Yeremey O. Krivoshey
Managing Partner, Founder
San Francisco

Yeremey is a founding partner at Smith Krivoshey.  He is one of the leading class action litigation attorneys in the country and has achieved extraordinarily rare results in the field.  For instance, in 2021, Yeremey secured the largest-ever consumer class action settlement in a case brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.  The settlement followed a class action trial win in the Northern District of California, where the federal court awarded a $267 million judgment after a jury trial. The $267 million verdict was the 12th largest verdict in the United States in 2019 in all practice areas.  While many class action attorneys claim to be trial attorneys, very few have actually litigated a certified class action through trial, and won.

 

Yeremey brings a diverse and unique perspective to class action litigation.  He emigrated from Belarus as a refugee at 8 years old, and spent the first years in America living in a tiny basement apartment with a large family, pets included.  Though the accent is long gone, the connection to underrepresented and distressed communities continues to fuel his passion for consumer advocacy.  Consumer class actions provide a tremendous tool to fight the feeling of being taken advantage of when facing corporate power as an individual.  This work is personal, and uplifting.

 

Yeremey sought to experience as much of America's immensely rich and diverse culture as possible from an early age.  He grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, received undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Psychology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from New York University School of Law.  In that span, he worked for the Department of Justice on bankruptcy and employment cases, at the ACLU focused on first and fourth amendment issues, and at an environmental NGO in Honolulu, Hawaii.  He got married to a California girl, and started his growing family.    

 

After law school, Yeremey spent over a decade litigating consumer class actions at a prestigious class action law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He quickly made partner, and gained a national reputation through victories and class settlements in federal and state courts throughout the country. Yeremey then co-founded Smith Krivoshey to pursue his vision of a modern, diverse, and responsible class action litigation firm.