Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP, a national plaintiff side law firm, is pleased to announce the February 2025 promotion of two new additional partners. Esther Lee Bylsma and J. Caleigh MacDonald join a growing partner tier at the firm.

Esther Lee Bylsma

Esther Lee Bylsma has extensive experience representing plaintiffs in complex civil litigation. Esther’s practice focuses on representing employees in collective and class actions. Prior to joining Schneider Wallace, Esther represented shareholders in M&A and federal securities class actions throughout the country.  Esther serves on the Board of the California Asian Pacific American Bar Association, is a founding Board member of the San Diego Asian American Legal Education Fund, is the Past President of the Pan Asian Lawyers of San Diego. She is also a member of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association.

J. Caleigh MacDonald

J. Caleigh MacDonald has over a decade of experience in complex antitrust litigation and qui tam actions. He is currently a member of the team at SWCK that represents some of the world’s largest insurance companies in antitrust actions against large pharmaceutical manufacturers. Caleigh began his career in antitrust representing fighters in the UFC alleging monopolization claims for their services under section 2 of the Sherman Act, and direct purchasers of capacitors from an international price-fixing cartel.

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky has been established in California with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993. The firm represents both individuals and institutional clients such as health insurers and municipalities in complex civil litigation. In addition to the Los Angeles office, the firm maintains a nationwide practice with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Texas, Puerto Rico. Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky handles class actions in the areas of employment, disability access, civil rights, and consumer protection. It also litigates cases in the fields of antitrust law, ERISA, and qui tam. The firm’s practice focuses on impact litigation with a goal of remedying systemic violations of the law in employment, civil rights, public accommodations, consumer fraud, antitrust, and ERISA cases.

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