Samuel Levine serves as Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, where he oversees enforcement, rulemaking, and policy work across a wide range of areas, including privacy, data security, marketing, financial services, digital advertising, consumer reporting, algorithmic decision-making, and small business financing. Before his appointment as Director, he served as an attorney advisor to Commissioner Rohit Chopra and as a staff attorney in the Midwest Regional Office. Prior to joining the FTC, Mr. Levine worked for the Illinois Attorney General, where he prosecuted predatory for-profit colleges and participated in rulemaking and other policy initiatives to promote affordability and accountability in higher education. Mr. Levine is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he spearheaded student-led efforts to challenge illegal foreclosures, and of Washington University in St. Louis. He clerked with The Honorable Milton I. Shadur in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and received the Gary Bellow Public Service Award in recognition of his commitment to social justice.

Ted Mermin is the founder and director of the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and of CLICC, the California Low-Income Consumer Coalition, and the Public Good Law Center.

The Center convenes and connects scholars, students, advocates and practitioners from around the state, the nation and the world to further the development of consumer law and economic justice. It holds four annual or biennial conferences, including the Consumer Law Scholars Conference, the Economic Justice Policy Advocates Conference, and the Teaching Consumer Law Conference; four regular regional and statewide convenings of experts from government, legal services, nonprofits, and academia; and symposia that have included topics ranging from the intersection of consumer law and the climate crisis, to the application of consumer protection law in prisons and detention centers; to coerced debt arising from domestic violence and elder financial abuse. The Center also runs the burgeoning Consumer Law Advocates, Students and Scholars (CLASS) Network, which comprises (and seeds) student consumer law and economic justice organizations in law schools around the nation. At Berkeley Law, Ted teaches Consumer Protection Law, Comparative Consumer Protection Law and the Consumer Law & Economic Justice Workshop, which compose three of the 20 courses in the field now offered at the law school – more than any other institution in the world. 

As director of CLICC, Ted convenes a partnership of legal service providers dedicated to furthering the rights of consumers through state and local policy advocacy. CLICC’s efforts have included laws to reform debt collection practices in the state, to preserve assets in the face of bank levies and wage garnishments, and to establish the revamped Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. In 2023, CLICC co-sponsored new laws prohibiting hidden junk fees and ending the use of common counts and the threat of jail in debt collection cases.

Ted also serves as executive director of the Public Good Law Center, in which guise he has assisted local, state, and federal agencies in the development and defense of innovative policies in public health and consumer law; helped litigate consumer rights and public health cases in appellate and trial courts around the nation, including in the United States Supreme Court; and written and spoken extensively on issues of free speech, preemption, tobacco control, marketing to children, deceptive advertising, and unfair competition. 

In the past, Ted has worked for most of a decade as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice, litigated in private practice, and served as a judicial clerk. He holds degrees from UC Berkeley (J.D.) and Yale (B.A.).

Daniel Garrie is the Founder of Law & Forensics LLC, Head of Computer Forensics and Cyber Security Practice Groups and has been a dominant voice in the computer forensic and cybersecurity space for over 20 years. Prior to Daniel’s legal career, he successfully built and sold several technology start-up companies. Since co-founding Law & Forensics LLC in 2008, Daniel has built it into one of the leading boutique cybersecurity forensic engineering firms in the industry. Daniel has both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in computer science from Brandeis University, as well as a J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School. Daniel has led forensic teams in some of the most visible and sensitive cyber incidents in the United States. ​

Daniel regularly testifies as an e-discovery, cybersecurity and computer forensic expert witness, authoring forensic expert reports on multi-million-dollar disputes. His ability to perform complex investigations and effectively communicate the results to a jury has made him one of the most sought-after experts in the country. His testimony has been pivotal in a number of cases. Since 2008, Daniel has served as a Neutral and Special Master and in 2016, he joined JAMS as one of the organization’s youngest Neutrals. At JAMS, Daniel serves as an Arbitrator, Forensic Neutral, and technical Special Master with a focus on cybersecurity, cyrptocurrency, and complex software and technology related disputes.​

Daniel is well-published in the cybersecurity space, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law & Cyberwarfare,  author of more than 200 articles and books including, “Understanding Software, the Internet, Mobile Computing, and the Cloud. A guide for Judges”, published by the Federal Judicial Center. He has been recognized by several United States Supreme Court Justices for his legal scholarship and is a trusted source and a thought leader for cybersecurity articles and opinions, being cited over 500 times to date.

Michael Geibelson is the Managing Partner of Robins Kaplan LLP’s California offices, the Past Chair of the California State Bar’s Litigation Section, and a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), the premier organization of U.S. real estate lawyers. Michael is a business trial lawyer who represents retailers, restaurateurs, developers, technology and cannabis companies, and partnership participants in business disputes involving false advertising and unfair competition, class actions, misappropriation of trade secrets, supply agreements, copyright and trademark. Michael has extensive trial experience, and has secured victories for his clients at trial in a wide range of cases: from the representation of a foreclosing lender in the termination of a lease for a state-of-the art cannabis production facility, to the decertification of a privacy class action with exposure to statutory damages of more than $1 Billion, to violations of the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. Michael is extensively involved in community and legal affairs. In addition to his work with the Litigation Section, he is a member of the Board of the Bandini Foundation (operator of the Heroes Golf Course at the West Los Angeles VA), the Advisory Board of Angel City Sports (a paralympics organization), the past chair of the Editorial Board of Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, and has performed extensive pro bono work involving adoptions, environmental issues and small business disputes.

Hon. Glenda Sanders (Ret.) joined JAMS after a distinguished career spanning 42 years.
Judge Sanders served as a Judge of the Superior Court of California for 20 years including 6
years on the Complex Civil Litigation Panel. During her time on the bench, she served as the
Supervising Judge of the Civil Panel, Chairperson of the Court’s Finance Committee, and
Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of California, Orange County, California’s third-largest
court.
Judge Sanders presided over hundreds of trials, and thousands of settlement negotiations and
motions in complex civil cases focusing upon multiparty, business/commercial disputes that
covered a wide range of matters. These included real estate/property, contracts, business torts,
professional responsibility, mass torts, catastrophic injuries, environmental, securities,
insurance, class actions, employment, Private Attorney General Act, intellectual property,
construction, and healthcare.

After 18 years as a United States Magistrate Judge with the Central District of California, including four
years as the Chief Magistrate Judge, Hon. Suzanne H. Segal (Ret.) joins Signature Resolution as a
mediator, arbitrator and Special Master/Discovery Referee. During her tenure on the federal bench,
Judge Segal presided over numerous trials, evidentiary hearings, motions and discovery conferences
involving diverse subject matter. Judge Segal served as the settlement judge in hundreds of cases,
settling business and insurance disputes, patent, trademark and copyright actions, and employment, civil
rights, and tort cases. Judge Segal handled a wide range of motions and settlements arising out of class
actions, particularly in the wage and hour context.
Judge Segal has broad experience in securities litigation, including matters brought by private investors
and the SEC. In addition, Judge Segal has extensive experience in matters involving the False Claims
Act and related actions involving the healthcare industry.
Judge Segal has served as a Special Master or Discovery Referee in cases involving the False Claims
Act, mass tort and insurance claims, patent litigation, and product liability claims.
Before her appointment to the bench, Judge Segal served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the
Civil Division of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office for 12 years. As an AUSA, Judge Segal handled
a variety of cases, including contract, employment, civil rights, Medicare reimbursement and tort claims.
She also brought consumer and civil rights actions on behalf of the Department of Justice. From 1999 to
2002, she served as the Chief of Civil Appeals for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Prior to serving in the U.S.
Attorney’s Office, Judge Segal was a civil litigator at Dewey, Ballantine and Adams, Duque and
Hazeltine.
Judge Segal has also served as a lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law and Loyola Law School.
Judge Segal is known for her work ethic and persistent dedication to reach a positive result for the
parties.

Thomas Dahdouh has over 30 years of law enforcement experience at the Federal Trade Commission. Since 2021, he has been an Attorney Advisor to FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. Before that, he served 9 years as Regional Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Western Region, overseeing competition and consumer protection cases in the San Francisco and Los Angeles FTC offices.  From 2012 to 2013, he was Assistant Regional Director for the San Francisco office.  In that role, he oversaw major enforcement litigations against large companies such as DeVry, AT&T, DIRECTV, Amerigas/BlueRhino, and Benco/Patterson/Schein.  Before that, he worked for 14 years as a staff attorney in the San Francisco office, handling both consumer protection and antitrust matters.  Previously, he worked at the FTC’s Washington, D.C., headquarters for two Commissioners and served as a Counselor to the Director for both the Bureau of Consumer Protection and the Bureau of Competition.  He was on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar’s Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section from 2009 to 2015, holding the position of Chair of the Section from 2014-2015.  He continues to this day as an Advisor to the Section.  He has written extensively on competition and privacy/consumer protection legal issues, including Practicing Law Institute’s Chronicle, the California state bar’s Competition journal, and the Antitrust Law Journal. He clerked for Second Circuit federal appellate judge Irving R. Kaufman, and Southern District of New York federal judge Michael B. Mukasey. He received his JD from Harvard Law School and his BA from Yale University.

Jill M. Manning is a partner of Pearson Warshaw, LLP, in the firm’s San Francisco office. She is a trial attorney and skilled litigator who focuses her practices on recovering damages for individuals, employers and businesses that were harmed by anticompetitive conduct and unfair business practices. She has successfully represented plaintiffs in some of the leading cases brought under federal and state antitrust and consumer protection laws. She has sued price-fixing cartels, high tech companies, electronics manufacturers, agribusinesses, healthcare companies, the NCAA and MLB, and achieved significant recoveries for her clients.
In the antitrust field, Ms. Manning represents a certified class of direct purchaser plaintiffs in an antitrust case against the leading suppliers of broiler chickens sold in the United States and secured $284 million in settlements. In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litig., Case No. 16-cv-08637 (N.D. Ill.). She represents a certified class of direct purchaser plaintiffs in an antitrust case against the leading suppliers of pork and pork products sold in the United States which has resulted in over $111 million in settlements. In re Pork Antitrust Litig., Case No. 18-cv-01776 (D. Minn.). She represents a certified class of minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball for violations of wage and hour laws and secured a $185 million settlement. Senne v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, Case No. 14-cv-00608 (N.D. Cal.). She represents a certified class of over 3 million California businesses and consumers who paid inflated health insurance premiums because of Sutter Health’s anticompetitive conduct. Sidibe, et al. v. Sutter Health, Case No. 12-cv-04854-LB (N.D. Cal). The case resulted in a defense verdict following a four-week trial and is now on appeal in the Ninth Circuit.
In the consumer protection field, Ms. Manning was appointed by Judge Koh as co-lead counsel for the certified California class in Grace v. Apple Inc., Case No. 17-CV-00551-LHK (N.D. Cal.), a case alleging that Apple intentionally caused the popular FaceTime feature to stop working on certain iPhone devices and secured an $18 million settlement. She was appointed by Judge Lee to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in In re: NCAA Student/Athlete Concussion Injury Litig., MDL No. 2492, Master Docket No. 16-cv-08727 (N.D. Ill), a multi-district action against the NCAA on behalf of former Division I football players who sustained concussion-related injuries. She was appointed by Judge Davila to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in cases challenging the conduct of Apple, Google, and Facebook in supporting and profiting from illegal social gambling apps on their platforms. In re: Apple Inc. App Store Simulated Casino-Style Games Litig., Case No. 21-md-02985-EJD (N.D. Cal.); In re Facebook Inc. App Center Simulated Casino-Style Games Litig., Case No.21-md-02777-EJD (N.D. Cal.); In re Google Play Store Simulated Casino-Style Games Litig., Case No.21-md-03001-EJD (N.D. Cal).
In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Manning has demonstrated leadership in her professional life and community. She is a court-appointed neutral for the Northern District of California’s Early Neutral Evaluation Program, and a court-appointed mediator for the Central District of California. She served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the California State Bar during the 2017-2018 term, and presently serves as an advisor. She is currently serving a four-year term on the Board of Directors of the California Lawyers Association. She is an elected official, serving on the Board of Trustees of Shoreline Unified School District since 2010, and as President of the Board since 2016.