Alexandra S. Bernay

Partner

“I’m proud to represent businesses and individuals wronged by corporate greed and fraud. No firm is better equipped for the fight.”

Office

San Diego
T: (619) 231-1058

Alexandra Bernay specializes in antitrust and unfair competition class-action litigation.  She represents businesses and individuals in lawsuits challenging unlawful price-fixing, monopolization, false advertising, and unfair and deceptive business practices.

Alexandra S. Bernay is a partner in the San Diego office of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, where she specializes in antitrust and unfair competition class-action litigation. Ms. Bernay has also worked on some of the Firm's largest securities fraud class actions, including the Enron litigation, which recovered an unprecedented $7.2 billion for investors.

Ms. Bernay's current practice focuses on the prosecution of antitrust and consumer fraud cases. She is on the litigation team prosecuting the In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation, which is pending in the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Bernay is also a member of the team prosecuting The Apple iPod iTunes Anti-Trust Litigation in the Northern District of California as well as the litigation team involved in the In re Digital Music Antitrust Litigation, among other cases in the Firm's antitrust practice area.

She is also actively involved in the consumer action on behalf of bank customers who were overcharged for debit card transactions. That case, In re Checking Account Overdraft Litigation, is pending in the Southern District of Florida.

Professional Affiliations

American Bar Association, Antitrust Section

Member, California Bar Association, Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section

Member, Consumer Attorneys of California

Education

University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., 2000, magna cum laude

  • Order of the Coif
  • Comments Editor, San Diego Law Review
  • Representative of the university's Public Interest Law Foundation at the national conference

Humboldt State University, B.A., 1997, Journalism

  • Received the Society of Professional Journalists Outstanding Graduate Award

Admissions

  • California
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • United States District Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois