About Me

Jeffrey Kaliel is a prominent lawyer with more than 15 years of expertise in the legal field and more than a decade of experience managing complex class action lawsuits. Kaliel is highly regarded as an attorney and a veteran who was honored for his service with numerous medals and commendations.

present function and responsibilities

Kaliel is pursuing many large lawsuits through the KalielGold firm, a frontrunner in high-stakes class action litigation in federal and state courts. The firm's history is littered with triumphs against predatory financial practices and settlements and verdicts in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Kaliel Gold, a law company situated in Washington, DC, represents clients in civil cases involving a wide range of issues, including but not limited to: overdraft fees, consumer protections, personal injury, medical malpractice, insurance fraud, bank fraud, false advertising, and much more.

Background in Your Profession

Jeffrey Kaliel served in the U.S. Army before he went to law school and established a thriving legal firm. He was a Staff Sergeant who had trained in airborne and mountain combat before being deployed to Iraq in 2003, during the second Iraq war.

Kaliel was an honors program participant at the Department of Homeland Security, where he worked in the department's appellate litigation branch. To preparation for a congressional investigation, he also helped with an internal examination into the department's handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In addition, he worked as a special U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, where he focused on border offenses.

Learning the Law and History

Kaliel received his bachelor's degree in political science from Amherst College in the year 2000. He earned a degree with honors and went on to study philosophy at Cambridge University in England for a year. He went to Yale Law School to receive his J.D. in 2005.

Competence and Work History in the Field

Kaliel has led several high-profile and consequential cases during the course of his career. He has served as lead class counsel in landmark state and federal class action lawsuits, prevailing on numerous contest class certification motions and successfully defending dispositive motions while employing a wide range of data-intensive, high-tech, and scientific methods and processes throughout the discovery process and beyond. Partnerships with economists, IT specialists, and engineers have broadened the breadth of his knowledge, allowing for the creation of precise models highlighting the damages in instances. Kaliel has shown he can effectively connect and explain complex ideas in compelling presentations, which is crucial in high-stakes litigation.

Fighting against predatory financial companies and the real-world effects they leave behind is a personal passion of Jeffrey's. His present caseload is full of lawsuits against financial institutions and their affiliates that engage in the most aggressive lending practices. Similarly, he opposes financial products and services that prey on the poorest people in America. Few affordable, high-quality services are available to this demographic.

Fighting consumer issues in this space necessitates developing financial expertise on par with many in the field while maintaining the ability to convey it in an approachable, easily digestible way for individuals hearing a case, in addition to mastering the legal arguments necessary to convey the technical merits of a case.

Similarities exist between cases involving consumer safety and protection. The consumer protection statutes are many, extensive, and often difficult to decipher. Finding the legal arguments that are most applicable to a case requires careful attention to detail and extensive research. Moving from a single consumer to a class-action lawsuit increases the complexity of the case and the stakes involved.
Kaliel thinks it's worth it when businesses change their practices after a successful civil lawsuit and pay money to compensate harmed customers.

Giving to charity and other acts of philanthropy

 Jeffrey Kaliel has spent his legal career helping organizations fight for the truth and laying the groundwork for the kind of financial pressure that can lead to significant social change. His contributions to the humane movement, Compassion over Killing, and the National Consumers League are particularly noteworthy. Through the courts, these groups pushed for honest food and animal product labeling.

Awards

Based on his accomplishments, Kaliel was named one of the Rising Stars Super Lawyers in Washington, DC in 2015. The selection process used by the Super Lawyers publication is rigorous.

Activities Enjoyed in One's Free Time

Outside of the law, Kaliel enjoys taking his family on trips around the greater Washington, DC, area.