Brendan Jarboe serves as counsel at Block & Leviton LLP and his practice focuses on securities litigation and consumer protection.
Among other cases, Brendan is actively litigating on behalf of investors against Nikola (D. Ariz.) for misrepresentations about its hydrogen technology and truck business; Biogen (D. Mass) for misrepresentations about its monoclonal antibody treatment, Aduhelm (aducanumab); as well as NextEra Energy (S.D. Fla); Vintage Wine Estates (D. Nev.); and Monolithic Power Systems (W.D. Wash.).
In the past several years, Brendan has played a critical role on teams that recovered $40 million from Immunomedics (D. N.J.), and $25 million from Lyft, Inc. in litigation arising from its IPO (N.D. Cal.). Brendan has represented multiple whistleblowers in SEC investigations.
Brendan also serves as counsel in a range of consumer and data privacy and protection cases affecting Massachusetts residents—having contributed substantially to litigation resulting in a $16 million class action settlement with Harvard Pilgrim relating to a 2023 data breach and a $15.3 million class action settlement with Shields Health Care relating to a 2022 data breach. Brendan has extensive experience practicing before the Business Litigation Session of the Suffolk Superior Court and has litigated matters before both the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court.
Before joining Block & Leviton, Brendan served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division of the office of Attorney General Maura Healey. Brendan has led teams in dozens of investigations and enforcement actions to address illegal lending, tax fraud, unlawful debt collection, telemarketing scams and violations of data privacy and security laws. Brendan’s work resulted in settlements and judgments for millions of dollars in financial restitution for affected consumers, including a 2018 multi-state settlement with Uber for $148 million for alleged violations of data breach notification laws. Before serving as an Assistant Attorney General, Brendan worked as a litigation associate at Foley Hoag.
Brendan’s pro bono work has involved contributing substantially to the successful resolution of a civil rights class action to protect the SSI benefits of same-sex married couples. Brendan has also represented survivors of domestic violence in state and federal proceedings and unaccompanied minors seeking adjustment of immigration status based on abuse and neglect.
Brendan graduated from Bates College in 2008 and received his law degree, with honors, from Boston University School of Law in 2014, where he was recognized as an Edward F. Hennessey Distinguished Scholar and won the Dean’s Award for Criminal Law.
Brendan is the former head coach of parliamentary debate teams at both Brandeis University and Tufts University.
