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Christopher O'Hara is a partner at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro where he has worked since 1997. He practiced for nearly five years in the firm's Phoenix office before returning to the Seattle office, where he currently concentrates on antitrust, consumer, tax and securities class actions. Mr. O'Hara serves as plaintiffs' counsel in the Expedia consumer litigation and in Hotel Occupancy Tax litigation in various jurisdictions across the country. Mr. O'Hara has worked on a variety of price fixing cases including actions against the Hydrogen Peroxide, Linerboard and Laminate industries. An active member of the firm's Microsoft defense team, he negotiates claims administration policy and processing rules on behalf of Microsoft in twenty consumer and antitrust class action state settlements around the country. While in Phoenix, Mr. O'Hara deposed more than a dozen of big tobacco's expert witnesses, research scientists and marketing executives for the Tobacco Litigation, focusing predominantly on the Arizona case. He coordinated Arizona's national and local expert witnesses, while contributing to all aspects of discovery and motion practice. Mr. O'Hara played a leading role in the firm's successful defense of the state of Arizona against claims brought by several Arizona Counties in the aftermath of the state's tobacco litigation. Prior to joining Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, Mr. O'Hara focused on property loss subrogation and professional liability defense at a Seattle-area law firm.Specialties: Complex consumer, commercial and antitrust class actions

Listed skills include Class Actions, Litigation, Competition Law, Commercial Litigation, and 15 others.