SAN FRANCISCO — Competition for the lead counsel role in data-breach litigation targeting Anthem Inc. has spawned a feeding frenzy in the plaintiffs bar—albeit a well-behaved one.

Seventeen separate plaintiffs groups are set for a hearing Thursday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose over who will lead the case against Anthem, the nation’s second-largest health insurer. Among the firms jockeying for top billing are Hausfeld; Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll; Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy; Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd; Milberg; and Berger & Montague, each touting their own records in complex class actions and privacy litigation.

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