Lexi J. Hazam

Practice Areas

Lexi serves as Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel for the Plaintiffs in litigation arising from the October 2, 2021 oil pipeline rupture off the coast of Orange County. She is also Co-Lead Counsel for the thousands of individual plaintiffs in the Thomas Fire and Woolsey Fire cases against Southern California Edison arising from the colossal wildfires Edison’s equipment caused in recent years. Victims whose homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged in the fires have recovered approximately $1 billion in settlements to date through these efforts.

Lexi was Co-Chair of the Class Action Committee in consolidated lawsuits against Pacific Gas & Electric relating to losses from the 2017 San Francisco Bay Wine Country Fires, and served on the Individual Plaintiffs Executive Committee in the litigation; the trust settlement in those cases led to $13.5 billion in settlements for victims. Lexi further specializes in developing regulatory and epidemiological evidence and scientific experts in pharmaceutical and device cases.

Lexi also has international litigation experience. She represented hemophiliacs worldwide who contracted HIV and/or Hepatitis C from contaminated blood factor products in America, obtaining a favorable confidential settlement in 2009. Lexi played a key role in litigating the case and in negotiating and administering a settlement of the claims of over a thousand clients in 15 countries, utilizing her multilingual skills in work on several continents.

Career

A leader in the plaintiffs’ bar, Lexi J. Hazam Chairs the firm’s Mass Tort/Personal Injury Practice group and also represents clients in qui tam actions and other complex class action cases.

Lexi was named to the The National Law Journal’s 2021 list of Elite Women of the Plaintiffs’ Bar, and in 2020 and 2021she was selected as one of the “Top Women Lawyers in California” by the Daily Journal. In 2021, Lexi was re-elected Chair of the American Association for Justice’s Section on Qui Tam Litigation. In 2017, Lexi was elected as Chair of the American Association for Justice’s Section on Toxic, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Torts (STEP). Lexi was also selected in 2015 for the AAJ Leadership Academy. Lexi has published articles regarding the use of technology-assisted review in litigation, and serves as a drafter for the George Washington University Mass-Tort MDL Best Practices Committee. Lexi has spoken at numerous conferences on mass disaster, pharmaceutical, device, and Whistleblower/False Claims Act litigation.

Professional Memberships

-American Association for Justice (Vice-Chair, Section on Qui Tam Litigation, 2018; Co-Secretary, Section on Qui Tam Litigation, 2016)

-Law360 Editorial Advisory Board, Product Liability, 2018

-American Association for Justice (Chair, Section on Toxic, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Torts, 2016)

-Bar Association of San Francisco (Court Funding and Litigation Challenge Group Task Force)

-Board of Governors, Consumer Attorneys of California, 2015

-San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (Diversity Committee)

-State Bar of California

Publications

-“Technology-Assisted Review: Advice for Requesting Parties,” Practical Law, October/November 2016

-“Technology-Assisted Review,” Sedona Conference Working Group 1 Drafting Team, 2015

Education

Awards