Ronald Podolny

Biography Overview

Ron Podolny is a Lead Attorney in the Complex Litigation Group of Morgan & Morgan PA.  He joined the Complex Litigation Group after practicing for 15 years in Canada, 10 of which were dedicated exclusively to representing the plaintiffs in class actions and mass torts.  In that capacity, he represented plaintiffs in numerous securities, antitrust, consumer and privacy class actions, and was trial counsel in several class action trials.

At Morgan & Morgan, Mr. Podolny’s practice is focused on representing the plaintiffs in class actions arising out of data breaches, defective consumer and pharmaceutical products, misleading advertising, and other matters.  He represents plaintiffs in data breach class actions against Dell Inc., J.P. Morgan & Co., Change Healthcare Inc., GardaWorld, Evolve Bank, and several other leading technology and financial services providers.  He acts for plaintiffs in groundbreaking litigation on behalf of New Jersey law enforcement officers against hundreds of data brokers pursuant to Daniel’s Law public safety statute.  He represents plaintiffs in a class action against GM, OnStar and several data brokers arising from alleged consumer vehicle tracking.  He is part of the plaintiffs’ team in a privacy class action against Google in respect of its Firebase development platform.

Most recently, Mr. Podolny was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Interim Executive Committee in Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. data breach litigation (United States District Court of the Northern District of Texas) and to the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in On Q Financial data breach litigation (United States District Court for the District of Arizona).

Mr. Podolny has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.  In that capacity, he was recognized with the Osgoode Hall Law School Faculty Teaching and Service Award for contribution to legal education as an Adjunct Professor (2022).

Mr. Podolny’s work has been repeatedly recognized by industry publications, including:

• Precedent Setter Award for excellence and leadership in practice and community (2018),
• Lexpert Rising Stars Award: Leading Lawyers Under 40 (2019),
• Recognized by Best Lawyers ™ in the category of Securities Law (2023),
• Recognized as Repeatedly Recommended (Class Actions) in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2024).
   

Mr. Podolny speaks frequently in professional conferences on matters relating to class actions and commercial litigation. Mr. Podolny has presented repeatedly on cross-border class actions at the American Association for Justice conferences, across the U.S.  He has been interviewed on legal matters in television, radio and print media.

Mr. Podolny has authored articles on a variety of topics in class actions and commercial litigation in leading industry and academic publications in the U.S., Canada and UK. His articles have been cited with approval by the courts.

Mr. Podolny is admitted to practice in New York and Ontario, and practices in Morgan & Morgan’s Tampa office.