L. Timothy Fisher

L. Timothy Fisher is the Managing Partner of Bursor & Fisher’s California office. He has an active practice in consumer class actions and complex business litigation and has also successfully handled a large number of civil appeals.

Mr. Fisher has been actively involved in numerous cases that resulted in multi-million dollar recoveries for consumers and investors.  Mr. Fisher has handled cases involving a wide range of issues including nutritional labeling, health care, telecommunications, corporate governance, unfair business practices and consumer fraud.  With his partner Scott A. Bursor, Mr. Fisher has tried five class action jury trials, all of which produced successful results. In Thomas v. Global Vision Products, Mr. Fisher obtained a jury award of $50,024,611 — the largest class action award in California in 2009 and the second-largest jury award of any kind.  In 2019, Mr. Fisher served as trial counsel with Mr. Bursor and his partner Yeremey Krivoshey in Perez v. Rash Curtis & Associates, where the jury returned a verdict for $267 million in statutory damages under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Mr. Fisher was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1997.  He is also a member of the bars of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Districts of California, the Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the Eastern District of Missouri.  Mr. Fisher taught appellate advocacy at John F. Kennedy University School of Law in 2003 and 2004.  In 2010, he contributed jury instructions, a verdict form and comments to the consumer protection chapter of Justice Elizabeth A. Baron’s California Civil Jury Instruction Companion Handbook (West 2010).  In January 2014, Chief Judge Claudia Wilken of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California appointed Mr. Fisher to a four-year term as a member of the Court’s Standing Committee on Professional Conduct.

Mr. Fisher received his Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall at the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.  While in law school, he was an active member of the Moot Court Board and participated in moot court competitions throughout the United States.  In 1994, Mr. Fisher received an award for Best Oral Argument in the first year moot court competition.

In 1992, Mr. Fisher graduated with highest honors from the University of California at Berkeley and received a degree in political science.  Prior to graduation, he authored an honors thesis for Professor Bruce Cain entitled “The Role of Minorities on the Los Angeles City Council.”  He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.