Marcus J. Bradley

Marcus J. Bradley, a founding attorney at Bradley/Grombacher LLP, has distinguished himself in the legal field through a series of high-impact cases in personal injury, employment law, mass torts and class actions. His successful track record is marked by seven, eight and nine-figure verdicts and settlements.

In one of his notable cases, Bradley filed a case against a large retailer, challenging its policies and practices. The case alleged that Sam’s Club required its closing-shift workers to remain under the company’s control post-shift, without compensation, for store closing procedures. Sanchez v. Sam’s Club, Inc., 2:21-cv-05122 (C.D. Cal., filed June 23, 2021).

Another significant litigation saw Bradley playing a crucial role in addressing major privacy concerns in the digital age. The lawsuit accused Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, of tracking iPhone users’ activities despite their explicit choice to opt-out, in violation of privacy laws. Larch-Miller v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 3:22-cv05426 (N.D. Cal., filed Sept. 22, 2022).

This case is particularly noteworthy as it represents a broader struggle to protect consumer privacy against trillion-dollar tech corporations capable of pervasive data collection and analysis.

“Protecting consumers who have nowhere to hide from a company valued at just under $1 trillion is the type of David vs. Goliath battle I live for,” Bradley said. “I’m also working on several data breach cases that are of particular interest. Keeping data private and protected is a right that is violated by too many Silicon Valley (and other) corporations.”

Discussing the future, Bradley said how social media will continue to be a developing area of litigation.

“Facebook, Google and Amazon control 64% of online advertising revenue according to a Statista 2023 survey,” he said. “That’s trillions of dollars controlled by three corporations that are regularly guilty of violating consumer trust, committing data breaches, abusing employees, creating difficult or dangerous work environments and much more. With little effort being made to curb their behavior or break them up, it’s up to ambitious law firms to hold these trillion-dollar corporations responsible for their many abuses. This will continue to be an issue until the government steps in to rein these three corporations in, which is nowhere on the horizon.”