Eleanor Shaffer

Phoenix, AZ4 years experience

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About Eleanor Shaffer

Eleanor 'Ellie' J. Shaffer is an Associate Attorney at Gallagher & Kennedy Injury Lawyers in Phoenix, Arizona, focusing on personal injury, wrongful death, and criminal law. She earned her J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 2019 and has been practicing since 2021. Before joining G&K, she worked in New York City at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, representing parents in abuse, neglect, and termination proceedings in Manhattan Family Court. She has partnered with educational groups in Washington, DC to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and worked with the Parent Legislative Action Network in NYC.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Gallagher & Kennedy Injury Lawyers

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$85 millionSettlement

Gallagher & Kennedy's Kevin Neal and Kenneth Ralston served as Arizona's outside counsel and secured an $85 million settlement from Google over the deceptive collection of smartphone users' location data.

Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix, AZ · 2022Class ActionsRead the full story →
$50 million+Settlement

Robert Boatman and co-counsel recovered more than $50 million for Ventura County ranching and farming families whose herds, fencing, rangeland, and groves burned in the 2017 Thomas Fire.

Ventura/Los Angeles County Superior Court, CA · 2022Class ActionsRead the full story →
$17 millionVerdict

A Phoenix jury ordered General Motors to pay $17 million for the wrongful death of a Scottsdale woman crushed by her own pickup, a verdict the Arizona Court of Appeals later set aside over a flawed jury instruction.

Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix, AZ (rev'd & remanded, Ariz. Ct. App. 2003) · 1999Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$5 millionVerdictTop 10 in Arizona · #9

A Pima County jury awarded Jennifer Johe $5 million on May 23, 2019, in her wrongful death suit against the Sierra Tucson treatment center. Her son Steven, 20, had been admitted in April 2014 for substance addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder and died of acute drug toxicity within days. Robert Boatman represented the family at trial.

Pima County Superior Court, Tucson, Arizona · 2019Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$3.6 millionVerdict

Gallagher & Kennedy's Robert Boatman and Mark O'Connor served as lead plaintiffs' counsel in the Bard IVC filter MDL, and the first federal bellwether trial in Phoenix ended with a $3.6 million verdict, including $2 million in punitive damages, for Sherr-Una Booker.

U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (Phoenix) · 2018Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Gonzaga University School of Law
J.D., 2019

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Arizona

Awards & recognition

The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2023)
Super Lawyers (Arizona Rising Stars)
Pro Bono Distinction, Gonzaga University School of Law

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.