Jenna Waldman is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Consumer Protection practice, where she litigates class actions on behalf of consumers who have been misled, deceived, or harmed by large corporations.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Jenna was a law clerk for the Honorable Florence Y. Pan of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before that, she was a law clerk for the Honorable Paul L. Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
While at Berkeley Law, Jenna served as an articles and essays editor for the California Law Review and was a member of Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic.
Prior to attending law school, Jenna worked as a Human Rights paralegal at Cohen Milstein.
- California
- District of Columbia
- University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D., 2021
- Brown University, B.A., 2016
Law Clerk, the Hon. Florence Y. Pan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2023 – 2024)
Law Clerk, the Hon. Paul L. Friedman, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (2022 – 2023)
Current Cases
DZ Reserve et al. v. Meta Platforms
DZ Reserve et al. v. Meta Platforms (N.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein represents advertisers who claim that Facebook’s Potential Reach metric is false and misleading due to systemic inflation of the Potential Reach. The court granted class certification on March 29, 2022. On March 21, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court's class certification ruling for the damages class.
In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation
In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation (N.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein is Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in this putative class action, in which consumers claim that Meta’s proprietary Meta Pixel tool intercepts and transmits protected patient health information to Facebook for advertising purposes in violation of state and federal consumer protection laws, including invasion of privacy, CDAFA, and ECPA.
TikTok Child Privacy Litigation
Villanueva, et al. v. Bytedance Inc., et al. (C.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein is representing parents of children, who are minors, in a putative consumer protection class action who claim that TikTok collects and uses their young children’s personal information without providing direct notice to parents or gaining parents’ verifiable consent in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”) and the COPPA Rule.
Investigations
TikTok Child Privacy Investigation
DOJ Says TikTok Violates Children’s Privacy The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has alleged that TikTok committed “unlawful massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy.” The DOJ’s complaint alleges that TikTok: Parents: Help Hold TikTok Accountable We are investigating whether TikTok’s alleged privacy violations could form the basis for a class action lawsuit. By banding together to press their […]