Demet Basar

Demet Basar joined Beasley Allen in 2020 with more than 30 years of experience handling complex class action lawsuits. She focuses on high-stakes litigation involving unfair and deceptive business practices, false advertising, and defective products.

Demet’s journey began as a paralegal at The Legal Aid Society in NYC, where she helped indigent families secure public assistance and emergency rent grants to prevent homelessness. Seeing the struggles of these families inspired her to become a lawyer to be better equipped to seek justice for the unrepresented. After learning the tools of her trade at a defense firm, she began representing plaintiffs with the goal of working on cases that could provide meaningful benefits to many people at once. At her new firm, she prosecuted class actions for investors and consumers, including in securities fraud cases arising from the Madoff Ponzi scheme, which resulted in $300 million in settlements for harmed investors, and the Toyota Sienna Sliding Doors auto defect litigation, in which she secured a settlement valued at $40 million for owners of 1 million vehicles.

After joining Beasley Allen, Demet continued to use her sense of justice to represent plaintiffs in high impact litigation. She played a key role in the successful prosecution and settlement of the Denso defective fuel pump litigations, including as co-class counsel in the Toyota-Denso case, in which she achieved a $287 million settlement for owners of nearly 5 million Toyota/Lexus vehicles; a settlement valued at $380 million in the Subaru-Denso case and a $172 million settlement in the Mazda-Denso litigation.  One of her most notable cases was the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play Sleeper multidistrict litigation, where she represented purchasers and owners of 4.7 million inclined sleepers, the use of which resulted in numerous infant deaths and injuries.  Together with James Eubank and Paul Evans, Demet secured a settlement of $19 million together with a nationwide campaign to notify owners to stop using the sleepers in that case.  Demet is also co-lead counsel in the ARC Airbag Inflators multidistrict litigation.

She is a member of the American Bar Association.

Demet and her husband, John, divide their time between their 100-year-old lake house in the Catskill Mountains and New York City.  They love the tranquility of country life but never tire of the vibrant energy and diversity of the city, where they met, married and lived for decades.  Demet is passionate about the arts and enjoys exploring the city’s galleries and museums and taking in its many cultural events. Beyond her personal interests, Demet is dedicated to her community, actively fundraising for organizations that support public housing residents.

Education

Demet graduated with top honors from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she was a member of the Phi Omega Epsilon honor society. She then went on to earn her law degree from Rutgers University School of Law in 1990. 

During her time at Rutgers, she received the prestigious West’s Scholarship Award and served as the Senior Notes and Comments Editor for the Rutgers Law Review.

Licenses

• New Jersey (1990)
• New York (1992)

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