Jonathan Shub

Jonathan Shub is the founder of Shub & Johns LLC.  He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading class action consumer rights lawyers, based on his vast experience and successes representing classes of individuals and businesses in a vast array of matters involving unlawful conduct. He has gained notable attention in the area of defective consumer electronics and computer hardware as a result of many leadership positions in federal and state cases against companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Maytag, IBM and Palm. In fact, Maximum PC Magazine, a leading industry publication, said years back that “Shub is becoming renowned for orchestrating suits that have simultaneously benefited consumers and exposed buggy hardware.” He also has vast experience in mass tort class actions such as Vioxx, light tobacco litigation, and in consumer class actions such as energy deregulation. He is currently heavily involved in litigation on behalf of businesses that were denied insurance coverage involving COVID-19. 

Jon launched his career in the Washington office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where he worked on complex commercial matters including corporate investigations and securities litigation. He then moved into a practice of consumer protection and advocacy. Prior to joining Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Jonathan was the resident partner in the Philadelphia office of Seeger Weiss LLP. He is a frequent lecturer on cutting edge class action issues, and is a past chairman of the Class Action Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice. Jon regularly appears in state and federal courts nationwide, and in many high profile consumer protection cases. Jon’s leadership roles require him to develop the theories of liability for the entire class as well as the overall trial strategy for the cases. Most recently, Jon was co-lead and co-trial counsel in a case against municipality for violation of a state privacy law. The trial resulted in a jury award of approximately $68,000,000 to the Class.

Jon’s experience in class action litigation includes the following leadership positions:

• Austin v. Kiwi Energy NY, LLC, Index No. 515350/2017 (N.Y. Super. Kings Cty.) (ECF No. 66) (preliminarily approving class action settlement against KIWI Energy LLC for deceptive advertising of residential energy prices and appointing Mr. Shub as Class Counsel);
• Mercado v. Verde Energy USA, Inc., No. 18-cv-2068 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 18, 2021) (ECF No. 136) (court approved a settlement involving all individual residential consumers who enrolled in Verde Energy’s variable rate electricity plan in connection with properties located in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio or Pennsylvania arising out of allegations of deceptive advertising of residential energy practices);
• In re: AZEK Building Products Inc. Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, MDL No. 2506, Civil Action No. 2:12-cv-06627-MCA-MAH, (D.N.J.) (ECF 219) (appointed as co-lead class counsel in settled national litigation against CPG International for deceptive advertising in connections with deceptive advertising of AZEK-branded decking products);
• Tennille v. Western Union Company, No. 09-cv-00938 (D. Colo.) (ECF No. 175) (appointed as part of the executive committee counsel in settled national litigation against Western Union for  deceptive practices in connection with money transfers);
• In re Facebook PPC Advertising Litig., No. 09-cv-3043 (N.D. Cal.) (ECF No. 56) (appointed as co-lead class counsel and as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in litigation against Facebook for deceptive advertising practices); and
• In re: Palm Treo 600 and 650 Litig., No. 05-cv-3774 (N.D. Cal.) (ECF No. 18) (appointed as co-lead counsel in a national class action involving defective smart phones).