Johnny Shaw

Johnny is a passionate advocate for consumers harmed by abuses of corporate power. He began working on class-action litigation as paralegal and continued in the role full time while he attended Fordham Law School’s evening program. Johnny was on law review at Fordham and published a student note in its December 2019 issue titled Avoiding Market Definition Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. He graduated magna cum laude in 2021.
Prior to K&S, Johnny spent the early part of his career representing plaintiffs in large-scale, cutting-edge antitrust class actions. He has taken depositions of corporate executives, served on multiple trial teams, and worked extensively with expert economists. Johnny believes strongly that private litigation plays a vital role in enforcing consumer protection and competition laws. He is continually searching for new strategies to use the tools available to him for effective advocacy on behalf of consumers.
Johnny’s advocacy for consumers is reflected in his most recent pro bono representation of clients seeking to restore perpetual care at a community cemetery.
Experience
Some of Johnny’s representative matters include the following:
- Investors in mass arbitrations alleging fraud and various violations of consumer protection laws against major crypto-asset exchange.
- Investors in cases against major crypto-asset exchanges arising out of unauthorized access to their accounts.
- A class of aerospace workers who alleged they were underpaid due to an illegal wage-fixing agreement.
- Prescription drug purchasers who overpaid for their prescriptions because of patent manipulation and unlawful pay-for-delay agreements among pharmaceutical companies.
- Subscribers to streaming services who paid inflated subscription fees as result of collusion among service providers.
Education
J.D., Fordham University School of Law 2021, magna cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Fordham Law Review
- Research assistant to Professors Jed Shugerman and Joseph Landau
- B.A., McGill University, 2010, International Development Studies
Admitted to Practice
- New York
- U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York