Rachel L. Jensen

Jensen has a nearly 20-year track record of helping to craft business reforms and recover billions of dollars on behalf of individuals, companies and government entities injured by unlawful business practices, fraudulent schemes and hazardous products.

She’s worked hard to break barriers for women and people of color in the legal profession. Jensen recalled a moment outside a New York courtroom last year as a securities case was about to begin. She was leading several female associates into court when a male partner at a prominent defense firm asked, “Don’t you have any males at your firm?” Replied Jensen, “We brought our A team.” And, she added, “We beat them at every turn in that case. As I tell the women I mentor, ‘You will encounter stunning prejudice, but you don’t let that define you. You use it as rocket fuel for your success.’”

Jensen settled late last year with Greyhound Lines Inc. a pro bono class action challenge to the transportation company’s practice of letting U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents come aboard its buses and enter non-public areas of stations to conduct warrantless immigration raids of its own customers. Cordova v. Greyhound Lines Inc., RG18928028 (Alameda Co. Super. Ct., filed Nov. 8, 2018).

Terms of the deal were confidential, but in February 2020 Greyhound announced it will end the practice. Earlier, within weeks of the filing of the complaint, Greyhound announced that it would provide warnings and know-your-rights information to passengers in English and Spanish. In June 2019 Robbins Geller obtained a landmark ruling from a state appellate panel affirming the consumer rights claims in the case and rejecting Greyhound’s defense that federal immigration law preempted California law and that it was required to comply with the border agency’s requests.

In an ongoing case, Jensen represents a Florida pension fund that has won class certification in securities litigation against a Spanish-language mass media company over revelations that bribery was behind the defendant’s widely-touted acquisition of broadcast rights to World Cup soccer games in 2026 and 2030. In re Grupo Televisa Securities Litigation, 1:18-cv-01979 (S.D. N.Y., filed March 5, 2018).

In early October a federal appellate panel turned away the defendant’s appeal. “Our client lost a substantial sum,” Jensen said. “We’re seeking many millions of dollars in this case.” She said that often the post-certification period is a window for settlement, but that no talks are currently in the works.

Jensen is herself a soccer fan who watched avidly as the U.S. women’s team won the World Cup last year. “I enjoyed teaching my sons to kick like a girl,” she said.

— John Roemer