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Tyler Meade was born May 31, 1967 in Berkeley, California and was admitted to the Bar in 1992. He lives in Berkeley with his wife Sheila and their four children.
Education:
B.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989.
J.D. University of California, Hastings College of Law, 1992.
 Experience: In his 15 years of practice, Mr. Meade has tried twelve cases to verdict and handled dozens of writs and appeals in the appellate courts. He was a Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the California Attorney General’s Office from 1993-1998, where he focused on appeals and prosecuting financial crimes. From 1998-2000, Mr. Meade worked at Bartko Zankel, a San Francisco litigation firm, where he focused on defending complex class actions and business tort actions, including In Re American Honda Dealership Relations Litigation (MDL No. 1069), a fraud and civil RICO class action that settled for $330 million.
From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Meade focused on representing plaintiffs in mass tort cases, class actions, and serious personal injury and employment litigation. While at Gillin, Jacobson, Ellis & Larsen (GJEL), he served on the plaintiff’s executive committee in In re Hip Replacement Cases (JCCP 4165), a products liability action against Sulzer Orthopedics, a company that manufactured defective hip and knee implants. JCCP 4165 was part of a one billion dollar nationwide settlement in In Re Sulzer Hip Prosthesis and Knee Prosthesis Liability Litigation (MDL No. 1410). GJEL’s clients received $9.2 million in compensation.
Michael Schrag was born on January 14, 1967 in Berkeley, California and was admitted to the Bar in 1996. He lives in Oakland with his wife Andrea and their three children.
Education:
B.A. Columbia University, New York, NY, 1989.
J.D./M.P.P. University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1996.
 Experience: Mr. Schrag was a Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge Judith N. Keep, Southern District California. Mr. Schrag began his career prosecuting complex securities fraud class actions at Milberg Weiss (now Coughlin Stoia, et al.) in San Diego, California. In 1999, Mr. Schrag joined his father Tom Schrag and James Baum at Schrag & Baum, P.C, where he spent the majority of his time working on two major complex cases:
Currency Conversion Litigation: Mr. Schrag was part of the trial team in Schwartz v. Visa, et al. (Alameda County Case No. 822402-4), a UCL action against Visa and MasterCard for failing to disclose a currency conversion fee charged to cardholders who used credit cards in foreign countries. Mr. Schrag also prosecuted a parallel class action on behalf of debit cardholders (Shrieve v. Visa USA, Inc., et al., Alameda County Case No. RG04155097) and an antitrust class action alleging a conspiracy to fix the price of currency conversion fees against Visa, MasterCard, Bank of America, Citibank, Chase and other banks (In Re Currency Conversion Fee Litigation, MDL No. 1409). After a six month trial in Schwartz, the trial court entered judgment in Plaintiff’s favor and ordered Visa and MasterCard to refund illegally obtained currency conversion fees. While Schwartz was pending in the California Supreme Court, a $336 million settlement agreement was reached to resolve all currency conversion fee actions. This settlement received preliminary approval from the federal court in MDL No. 1409 and a final approval hearing was held on March 31, 2008.
Sulzer Orthopedics Litigation: Mr. Schrag represented 25 plaintiffs in a nationwide products liability action against Sulzer Orthopedics, a company that manufactured defective hip and knee implants (In Re Sulzer Hip Prosthesis and Knee Prosthesis Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1410). Schrag & Baum was appointed Co-Lead Plaintiff’s Counsel in the California coordinated actions (In re Hip Replacement Cases, JCCP 4165). MDL No. 1410 settled for over one billion dollars and Mr. Schrag’s clients received settlements of approximately $10 million.
Since forming Meade & Schrag LLP in 2006, Mr. Meade and Mr. Schrag have continued to focus on complex consumer and antitrust class actions and serious personal injury and employment litigation.
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