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Sylvia Sokol Practice Areas: Antitrust Litigation, Business Litigation Phone: (415) 362-3599 |
Sylvia Sokol’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation. She is currently working on In re Municipal Derivatives (S.D.N.Y.), a class action lawsuit on behalf of Californians against financial brokers and institutions, alleging widespread price-fixing and bid rigging in the multibillion dollar municipal derivatives industry.
She has also been involved in other nationwide antitrust actions, including In re Fretted Musical Instruments (S.D. Cal.); In re Optical Disk Drives (N.D. Cal.); and In re TFT-LCD (N.D. Cal.) In addition to antitrust litigation, Sylvia has represented clients in disputes involving unfair and unlawful business practices, consumer violations, and civil rights violations.Prior to joining Moscone Emblidge & Sater, Sylvia worked as an attorney at The Sturdevant Law Firm and Morrison & Foerster. Following law school, she was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to assist the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Public Defender in its defense of people facing the death penalty, and in developing training materials for the capital defense bar in Nevada. From 1999-2000, she served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Sylvia was named a Northern California Super Lawyer as published in San Francisco Magazine and Northern California Super Lawyer Magazine in 2011. Super Lawyers is a listing of the top 5% of attorneys in Northern California who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.Sylvia participates in a number of civic and legal organizations. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Antitrust Section. She is also a former Board member of two not-for-profit organizations.
Sylvia graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law in 1998. She is a bilingual English and French speaker.
