Nicholas Hall

Complex Litigation

Overview

Nicholas Hall is the founder of Hall Attorneys, P.C. and a plaintiff-side complex-litigation attorney focused on class actions and mass-claims matters involving data breaches, privacy failures, artificial intelligence, biometrics, consumer reporting, cryptocurrency, healthcare information, educational technology, and court-supervised claims administration.

Nick develops technically and factually complex cases from initial investigation and representative development through pleading, discovery, class certification, leadership, settlement, and trial preparation. His current matters involve alleged exposure or misuse of sensitive medical, financial, biometric, employment, educational, bankruptcy-claim, and cryptocurrency-customer information, as well as cyber-enabled theft, disruption of access to essential platforms, and failures affecting bankruptcy claims and distributions.

Nick serves as court-appointed interim lead counsel for the Free-for-Teacher track, or Track 3, in In re Instructure Data Breach Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. Track 3 concerns the distinct contract, property, export, and professional-loss claims of educators who maintained direct Canvas Free-for-Teacher accounts and allegedly lost access to years of educator-created course content following Instructure’s 2026 security incidents and permanent shutdown of the platform.

Nick is also counsel in pending putative class actions concerning McKesson and CoverMyMeds, Mercor’s artificial-intelligence labor platform, Ledger customer information processed by Global-e, Suno, Paidwork, and the administration of cryptocurrency bankruptcy claims and distributions by Kroll and Stretto. Hall Attorneys also filed a separate Canvas student-user action that is now part of the consolidated Instructure litigation.

His prior experience representing creditors, statutory committees, bankruptcy trustees, businesses, and other stakeholders in complex restructurings informs his approach to modern privacy and technology litigation. He works closely with clients, co-counsel, forensic specialists, economists, and other experts to identify the systems and information at issue, preserve critical evidence, develop causation and damages, and pursue both monetary and practical relief.

Current Class Actions and Leadership

In re Instructure Data Breach Litigation

No. 2:26-cv-00374-RJS-CMR · U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Nick serves as court-appointed interim lead counsel for the Free-for-Teacher track, or Track 3. The track arises from Instructure’s response to its May 2026 security incidents and permanent discontinuation of Canvas Free-for-Teacher. It concerns direct account holders who allegedly lost access to identifiable course content they created and stored on the platform, including assessments, lesson plans, training modules, rubrics, presentations, discussion materials, and other professional work.

Track 3 addresses educator-specific issues involving ownership and possession of course content, account authentication, individualized notice, preservation, export completeness, migration, reconstruction costs, professional time, business interruption, and equitable relief.

Hall Attorneys also filed a separate action on behalf of Canvas users alleging that the security incident exposed identifying information and messages among users while disrupting students’ finals-week access to course materials, grades, study resources, exam instructions, and online examinations. That action is now part of the consolidated Instructure litigation.

Hall v. McKesson Corporation and CoverMyMeds LLC

No. 3:26-cv-02958-D · U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Counsel in a putative nationwide class action arising from McKesson’s disclosure of unauthorized access to third-party applications and data exfiltration. The complaint alleges that McKesson and CoverMyMeds failed to reasonably safeguard personally identifiable information and protected health information processed through prescription-technology, medication-access, prior-authorization, and pharmacy-management operations.

The action seeks discovery concerning the applications and systems affected, the information exfiltrated, the number and categories of affected people, the adequacy of McKesson’s security controls and notification process, and resulting risks of medical-identity misuse, prescription fraud, phishing, identity theft, financial loss, and other harm.

Ananthula, et al. v. Mercor.io Corporation, et al.

No. 3:26-cv-03362 · U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Counsel in a putative class action concerning Mercor’s artificial-intelligence-driven applicant and worker platform and an alleged supply-chain compromise involving LiteLLM.

The complaint alleges that the platform centralized unusually sensitive applicant and worker information, including recorded AI interviews, facial biometrics, identity-verification documents, background-check files, tax and banking information, payment records, and screenshots captured from personal devices through workforce-monitoring software. The asserted claims include privacy, biometric, consumer-reporting, contract, negligence, and unfair-practices theories.

Ledger / Global-e Data Incident Litigation

No. 1:26-cv-07222 · U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Counsel in a putative class action alleging that a December 2025 compromise of a Global-e cloud system exposed Ledger customer and order information later used in targeted impersonation and cryptocurrency-theft schemes.

The complaint alleges that customer identity, contact, shipping, purchase, device, and order information could identify an individual as a cryptocurrency holder and make a tailored Ledger impersonation campaign more credible. It proposes claims for affected Ledger customers, targeted victims, and customers who suffered completed digital-asset losses. The named plaintiffs allege aggregate digital-asset losses valued at more than $2.6 million at the time of the transfers.

Suno Data Breach Litigation

No. 1:26-cv-13433 · U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Counsel in a putative class action arising from a reported November 2025 security incident involving personal information associated with more than 55 million Suno users.

The complaint concerns the alleged exposure of account information and, for certain users, phone numbers, customer names, physical addresses, purchase information, and partial payment-card data maintained in Stripe transaction records. It seeks damages, appropriate notice and protective services, and prospective security relief.

Paidwork Data Breach Litigation

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Counsel in a putative class action alleging that Paidwork failed to use reasonable safeguards and provide prompt and adequate notice after sensitive user information was allegedly accessed and publicly disclosed.

The reported dataset was associated with approximately 23.3 million unique email addresses and allegedly included profile, contact, banking, payout, transaction, device, and credential information. The complaint proposes a North American data-breach class and a subclass for users who experienced actual misuse.

John Doe 1 v. Stretto, Inc.

No. 1:26-cv-03477 · U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Counsel in a putative class action arising from the April 2024 compromise of Stretto’s claims-administration environment and alleged post-breach failures affecting cryptocurrency creditors in the Celsius, Voyager, and Prime Core bankruptcy proceedings.

The complaint alleges that the incident exposed identifying, contact, claim, voting, and distribution information associated with more than 500,000 cryptocurrency creditors. It challenges Stretto’s security controls, breach scoping, notification timing, post-breach communications, claimant-support procedures, and response to delayed or disrupted distributions.

Kroll Restructuring Administration Litigation

No. 1:25-cv-01319-RP · U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

No. 1:26-cv-06710-GBD · U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Nick is lead counsel in the Western District of Texas action and counsel in related Southern District of New York litigation arising from Kroll’s August 2023 security incident and its administration of claims and distributions for FTX, BlockFi, and Genesis customer-creditors.

The actions concern alleged exposure of creditor and claims information, targeted cryptocurrency phishing and theft, the use and administration of online claims portals, notice of rights-affecting deadlines, claim-verification delays, distribution impediments, and resulting financial and procedural harm. The litigation seeks damages and practical reforms to protect creditors and improve the administration of claims and distributions following a cybersecurity incident.

Cryptocurrency and Restructuring Experience

Nick’s work in cryptocurrency-related disputes began with Mt. Gox, where he advised several of the exchange’s largest creditors in the Japanese civil-rehabilitation proceeding and related U.S. matters. His clients included a creditor associated with what is believed to have been the third transaction recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain.

He has since represented committees, trustees, businesses, and individual claimants in matters involving distressed cryptocurrency exchanges, cross-border claims processes, disputed claims and distributions, wallet compromises, digital-asset recoveries, cyber-enabled theft, and the handling of customer information by bankruptcy professionals and claims administrators.

Before concentrating his practice on plaintiff-side class actions, mass-claims litigation, and data-breach disputes, Nick represented parties in complex restructurings, asset sales, bankruptcy litigation, and financial disputes.

Selected Prior Matters

Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors — KLN Steel

In re KLN Steel Products Co., LLC, et al., No. 11-12855, jointly administered with Nos. 11-12856, 11-12858, and 11-13154 (Bankr. W.D. Tex., Austin Div.) — Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in coordinated Chapter 11 proceedings.

Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors — SBMC Healthcare

In re SBMC Healthcare, LLC, No. 12-33299 (Bankr. S.D. Tex., Houston Div.) — Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in a complex healthcare Chapter 11 proceeding.

Mt. Gox

Tokyo District Court and related U.S. matters — Counsel to multiple large creditors concerning civil-rehabilitation strategy, claims reconciliation, cross-border issues, and distributions.

Public Service

Nick was appointed by the Mayor of Houston to serve as the founding Chair of the Board of the Houston Land Bank. In that role, he helped restructure a quasi-governmental entity and position it to receive and deploy public funding for disaster recovery following hurricanes and major flood events.

Education

  • J.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Hagman Scholar
  • B.A., University of Texas at Austin

Admissions

  • State Bar of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

This profile is attorney advertising. Pending complaints contain allegations only. No class has been certified in any pending matter unless otherwise stated. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Nicholas Hall