Julie Lynn Fieber

Julie L. Fieber is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, practicing in a wide range of civil litigation areas including environmental claims with an emphasis on groundwater contamination, complex commercial disputes, personal injury and construction defects. Julie has over twenty years’ experience in high stakes litigation at both the state and federal level.

Julie is active in the community, serving as a board member for the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, and in the past as a mentor with BALIF (Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom). She has also been involved in various pro bono housing matters working with the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County. Julie is a past recipient of the Fair Shake Award from the Western Center on Law and Poverty in recognition of her excellent work on Cruz v. Sierra Corporate Management, a class action on behalf of low-income residents of a Redwood City mobile home park over illegal and fraudulent rental practices by the park owner.

Julie graduated summa cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law. At USF, she served on Law Review, was a Dean’s Scholar, and won Cali Awards for being the top student in torts, civil procedure, contracts, legal research and writing, criminal law, complex civil procedure, and wills and trusts. Julie also was an extern law clerk to Associate Justice Ming W. Chin of the California Supreme Court (Fall 1998).

Prior to law school, Julie earned a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from U.C. Santa Barbara, where she was a Regent’s Scholar and a member of the women’s crew team. After graduating from UCSB, Julie spent several years working as a consulting engineer for a mix of government and industry clients. Her primary focus was evaluating the environmental impacts of new vehicle technologies and fuels. Highlights included managing the emissions modeling for the Auto-Oil Air Quality Improvement Research Program, an industry-led effort to evaluate the regional environmental impacts of new vehicle fuels and technologies. Julie also conducted community and stakeholder outreach related to a variety of clean air programs, and developed and conducted courses on emissions modeling and regulations.

Julie is also a Registered California Professional Engineer in Chemical Engineering.

Representative Matters:

Julie represents E. & J. Gallo Winery and Gallo Glass Company in a complex contractual dispute with the recycler that supplies them with beneficiated glass cullet, an essential constituent for glass bottle manufacture. The suit is pending in the Eastern District of California.

In spring 2020, Julie obtained final court approval of the settlement in Cruz v. Sierra Corporate Management, a class action on behalf of low-income residents of a Redwood City mobile home park over illegal and fraudulent rental practices by the park owner. Working with the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County and the Western Center on Law and Poverty. The negotiated resolution is the culmination of several years of vigorous litigation to protect the rights of this disadvantaged and vulnerable tenant population.

Julie helped obtain a substantial settlement in a group of lawsuits filed on behalf of individual homeowners in San Francisco’s Millennium Tower – the massive, 58-story condominium building that began to sink and tilt after its construction. The suit alleged fraudulent concealment against the developer, and inverse condemnation and nuisance against the neighboring property owner.

Julie, working with several other firms, represents a putative class of Fresno homeowners in a suit alleging that the City of Fresno’s failure to control fluctuations in the quality of water supplied from a local treatment facility resulted in degradation and damage to residential plumbing.

Julie represented local Kern County farmers in suits arising from groundwater contamination caused by neighboring oil operations. The suits alleged that poor maintenance in combination with reinjection of high saline produced water resulted in contamination of aquifers relied on for local crop irrigation.

Julie successfully brought suit on behalf of a father and his family after the father was attacked during his son’s baseball game by another parent.

Prior to joining Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, Julie handled all aspects of a construction defect case against multiple defendants over defective fire safety systems for The Gap, Inc. After multiple mediations, she obtained full repair costs for the client.

Prior to joining Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, Julie helped represent , Inc. in defamation and securities cases related to hedge fund manipulation and naked short-selling.

CPM Pursuing California Class Action Against Tesla for Allegedly Misleading the Public about its Full Self-Driving Capability Package

Honors & Recognitions

2026 CLAY Award, California Lawyer Attorney of the Year

2024-2026 Lawdragon Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law

2024-2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers

2025-2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers

2026 Northern California Super Lawyers

2018 Fair Shake Award from the Western Center on Law & Poverty

Past recipient of the Wiley W. Manuel Certificate for Pro Bono Legal Services in recognition of pro bono work on behalf of low-income clients

In the News

30 Jun 2026

Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Homeowner Injured by Tracy Warehouse Fire

05 Sep 2025

Ninth Circuit Clarifies Clean Water Act Exemption Protecting the Operations of California Farmers

18 Aug 2025

Court Certifies Damages and Injunctive Relief Classes Against Tesla

10 Feb 2025

Local Dry Cleaner's Lawsuit Alleges Big Oil Companies’ Failure to Clean Up Contamination is Stalling Progress and Putting Walnut Creek Residents at Risk

12 Jun 2024

CPM Attorneys Recognized as 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers

06 Oct 2023

Their children were gunned down at Saugus High. Parents sue for $50 million over ‘preventable’ tragedy

04 Oct 2023

Judge Orders Trial in Saugus High School Shooting Case

08 Sep 2023

Top Maui Law Firm Files Series of Lawsuits on Behalf of Lahaina Fire Victims

23 Mar 2023

Tesla Buyers Ask Calif. Judge To Shut Down 'Full Self Driving'

21 Feb 2023

District Court Grants Summary Judgment in Long Running Clean Water Act Case

12 May 2022

Flood Victim Files Suit Against City of Burlingame Over Neglect and Faulty Water Pump Systems

20 Nov 2020

Parents of Slain Saugus High School Student Sue School District on the Anniversary of 15-Year-Old Gracie Muehlberger's Tragic Death

14 Jun 2018

Western Center on Law and Poverty Honors CPM Partner Julie L. Fieber for Class Action Representation

20 Sep 2017

CPM Files Lawsuit Contesting Rent Increases That Were Not Permitted by Law

10 Feb 2017

CPM Helps First Major Wave of Millennium Tower Individual Owners File Suit

Blog Posts

15 Mar 2017

An Address Like No Other – The Millennium Tower Litigation

14 Mar 2017

A Wrong in Search of a Remedy – Environmental Torts

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BALIF (Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom) Mentor