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Biography
Zoë Seaman-Grant is an Associate in the Chicago office, and is part of the Firm’s Consumer Protection practice group, with an emphasis on healthcare litigation. Prior to joining Berger Montague, Zoë was an associate in the Class Actions practice group at Edelson PC in Chicago, where she represented consumers and individuals who experienced data privacy violations. Zoë was appointed class counsel in several lawsuits brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, helped secure millions of dollars in damages on behalf of consumers and employees harmed by companies’ lax data privacy, and played a pivotal role in defeating summary judgment in a first-of-its-kind class action brought on behalf of wildfire victims. She has extensive experience representing individuals and class members in federal and state courts across the country.
Zoë graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as an associate editor of the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. During law school, she spent her summers with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and the Torts Division of the Office of the New York Attorney General. In 2021, she published a comment in the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law titled “Title IX and the Alleged Victimization of Men: Applying Twombly to Federal Title IX Lawsuits Brought by Men Accused of Sexual Assault.”
Prior to law school, Zoë worked as a literacy tutor in public elementary schools in Washington, DC. She graduated from Bates College with a degree in Women’s and Gender Studies. During her time at Bates, she finished as one of the top four teams at the 2017 World Universities Debating Championship and was named the top speaker at the 2017 U.S. Universities Debating Championship.
Prominent Judgements and Settlements
- Gutierrez v. Senior Lifestyle Corporation, et al., 2017-CH-11314 (Cir. Ct. Cook Cnty.). Appointed class counsel in BIPA class action brought on behalf of employees who had their fingerprints collected by their employer, ultimately securing a settlement that provided the higher per-person relief in a BIPA class action with over 2,000 class members to date.
- ACLU et al. v. Clearview AI, Inc., 2020-CH-04353 (Cir. Ct. Cook Cnty.). Helped secure injunctive relief settlement against Clearview AI, a facial database provider, on behalf of numerous nonprofits which required Clearview AI to stop making its database available to any entities in Illinois for five years, and permanently enjoined Clearview AI from providing its database to private individuals and businesses nationwide.
- James, et al. v. PacifiCorp, et al., 20-cv-33885 (Cir. Ct. Multnomah Cnty.). Represented class of victims of the 2021 Labor Day wildfires in Oregon in an action which has led to jury verdicts of millions of dollars in damages to date.
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