The final months of the Trump University consumer fraud case were anything but routine. A divisive presidential campaign put the case, which was first filed back in 2010, under a spotlight. Public attention became even more pronounced when then-candidate Donald Trump—a party in the suit— took public aim at the presiding judge’s cultural heritage as a supposed source of bias.
But through it all, the plaintiffs lawyers, led by a team from Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, guided their clients—former Trump University participants alleging they were ripped off to the tune of thousands of dollars—to what U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel called an “extraordinary” eve-of-trial settlement.
