provides litigation risk advisory services to financial services and asset management clients.
- Defeated class certification of proposed false advertising and fraud class action brought against telecommunications company.
- First-chaired arbitration and obtained complete defense award for telecommunications company in arbitration involving alleged privacy violations under federal law.
- Defeated class certification of proposed product defect class action brought against major automotive company.
- Represented global technology company in several putative class actions concerning alleged misrepresentations in the labeling of consumer and business products and alleged product defects.
- Represented co-founder of leading bitcoin derivatives trading platform in complex civil litigation filed in state and federal courts.
EducationJ.D., University of California, Davis, School of Law, 2014
A.B., University of California, Davis, with highest honors, 2011
J.D., University of California, Davis, School of Law, 2014
A.B., University of California, Davis, with highest honors, 2011
Bar AdmissionsCalifornia
California