James Brennan Tsang

Staff Attorney*

Chicago
[email protected]

I graduated cum laude with a degree in political science from St. Francis College and received my J.D. cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law. I handle consumer, privacy-related, and tech-related class actions, as well as general litigation.

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A Tribe Called Quest
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www.youtube.com
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On the Beach
FAVORITE GAME
Doubles

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Desired Superpower
Cups of Coffee
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If you weren’t a lawyer you probably would be:

A tennis player

Curriculum Vitae

JAMES BRENNAN TSANG is a Staff Attorney at Edelson PC where his practice focuses on consumer, privacy, and tech-related class actions.

James is currently litigating nearly a dozen consumer class actions on behalf of employees under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) for their employers’ and timekeepers’ failure to comply with the Act’s notice and consent requirements before collecting, storing, and in some instances disclosing their biometric data. James is also litigating several Telephone Consumer Protection Act cases brought by recipients harassing debt-collection calls as well as spam text messages.

During law school, James was a member of the Immigration Clinic and served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Joe B. McDade of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

Awards and Honors:

CALI Award for receiving the highest grade in Doing Business in Japan

*James will sit for the Illinois Bar in October 2020.

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