Bio

Mr. Jodlowski is an attorney in Scott+Scott’s San Diego office.

At Scott+Scott, he focuses on cases involving securities fraud, antitrust, competition, consumer fraud, and other high-stakes financial matters.  Representing investors and shareholders, he has recovered nearly $2 billion for clients around the world.

A litigator with more than two decades of experience, Mr. Jodlowski has successfully prosecuted complex matters across a wide range of industries, devoting his career to detecting and remedying fraud and anticompetitive activity in financial markets in the United States and abroad.  He has served as lead counsel in numerous complex litigation matters.

Mr. Jodlowski has extensive experience in matters before trial and appellate courts and has repeatedly been recognized by his peers for his work.  For the past three years, LawDragon honored Mr. Jodlowski by naming him one of the top 500 Plaintiff Financial Lawyers. Super Lawyers named Steve a “Rising Star” for five straight years.  He was also named a finalist for Consumer Attorneys of California’s Attorney of the Year Award for his work in Negrete v. Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America and was recognized by the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Awards for the category of Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice. Based in part on his work in the ISDAfix and SSA Bonds antitrust litigation, his antitrust group was named by Law360 as Competition Practice Group of the Year for 2019 and recognized by The National Law Journal as a finalist in its list of 2020 Elite Trial Lawyers in the antitrust category.

Highlights

  • Recognized in Commercial Litigation, The Best Lawyers in America® (2026)
  • 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers, Lawdragon (2024-2026)
  • California Super Lawyers Honoree, Super Lawyers (2024)
  • Elite Trial Lawyers in Antitrust, The National Law Journal (2020)
  • Practice Group of the Year in Competition, Law360 (2019)
  • Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine (2015-2019)
  • Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice, American Antitrust Institute (2018)
  • Finalist, Attorney of the Year Award, Consumer Attorneys of California (2015)

Admissions

  • State of California
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court, Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Representative Cases

  • Kempen Int’l Funds et al. V. Syneos Health Inc., No. 1:23-cv-08848 (S.D.N.Y) (served as lead counsel)
  • Saleh v. AstraZeneca PLC, et al., No. 1:25-cv-04088 (S.D.N.Y) (served as lead counsel)
  • Gehring et al. v. American Portfolios Advisors, Inc., et al, No. 2:25-cv-00367 (D. Ariz)
  • ISDAfix Benchmark Antitrust Litig. (Alaska Elec. Pension Fund v. Bank of Am., et al) ($504.5 million in aggregate settlements)
  • In re SSA Bonds Antitrust Litig.($95.5 million in aggregate settlements)
  • Dahl v. Bain Capital Partners, LLC ($590.5 million in aggregate settlements)
  • 1-800 Contacts Antitrust Litig. (Thompson v. 1-800 Contacts, Inc. et al.) ($40 million in aggregate settlements)
  • Negrete v. Allianz Life Ins. Co. of N. Am. (over $250 million in cash payments and other benefits to deferred annuity holders)
  • In re Am. Equity Annuity Practices & Sales Litig. ($129 million in cash payments and other benefits to deferred annuity holders)
  • In re Midland Nat’l Life Ins. Co. Annuity Sales Practices Litig. ($79 million in cash payments and other benefits to deferred annuity holders)
  • Negrete v. Fidelity & Guar. Life Ins. Co. (over $50 million in cash payments and other benefits to deferred annuity holders)
  • City of Pontiac Gen. Emps.’ Ret. Sys. v. Dell Inc. ($25 million settlement)

Education

  • California Western School of Law, J.D., cum laude (J.D. 2005)
  • University of Central Oklahoma (B.M. 2002)