Alexander Terepka

Overview

Alex Terepka is a founding partner of the firm. For more than a decade, he has handled his clients’ most sophisticated business litigation and class action matters in courts across the country. He served as lead counsel defending companies in dozens of class actions in federal courts nationwide without ever having a class paid. Alex also has extensive trial experience, including client victories in all three jury trials he first-chaired, and substantial appellate experience — briefing, arguing, and winning multiple appeals in federal circuit courts around the country, including Herdocia–Jarquin v. Garland, 843 Fed. App’x 929 (9th Cir. 2021).

Recent highlights include complete victories for his clients in consumer class actions: Fox v. Ritz-Carlton, 345 F.R.D. 358 (S.D. Fla. 2024) (denying certification); Coleman v. Humana, 2023 WL 3485242 (E.D.N.C. 2023) (dismissing a consumer privacy class action with prejudice); Moledina v. Marriott, 635 F. Supp. 3d 941 (C.D. Cal. 2022) (ending a consumer privacy class action at the pleading stage in a first-in-nation order); and Conner v. Fox Rehab. Servs., 2022 WL 4080761 (E.D. Pa. 2022) (denying certification).

These accomplishments have led the federal judiciary to repeatedly recognize Alex’s nationwide expertise in defending companies against consumer class actions.

Prior to founding WT, Alex worked at two elite law firms and clerked for two federal judges: Judge Richard Clifton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Chief Judge George King of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He attended law school at the University of Michigan, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Michigan Law Review, graduated magna cum laude, and was inducted to the Order of the Coif. Prior to law school, Alex attended Cornell University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and completed double majors in chemistry and history.