Exhibit B (Biography of Pessah Law Group and Chelin Law Firm Attorneys) (Dkt. 245-2, S.D. Fla.)

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Exhibit B (Document 245-2) in Case 1:21-md-02989-CMA, entered on the FLSD docket 04/26/2021, is the Biography of Pessah Law Group and Chelin Law Firm Attorneys. It states that Maurice D. Pessah is the founder of Pessah Law Group, PC, has been named a Super Lawyer Rising Star for eight consecutive years (2013 - 2021), and that PLG was one of the first firms in California to pursue claims against Robinhood Financial for its decision to restrict trading of certain securities like Gamestop (GME). It also describes Summer Benson as an associate attorney at Pessah Law Group, PC and states that Stuart Chelin, Of Counsel at Pessah Law Group, was a litigator in Toronto, Canada before being admitted to practice in California.

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Case 1:21-md-02989-CMA Document 245-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/26/2021 Page 1 of 6

EXHIBIT B

(Biography of Pessah Law Group and Chelin Law Firm Attorneys)
Education

University of California, San Diego
B.A. Political Science/International
Relations

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
(Sciences-Po)
Dipl6me International

Southwestern Law School
J.D., 2010 (SCALE Program)
Trial Advocacy Honors Program
Moot Court Honors Program
(First Place Oralist and Best
Alternate Writer)

Awards and Honors

e Super Lawyers, California Rising
Star (2013-2021)

e Top Employment Lawyers (eBoss
Watch 2012)

age 2 of 6

Maurice D. Pessah is the founder of Pessah Law Group, PC. Maurice
is a highly sought-after counselor and litigator whose legal acumen
and personal style have earned him the gratitude of clients, the
respect of adversaries, and recognition in the Los Angeles legal
community.

For the past ten years, Maurice has served his clients with equal
skillin the courtroom and around the negotiating table. For eight
consecutive years (2013 - 2021), Maurice has been named as a Super
Lawyer Rising Star, a peer-based award reserved only for the top
2% of lawyers under 40 in Southern California.

Early in his career, Maurice was particularly noted for his effective
representation of a media company and an amateur art collector in
a dispute with the estate of late nature photographer, Ansel Adams.
The case involved several novel intellectual property issues and
received widespread media attention in the Wall Street Journal,
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and in various international
media outlets such as CNN and BBC. Just two years into his legal
career, Maurice was selected by his predecessor firm to argue a
case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.

In 2017, Maurice was invited to join a group of powerful plaintiff's
attorneys pursuing claims against Wells Fargo bank on behalf of a
class of aggrieved employees who refused to participate in the
bank’s opening of unauthorized accounts. The case received
widespread coverage

In 2019, Maurice secured a settlement on behalf of a class of
employees pursuing claims against one of the largest consumer
goods distributors in North America.

Recently, PLG was one of the first firms in California to pursue
claims against Robinhood Financial for its decision to restrict
trading of certain securities like Gamestop (GME), AMC
Entertainment Holdings (AMC), Blackberry (BB), Nokia (NOK) and
American Airlines (AAL). (https://money.yahoo.com/california-
class-action-lawsuit-against-130000392.html).

Maurice is admitted to practice before all California state and
federal courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the District
of Colorado.

During law school, Maurice was a member of both the Trial Advocacy
and Moot Court honors programs and was named First Place Oralist
and Best Alternate Writer.

Prior to law school, Maurice lived in Paris where he pursued a post-
baccalaureate degree in International Relations at the prestigious
Institut d'Etudes Politiques, more commonly known as Sciences-Po.
Upon completing his studies in Paris, Maurice worked at an NGO
where he served as a political liaison and accompanied multiple
European Union delegations to the Middle East.

Maurice is fluent in French, Farsi and Spanish.
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Education

e University of Florida
B.S. Public Relations,(2014)

e American University Washington
College of Law
Juris Doctor (2018)
Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual
Property Law Clinic
Program on Information Justice and
Intellectual Property

Bar and Court Admissions
e 2019, California
Representative Matters

e Inre January 2021 Short Squeeze
Litigation

e Inre Volkswagen “Clean Diesel"
Marketing, Sales Practices, and
Products Liability Litigation

e In re Ford Motor Co. DPS6 Powershift
Transmission Product Liability
Litigation

Summer Benson is an associate attorney at Pessah Law Group,
PC. Summer's practice reflects her passion for advocacy and
problem-solving. Summer pursued her legal education at
American University Washington College of Law where she served
as a student attorney for the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual
Property Law Clinic, and as a dean's fellow for the Program on
Information Justice and Intellectual Property.

Prior to joining PLG, Summer worked as a litigation associate for a
large consumer protection law firm, where she handled all
aspects of civil litigation.

Summer recently secured a complete dismissal for a high-profile
PLG client in a contentious film financing dispute. Summer is
admitted to practice in California and before all Federal District
courts in this state.
Education

e McGill University Faculty of Law

Stuart Chelin is Of Counsel at Pessah Law Group.

Prior to being admitted to practice in California, Stuart was a litigator in
Toronto, Canada.

Immediately after being called to the bar in 1993, Stuart joined the law
firm of Solmon Rothbart Goodman LLP (“SRG”) in Toronto, Canada as an
associate, eventually becoming a partner in the firm. He spent over a
decade with SRG engaged in a practice that emphasized
corporate/commercial litigation that often involved highly
sophisticated matters. Stuart's experience includes acting for both
plaintiffs and defendants in banking disputes, creditor/debtor and
mortgage litigation, breaches of fiduciary duty, partnership and
shareholder disputes, corporate oppression remedies, fraud,
receivership and bankruptcy matters, injunctive relief, employment law
cases and defamation.

Generally, Stuart's practice with SRG involved small or medium sized
clients, often embroiled in corporate/commercial disputes with larger
institutional opponents. Engaging in the court system against much
larger adversaries, and against much larger law firms, his practice
required developing sound and aggressive strategies and the
deployment of available rule-permitted tactics. Stuart's litigation
career has involved his acting on behalf of clients against top global
banks, a leading global insurance company, top international
accounting firms, a national public broadcaster of radio and television
(CBC), Canada’s highest weekly circulation newspaper, a major
European luxury automobile manufacturer and a national police force
(the RCMP).

Stuart was a top ten graduate (6th overall) in 1991 from the prestigious
Faculty of Law at McGill University (ranked in 2018 as the 13th best
school for the study of law worldwide by Times Higher Education: World
University Rankings). He graduated with the distinction of Upper
Second Class Honors. In the Province of Ontario, Canada, law graduates
are required to spend a year in an apprenticeship, called articling,
before being called to the bar. Stuart's articling experience, across a
variety of practice areas, was with a major law firm now known as
Fasken, with over 700 lawyers and international offices in Canada,
Europe, Asia and Africa. He was called to the bar as amember of the
Law Society of Ontario in 1993. Early in his career, Stuart also spent
time as Associate General In-House Counsel with Cott Corporation, a
multi-national, publicly trade company.

Stuart was admitted to practice in California in 2018, after passing the
California Bar Exam on his first attempt. His practice focuses on
commercial litigation.
Education

e Columbia College, Columbia
University in the City of New York
B.A. Philosophy

e Columbia Law School
J.D., 2018
Columbia Journal of Law and
Social Problems
Environmental Law Clinic

Bar and Court Admissions

e 2019, New York
e 2021, California

Representative Matters

e In Re January 2021 Short Squeeze
Litigation, MDL No. 2989

e In Re National Prescription Opioid
Litigation, MDL No. 2804

e In Re Roundup Products Liability
Litigation, MDL No. 2741

Mr. Sunshine joined Pessah Law Group in 2021 after serving asa
litigation associate in the New York office of one of the largest
consumer law firms in the world.

Jason has a deep passion for taking on powerful and entrenched
interests that have wronged everyday people. He is a litigator with
diverse practice experience and a particular focus on complex
litigation.

Jason is extensively involved in litigation against Robinhood for the
January “short squeeze” that caused untold losses to thousands of
retail investors (In re January 2021 Short Squeeze Trading Litigation,
MDL No 21-2989).

Prior to joining PLG, Jason practiced at a nationwide law plaintiffs’
firm, where he litigated product liability cases and mass torts. In
that role, Jason had a front-row seat to some of the most widely
publicized cases of the decade. (In Re National Prescription Opiate
Litigation, MDL No. 2804)(In Re Roundup Products Liability
Litigation, MDL No. 2741).

Upon completing his undergraduate studies at Columbia University,
Jason served as a Special Assistant at the New York State
Department of Financial Services, where he investigated LIBOR
manipulation by several large banks. The investigation ended witha
historic settlement, earning a much-needed windfall for the state's
coffers. In law school, Jason spent his first-year summer at the New
York County District Attorney's Office assisting in the investigation
and prosecution of felony drug crimes. He got his first taste of
plaintiff's work as a summer associate at the New York-based civil
rights firm of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP. There, he
participated in a range of civil rights cases, from helping an
undocumented minor secure legal status to investigating a wrongful
murder conviction.

Jason graduated from Columbia University, cum laude, in 2014 witha
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. He went on to Columbia Law School,
where he joined the Environmental Law Clinic and the Columbia
Journal of Law and Social Problems, receiving his Juris Doctor in
May 2018. A recent transplant to Los Angeles, Jason was born and
raised in New York City. In addition to his job, Jason is a voracious
reader with wide-ranging interests and a passion for learning.

Jason is admitted to practice in both California and New York.
Case 1:21-md-02989-CMA

Education

e University of Southern California
B.A. Philosophy, Politics &
Law, cum laude
Presidential Scholarship
Vice President, Phi Alpha Delta
Pre-Law Fraternity

e UCLA School of Law
J.D., 2017 Dean’s Scholarship
Research Assistant, Prof. Sung
Hui Kim (2015); Prof. Daniel
Bussel (2015-2016)

Bar and Court Admissions

e 2017, California

Michael Morris-Nussbaum has been an associate attorney at Pessah
Law Group, PC since June 2019. At PLG, Michael has obtained
substantial settlements on behalf of numerous clients, including A-
list entertainers, in a variety of intellectual property and
employment disputes. Prior to joining Pessah Law Group, Michael
practiced criminal law and civil litigation at The Altman Law Group,
where his cases achieved record-setting verdicts under California’s
Song-Beverly

Act. (Nolan v. Ford Motor Co., Case no. RIC1307491 achieved a verdict
of $8.2 million, one of the highest consumer law verdicts in the
state).

Michael graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics &
Law from the University of Southern California. At USC, Mr. Morris-
Nussbaum served as Vice President of the Alpha Delta chapter of
Phi Alpha Delta, the country’s largest professional law fraternity. He
then attended the UCLA School of Law on a Dean's Scholarship,
where he worked as a research assistant to Professors Sung Hui Kim
and Daniel Bussel. Michael's research contributions have been
credited in multiple national publications such as the American
Bankruptcy Institute Law Review and the Fordham Law Review.


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