Mark Obenstine

About Mark Obenstine

Attorney Mark Obenstine is a complex litigation and class action specialist who holds corporate defendants accountable for misconduct. Obenstine is adept at identifying legal trends and opportunities for justice in the class-action space ahead of the curve. He anticipates shifts in the broader class-action landscape before they take hold. His forward-looking perspective enables him to recognize evolving patterns in consumer protection, corporate accountability, and regulatory enforcement, often before they become focal points of national litigation.

Obenstine graduated from Syracuse University, New York, in 1994, Summa Cum Laude. He attended Harvard Law School and graduated in 1999. His first job as an attorney upon graduating was with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, a large law firm based in San Francisco, California, where he spent two years before striking out on his own.

In 2001, he opened his own law practice, initially specializing in breach-of-contract cases for small businesses, and later formed a consulting practice focused on class-action litigation. He provided consulting services to law firms specializing in class actions, including legal research, developing novel legal argumentation, and overall strategic legal advice in connection with the firm’s class actions. While providing these services, he worked on dozens of cases, including several high-profile class actions.

In July 2024, Mark Obenstine decided to form his own class action firm and dedicate his time to uncovering cases that would be impactful and achieve meaningful resolutions through early, strategic pre-litigation settlement negotiation.

Class actions are typically brought when a large group of individuals with similar injuries or complaints collectively sue a defendant as a single group. These types of lawsuits allow the resolution of numerous claims in a single proceeding when it would be impractical for each person to file an individual lawsuit. Class actions often involve defective products, false advertising, employment law violations, consumer fraud, data breaches, securities fraud, or environmental disasters. They proceed through various phases, such as class certification and discovery, and can often end in a settlement.

A class action lawsuit can take as little as a few months or as long as a few years. If there are court appeals, it can take even longer.