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Blake Hunter Yagman

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Blake Hunter Yagman is a Partner at Spiro Harrison & Nelson.

Blake has nearly a decade of litigation experience representing consumers, small businesses and municipalities in antitrust, consumer protection and data privacy matters specifically involving price-fixing, unlawful mergers and monopolization, anticompetitive conduct through the use of algorithms, unfair and deceptive trade practices, illegal biometric collection as well as seeking redress for large-scale data breaches and surreptitious sale of personally identifiable information and protected health information.

Blake has served in numerous court-appointed positions, both individually and as part of firmwide teams, on trial teams and in contributing roles in groundbreaking litigation.

Immediately before law school, Blake clerked for the Hon. Lawrence A. Schwartz on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, interned both in the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate and campaigned as an appointed community organizer for the 2012 reelection of United States President Barack Obama. Since 2017, Blake has lectured and moderated symposium panels at New York-area law schools on antitrust topics, including at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. In the fall of 2025, Blake will be enrolled in the Antitrust and Regulatory Law program at Cornell University.

Blake is an active member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, a non-profit organization built on the legacy of President Theodore Roosevelt to inspire public service and conservationism as well as to provide aide to sick children in the United States. Blake is also a member and mentor for the LGBT Bar Association of New York.

Blake received his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law with concentrations in Intellectual Property and Data Law. Prior to law school, he received his B.A. from the University of Miami.

Blake is admitted to practice in the State of New York and is pending admission to the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Representative Matters
  • S.K., et al. v. Jupiter Research, LLC, et al. (Northern District of California) – represented indirect purchasers of cannabis vaporizer cartridges impacted by an alleged collusive price-fixing scheme.
  • Neumark, et al. v. Swedish Match North America, LLC, et al. (Eastern District of Virginia) – represented indirect purchasers of modern oral nicotine pouches impacted by alleged anticompetitive conduct.
  • In re American Airlines/JetBlue Antitrust Litigation (Eastern District of New York) - previously appointed as part of an interim co-lead counsel team representing direct purchasers of airline tickets impacted by alleged anticompetitive conduct by two major airlines flying out of four major airlines in the northeast United States.
  • In re Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation (Eastern District of Pennsylvania) - represented direct purchasers and contributed to a trial team as part of the prosecution of a price-fixing conspiracy by major egg producers.
  • In re Google Play Consumer Antitrust Litigation (Northern District of California) - represented direct purchasers of Android mobile applications and in-application purchases impacted by alleged monopolistic conduct.
  • In re Deere & Company Repair Services Antitrust Litigation (Northern District of Illinois) - represented direct purchaser owners of John Deere tractors impacted by alleged monopolistic conduct related to the right-to-repair those tractors.
  • In re California Gasoline Spot Market Antitrust Litigation (Northern District of California) - represented California indirect purchasers of gasoline impacted by anticompetitive and collusive conduct by gasoline spot market traders.
  • In re Apple Inc. Smartphone Antitrust Litigation (District of New Jersey) - represented indirect purchasers of smartphones impacted by monopolistic conduct.
  • Caccuri, et al. v. Sony Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (Northern District of California) - represented direct purchasers of downloadable Sony PlayStation video games impacted by monopolistic conduct.
  • Gerber, et al. v. Twitter, Inc. (Northern District of California) - previously appointed as part of an interim co-lead counsel team representing victims (in a case of first impression) of a 211+ million person data breach that occurred on a major social media platform.
  • Doe v. GoodRx, Inc. (Northern District of California) - previously appointed as part of an executive committee team representing users of an online drug discount card website whose protected health information was alleged to have been packaged and sold to major technology companies.
  • In re CityMD Data Privacy Litigation (District of New Jersey) - previously appointed as one of three interim co-lead counsel representing urgent care clinic patients who had the protected health information provided to a website which was alleged to have been packaged and sold to major technology companies.
  • Boone, et al. v. Snap, Inc. (Illinois State Court) - represented minor plaintiffs in the State of Illinois whose biometric information was allegedly collected unlawfully by a social media application.
  • Veiga, et al. v. Respondus, Inc. (Illinois State Court) - represented college students in the State of Illinois whose biometric information was allegedly collected unlawfully by a computerized test proctoring system.
  • Gross, et al. v Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation (Southern District of New York) - represented visitors (in a case of first impression) to a major sports and concert arena whose biometric information was collected unlawfully upon entry.
  • Ajzenman, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, et al. (Central District of California) - represented sports fans who sought refunds for purchased tickets to professional baseball games for the 2020 COVID-19 affected season.