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Who We Are
Matthew P. Bergman
Matthew P. Bergman
Matthew is nationally known for his work in product liability litigation and has recovered over $950 million on behalf of his clients. He has litigated over 1,200 product liability cases, conducted over 25 jury trials, and has been counsel in over 20 reported appellate cases.
Washington Super Lawyers (since 2005)
National Trial Lawyers – Top 100
Political Organizer for the AFL-CIO, Voter Registration and Education Campaigns
Lewis & Clark Law School Distinguished Graduate Award 2009
Laura
Marquez-Garrett
Laura Marquez-Garrett has spent her twenty-year career handling complex litigation matters and business disputes. For the last decade of that, her focus and specialization has been on all things electronic discovery. Laura has served as special discovery counsel for clients and law firms, and has consulted on all manner of data and discovery-related innovations, issues, and disputes.
University of California at Berkeley, B.A., magna cum laude, 1999
Seattle Parkinson’s Project, Former Member of the Board of Directors
Harvard Latino Law Review, Editor-in-Chief (2001-2002)
“Future Star,” Benchmark Litigation (2016-2021)
Madeline
Basha
Madeline joined Social Media Victims Law Center in March 2022 after spending approximately two years at Bergman Draper Oslund Udo as a full-time attorney as well as doing her internship there. She graduated from Linfield College with a bachelor’s degree in political science. In law school, she clerked for Waters Kraus and Paul in Los Angeles for two summers. Through her involvement in these two firms, she focused on and gained invaluable experience in the field of toxic tort litigation. The insights collected from her time there helped stem her passion for holding corporations accountable for the injuries they cause.
Lewis and Clark Law School, 2019
Linfield College, 2016
Glenn S.
Draper
Glenn Draper joined Social Media Victims Law Center in June 2022 after representing victims of mesothelioma and other asbestos-caused diseases since 2004. Glenn was trial counsel for several mesothelioma cases and obtained multi-million-dollar verdicts for his clients. He has taken the depositions of over 300 mesothelioma victims and obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements from the asbestos companies. He joined SMVLC after being outraged by the contents of the Facebook Papers.
Pro Bono Award, National Law Journal, 2000
Innocence Project Northwest
Quiet Hero Award, King County Bar Association, 2001
Washington Law & Politics, Super Lawyer, 2000 – present
Washington Super Lawyers, 2000 – 2022
Sydney
Lottes'
After a stint in insurance litigation, Sydney joined Social Media Victims Law Center in January of 2023. She has not looked back since. Sydney considers herself lucky to have the opportunity contribute to SMVLC’s mission of holding social media companies legally accountable. She hopes to use her legal expertise to, at the very least, help shed light on the stories of SMVLC’s clients.
Sydney attended Lewis & Clark Law School, graduating with honors and in the top 25% of her class. During her time in school, she served as a judicial extern for the Oregon Court of Appeals and a law clerk for a national trial firm. For two years, she worked as a research assistant learning the ins and outs of various complex litigation devices.
When time allows, Sydney enjoys snowboarding, cooking, and spending time with her cat, Kevin.
Lewis & Clark Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2022
Environmental Law Review, Associate Editor (2021-2022)
University of Missouri, 2018
Admissions: California
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Frequently Asked Questions
We only handle cases on a contingent fee basis. This means that we are paid a portion of any recovery obtained in the case and you do not owe us any attorneys’ fees if the lawsuit does not result in a recovery.
Every case is unique. Our attorneys will work with your family to evaluate your potential case and help you evaluate whether filing a lawsuit or other legal proceeding is in your family’s best interest. Generally speaking, the types of cases we handle involve serious mental health effects, including attempted or completed suicide, eating disorders, inpatient mental health treatment, or sexual trafficking/exploitation that was caused by or contributed to through addictive or problematic social media use by teens and young adults.
We are a law firm based near Seattle, WA comprised of lawyers who have spent their entire careers representing victims who have been harmed by dangerous products. We are also parents. Shocked and troubled by the recent revelations about the harm caused to teens and young adults by social media platforms, which powerful technology companies have designed to be highly addictive, Social Media Victims Law Center was launched specifically to help families and children who have suffered serious mental harm or exploitation through social media use to obtain justice.
