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For nearly a decade, Blake has fought for consumers, small businesses and municipalities, against corporations that commit misconduct and malfeasance. Blake’s work has been at the intersection of economic and social justice, with reporting on his cases in ESPN, The New York Times, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Law360, Yahoo! News, Law.com, and Bloomberg.

Blake’s practice focuses on leveling the playing field for litigants in court who have significant economic injuries due to violations of antitrust, consumer protection, and data privacy laws. Specifically, Blake’s cases usually involve complex and emerging areas of law, including representing victims of price fixing, harm to businesses from illegal monopolization, theft of sensitive data and information in data breaches, surreptitious collection of biometric information, and unlawful digital tracking. Blake also regularly represents purchasers of products and services that are mislabeled or are sold using unfair acts and practices.

Blake continues to spend each day challenging some of the gravest corporate misconduct in recent history.

Representative Matters:

• Representing (as a member of the steering committee) a class of consumer egg purchasers who allege that they paid supra competitive prices for shell eggs as a result of a purported algorithmic benchmarking scheme.

• Representing the first ever class of consumer victimized by surveillance pricing whereby airfares were adjusted according to sensitive information collected about each of them.

• Representing (as interim co-lead counsel) a proposed class of millions of New Yorkers harmed by a significant data breach of New York’s municipal hospital system, the largest municipal hospital system in the United States.

• Represented a proposed class of purchasers of sporting event tickets against a major sports league harmed after not being refunded due to the COVID-19 shortened and fan-less season.

• Represented a class of purchasers of gasoline across an entire state who paid higher prices due to collusion by spot market financial traders.

• Represented a proposed class of hundreds of independent pharmacies who were victims of suppressed reimbursement rates for generic pharmaceutical sales due to algorithmic price fixing by pharmacy benefit managers.

• Represented a proposed class of purchasers of airline tickets against two major airlines who paid supra-competitive prices due to an alleged unlawful agreement and collusive conduct.

• Represented a proposed class of over 200 million victims in a data breach case of first impression against a social media company.

• Represented a class of millions of minor plaintiffs in Illinois against a social media company who had their biometric data collected without adequate consent.

• Represented a proposed class of millions of concert and sporting event attendees against a well-known sporting venue who allegedly had their biometric data collected unlawfully.

Education and Bar Admissions:

• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Juris Doctor (Data and Intellectual Property Law)

• University of Miami  - Bachelor of Arts

State Courts

• New York

• Washington, D.C.

United States District Courts

• Southern District of New York

• Eastern District of New York

• District of Columbia

• District of Maryland

• District of Colorado

• Northern District of Illinois

• Western District of Wisconsin

Public Service and Professional Associations:

• Founding Member, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

• District of Columbia Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll

• Antitrust and Consumer Law Committee of the District of Columbia Bar Association

• LGBTQ Bar Association of New York City

• The United States Supreme Court Historical Society

• The Theodore Roosevelt Association

• Friends of Sagamore Hill

Guest Lecture Teaching and Symposium Engagements

• University of Miami

• University of California (Irvine) School of Law

• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

• Hofstra University’s Deane School of Law

• University of Minnesota School of Law