CClaimWatch
Plaintiff counsel in 7 cases

Lynn Lincoln Sarko

Keller Rohrback LLP

Address of record
1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 3200, Seattle, WA 98101, 206-623-1900
Email
lsarko@kellerrohrback.com
Phone
(206) 623-1900
Fax
Fax 623-3384

Contact details as filed with the court in the cases below.

7
Cases tracked
2 active · 5 settled
$176M
Plaintiff-side recovery
Disclosed settlement funds
—
Defense-side exposure
Resolved in settlements
3
Cases with values
of 7 tracked

Case history

Publicly tracked matters where this attorney is listed as counsel.

Plaintiff counselActive litigation — no settlement yet

Binance Holdings RICO Class Action

A proposed class action against Binance Holdings LTD, apparently asserting claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The docket indicates the case has been consolidated with another case and that BAM Trading Services Inc. has appeared as a defendant. The specific alleged misconduct is not described in the available docket text.

Filed
May 14, 2025
Represents
Charles Baratta, Jason Rappaport, Donald Douty, Thomas Viola, Hyacinth Ahuruonye
Plaintiff counselActive litigation — no settlement yet

Binance Holdings Racketeering Class Action

A proposed class action was filed against Binance Holdings Ltd by several individual plaintiffs. The case is docketed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and recent filings address scheduling and vacating an order compelling arbitration. These are allegations in a newly filed case, not proven facts.

Filed
May 7, 2025
Represents
Philip Martin, T.F. Tang, Yatin Khanna, Charles Baratta, Jason Rappaport, Donald Douty, Thomas Viola, Hyacinth Ahuruonye
Plaintiff counselSettled — claims closed

ZF-TRW Airbag Control Units Products Liability Settlement

Consumer plaintiffs allege that defective Airbag Control Units in approximately 12.3 million vehicles may cause airbags to fail to inflate in the event of a crash. Settlements have been reached with multiple vehicle manufacturers including Toyota, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, and Kia.

Settlement fund
$62M
Claim deadline
Represents
Thomas Copley, Marvin Coyner, Elizabeth Evans, Regina Heilman-Ryan, Steve Keister, Desiree Meyer
Plaintiff counselSettled — claims closed

Theranos & Walgreens Blood Testing Settlement

Theranos claimed to have revolutionary blood-testing technology that could perform hundreds of health tests with a single pinprick, but the technology did not work. The company partnered with Walgreens to market the product in stores, but thousands of test results were invalidated or called into question. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and COO Ramesh Balwani were criminally convicted for the fraud.

Settlement fund
$44M
Claim deadline
Represents
R.C.
Plaintiff counselSettled — claims closed

Las Flores Pipeline System Settlement

Property owners alleged that Plains All American Pipeline failed to use, operate, and maintain the Las Flores Pipeline System (formerly Lines 901 and 903) for many years, causing the easement contracts and right-of-way grants to terminate. The pipeline company has agreed to settle these claims and also agreed not to install a second pipeline and to make reasonable efforts to obtain governmental approval for automatic shutoff valves.

Settlement fund
$70M
Claim deadline
Represents
Grey Fox, LLC, MAZ Properties, Inc., Bean Blossom, LLC, Winter Hawk, LLC
Plaintiff counselSettled — claims closed

Liquid Aluminum Sulfate Antitrust Settlement

Major manufacturers of liquid aluminum sulfate (Alum) allegedly engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy from 1997 through at least February 2011 to artificially inflate the price of this chemical used in municipal water treatment, causing municipalities and their taxpayers to overpay millions of dollars.

Claim deadline
Represents
City of Scottsdale, Phoenix, City of
Plaintiff counselSettled — claims closed

Wells Fargo Unauthorized Accounts Settlement

Wells Fargo allegedly victimized its customers by using illegal, fraudulent, and deceptive tactics to open unauthorized accounts and boost sales of banking and financial products. The bank opened unauthorized accounts on a nearly daily basis without customer consent.

Claim deadline
Represents
Shahriar Jabbari, Kaylee Heffelfinger

“Recovery” and “exposure” refer to total disclosed settlement funds in associated cases, not money personally won or lost by an attorney. Settlements generally resolve disputed allegations without a finding that either side won. Data comes from public court dockets and may be incomplete.