Ira Kasdan is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, a national law firm, where he brings more than 40 years of litigation experience to complex federal matters. He has served as lead counsel in several significant class actions against the Social Security Administration, including Greenberg v. Colvin in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — which set the precedent for the award of Section 406(b) attorney fees in class actions — and Steigerwald v. Berryhill, litigated in the Northern District of Ohio and the Sixth Circuit. He is currently co-lead counsel in a third certified class action pending against the SSA in the Eastern District of Virginia. Mr. Kasdan is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland bars, various federal circuit courts, and the Supreme Court of the United States.