Jacqueline E. Mottek, Attorney

JACQUI E. MOTTEK received her Bachelor of Science degree in Government and Politics, cum laude, from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1979. Ms. Mottek obtained her Juris Doctor degree in 1986 from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she was a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law and a member of the University of San Francisco Law Review.

Ms. Mottek was associated with the law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison from 1987-1994. In 1994, Ms. Mottek served as sole chair in a jury trial resulting in a verdict in favor of her clients of $1 million. In 1994, Ms. Mottek became a partner with the firm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, concentrating her practice in plaintiffs' class actions with an emphasis on consumer fraud litigation and other complex business litigation for plaintiffs. She successfully prosecuted a certified class action on behalf of physicians who provided medical services to Blue Cross of California HMO members. She is the author of The Impact of Classwide Arbitration on Mandatory Arbitration, Vol. 1, No. 13, Class Action Litigation Report (October 27, 2000).

Prior to joining Coughlin Stoia, Ms. Mottek prosecuted consumer fraud class actions. She serves as co-lead counsel in several consumer class actions, including Tenet HealthCare Cases II, JCCP No. 4285, pending before the Los Angeles Superior Court, and as co-lead counsel and a member of the executive committee of the Cellphone Termination Fees Lit., JCCP 4332, pending before the Superior Court of Alameda County. She is also a senior litigator in Spielholz v. LA Cellular, Inc., Case No. BC186787 (resulting in the published opinion Spielholz v. Superior Court, 86 Cal. App. 4th 1866 (2001), granting a petition for a writ of mandamus she drafted in a question of first impression in California); in the matters coordinated before the federal court in the Northern District of Illinois, styled In re Ocwen Federal Bank Mortgage Servicing Litigation, MDL No.1604; and as counsel in Paton v. Cingular Wireless, No. CGC-04-428855, in the Superior Court of San Francisco.