Overview
Zach Fields represents plaintiffs and defendants across the country in a diverse array of complex commercial disputes. His practice spans antitrust, breach of contract, products liability, shareholder rights, energy, and other business-critical issues. He has built a reputation for helping clients navigate novel legal questions, including precedent-setting litigation involving artificial intelligence, while securing significant victories in trial and appellate courts nationwide.
Zach takes an active role in every stage of the litigation lifecycle. He has argued appeals and trial court motions, led discovery, taken and defended depositions, examined witnesses at trial and in arbitration, and drafted successful dispositive and appellate briefs in state and federal courts across the country. His client base encompasses industry leaders, small businesses, consumer classes, and individuals alike.
LANDMARK RESULTS
Most recently, Zach argued and won a precedential appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, securing the revival of a prospective antitrust class action challenging the use of AI-powered pricing by Atlantic City casinos. The decision marked the first federal appellate opinion addressing horizontal conspiracy claims arising from AI-facilitated price-fixing. You can listen to his argument here, read more on the win here, with additional coverage from Law360, Bloomberg Law, the New Jersey Law Journal, MLex, NJ.com, and the Global Competition Review. For the victory, Zach was named a Litigator Runner-Up of the Week by AmLaw and a “Legal Lion” of the Week by Law360.
Earlier this year, Zach secured summary judgment in the Delaware Court of Chancery restoring equity worth tens of millions of dollars to an affordable housing investor. In another high-profile matter, Zach represents the Chairman of Planet Hollywood International and his affiliated businesses in nine-figure litigation against YouTube’s largest creator, MrBeast, concerning his online disparagement and breaches of contract for failure to promote a joint business.
Zach is equally committed to his pro bono practice. As co-lead trial counsel, he secured complete relief for an LGBTQ Honduran asylum seeker following a week-long immigration trial, examining fact and expert witnesses and prevailing on every claim for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture.
BAKGROUND
Before joining Susman Godfrey, Zach served as a law clerk to Judge Andy Hurwitz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Ronnie Abrams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic and received the John Fletcher Caskey Prize for best trial advocacy, the Thurman Arnold Prize as the law school’s top moot court oral advocate, and the Potter Stewart Prize for best brief and presentation. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he helped lead his team to the American Mock Trial Association National Championship.
Prior to joining Susman Godfrey, Zach practiced at another nationally-recognized trial boutique, where he represented pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in complex products liability litigation. Before law school, he worked as a litigation analyst at a large law firm, supporting trial teams across a wide range of commercial matters.
Notable Representations
- Cornish-Adebiyi, et al. v. Caesars’ Entertainment, Inc., et al. (D. NJ, 3d Cir.) Argued and won precedential appeal before the Third Circuit, securing reversal of the dismissal of a proposed antitrust class action alleging that Atlantic City casino hotels conspired to fix room prices by jointly delegating pricing decisions to a shared AI-powered pricing platform. The decision is the first from a federal court of appeals addressing horizontal conspiracy claims arising from AI-facilitated price-fixing. Listen to his argument here and read more about the win here.
- Fairstead Capital Management, et al. v. William Blodgett (Del Ch.) Won summary judgment from Delaware Chancery Court on behalf of Will Blodgett, an affordable housing investor, in a breach-of-contract action to reclaim equity worth tens of millions that had been improperly seized by his former employer, Fairstead. The victory follows a defeat of all of Fairstead’s counterclaims for damages in a related arbitration, and leaves everything resolved except how much Fairstead owes Blodgett in damages.
- Beast Investments, LLC v. Celebrity Virtual Dining, LLC, et al. (New York Commercial Division) Serves as counsel to the Chairman of Planet Hollywood International and his related virtual restaurant businesses in litigation against the world’s largest online influencer (“MrBeast”) for breach of contract premised on his disparagement of and failure to promote the MrBeast Burger business. Zach plays a key role on the litigation team, and has led discovery, taken and defended several depositions, and drafted briefs for multiple successful dispositive and discovery motions.
- Saba Capital Master Fund, et al. v. ASA Gold and Precious Metals, Ltd., et al. (SDNY) Achieved favorable settlement following successful shareholder election for a major activist investor Saba Capital in federal shareholder suit in SDNY challenging repeated violations of the Investment Company Act by closed-end mutual fund via its adoption of a Poison Pill.
- Intrepid Investments v. Selling Source, LLC (New York Commercial Division) Representing debtor internet advertising business in the New York Commercial Division in litigation brought by a junior lender alleging the payback of eight-figure senior debt instrument. Zach managed discovery and argued motions before the trial court, and drafted appellate briefs to the First Department, securing a favorable interlocutory result.
- Tang v. USCIS (SDNY) Counsel to prospective class of immigrants in Little Tucker Act litigation against USCIS, challenging the unlawful collection of immigration application fees for biometric services.
- Pro Bono Litigation. Won on all claims as trial counsel for pro bono Honduran LGBT asylum applicant for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Co-lead counsel in week-long trial, directed fact and expert witnesses. Drafted pre-trial briefs.
Honors & Distinctions
Honors and Awards
- One to Watch, Commercial Litigation Best Lawyers (2026 Woodward White, Inc.)
Clerkships
- Honorable Andrew D. Hurwitz, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Honorable Ronnie Abrams, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Education
Education
- Yale Law School (J.D.)
- John Fletcher Caskey Prize
- Thurman Arnold Prize
- Potter Stewart Prize
- Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, Social Studies)
- National Championship, American Mock Trial Association
- Three-Time Winner of the All-American Attorney Award, American Mock Trial Association
Admissions
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
