Litigation
Jun. 15, 2002
On the Cutting Edge
Top 30 Women Litigators - Lori A. Scechter - When most people stroll down the supermarket aisles, they see products such as apple juice, coffee and cold medication.
Lori A. Scechter
When most people stroll down the supermarket aisles, they see products such as apple juice, coffee and cold medication.
San Francisco attorney Lori A. Schechter sees lawsuits alleging false advertising against companies she represents.
Despite these claims, her buying habits haven't changed.
"My clients are all wrongly accused," Schechter, of Morrison & Foerster, says half-joking.
A recent victim is the pharmaceutical company Glaxo Smith Kline, which Schechter is defending against a suit filed in April by a consumer group, charging that the company misled shoppers by stating that its cold-sore medication cuts healing time in half.
Schechter's business litigation practice also includes antitrust and Internet privacy cases.
In March 2001, she convinced a New York federal judge to dismiss a class action against DoubleClick Inc. The case, which consolidated 13 nationwide class actions, alleged that the company's collection of personal user information over the Internet violates consumer privacy.
Schechter, a New York native, didn't reach the cutting edge of Web-related litigation without first toiling away in relative obscurity as an IBM computer programmer in the early 1980s. As a measure of her rise in prominence, her recent victory on behalf of DoubleClick made headlines throughout the country.
During her career, Schechter, 40, has found time for pro bono work. A few years ago, she served as part of a legal team that defeated a California law requiring parental consent or a court order for a minor to obtain an abortion. American Academy of Pediatrics v. Lungren, 16 Cal.4th 307 (1997).
Eron Yehuda
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