Blake Hunter Yagman is a Partner at Spiro Harrison & Nelson, where he leads the firm’s Data Privacy Litigation practice and contributes to the firm’s Antitrust and Unfair Competition practice.

Blake represents consumers, businesses, and municipalities in class action, complex, high-stakes litigation across a wide range of different industries, and advises clients seeking regulatory guidance, compliance, and litigation risk. Blake’s litigation experience includes the prosecution of antitrust, data privacy, and deceptive or unfair practices violations in courts across the country. Blake’s cases often address sophisticated, developing areas of law with novel allegations such as the unlawful use of sophisticated algorithms and software price manipulation across industries, the surreptitious collection and use of biometric and sensitive data, as well as the breach of confidential information due to cybersecurity lapses, malicious hacking incidents, and ransomware attacks.

Additionally, Blake has advanced procedural knowledge of class action, complex, and multi-district litigation practice before numerous federal and state courts, and the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Blake has used an innovative repertoire of procedural skills to the benefit of his clients, including numerous successful oppositions of the use of mandatory and binding arbitration clauses and class action waivers, and has extensive experience guiding teams of lawyers, as well as leading hearings and oral arguments while participating at trial.

Currently, Blake serves in various mentorship roles for law students and young attorneys. He has recently guest lectured on complex litigation and legal ethics topics at the University of Miami and Hofstra University and has provided commentary for law school symposium panels at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Additionally, Blake is a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and of the conservationist society called Friends of Sagamore Hill, and a member of the LGBT Bar Association of New York.

Prior to law school, Blake wrote for numerous sports publications on legal issues and clerked for the Honorable Lawrence A. Schwartz (Ret.) in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida. Blake has had roles in federal legislation, campaign organizing, and the sports industry, having worked in both houses of the United States Congress as well as for the former President of the United States. Blake also has unique private sector experience, having been employed as a student assistant football coach for the University of Miami Hurricanes and as a legal intern for several well-known sports agencies. Blake’s journalistic work has been cited in law review articles at the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, Villanova, University of Cincinnati, Hofstra University, and Seton Hall; and Blake provided testimony to the United States Senate’s 113th Congress.

Blake received his Juris Doctor from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Data Law; at Cardozo, Blake wrote his symposium paper in 2017, “When the Bully Takes the Bully Pulpit,” about the limits of defamation laws when elected and political figures use social media. Prior to law school, he received his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Miami.

Blake is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and is pending admission in the District of Columbia. Blake also has active federal court admissions in the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, the Northern District of Illinois, the District of Colorado, the District of Columbia and District of Maryland. Blake has a forthcoming application for admission to the Commonwealth of Virginia.