When faced with high-stakes class-action litigation, clients regularly depend on our national defense team for the time-tested solutions and guidance they need to achieve the best possible outcomes. We litigate class actions whether that means moving to dismiss, moving to strike, opposing class certification, or trying the case. Our experienced and strategic approach helps clients efficiently resolve disputes while also managing the unique risk of class actions.
Regardless of the forum chosen or the claims asserted, we have a long track record of litigating bet-the-company class actions in all levels of state and federal courts throughout the U.S. We have experience representing public and privately held companies in class actions involving diverse industry and business areas, including financial institutions, hospitals and health care, higher education, ERISA, antitrust, pharmaceutical and medical device/product liability, retail, insurance and policyholder class actions, data breaches, privacy, products liability, securities, mass tort, unfair business practices, labor and employment, and environmental law. A particular area of focus is our work in consumer financial services and the defense of claims involving key federal statutes, including FCRA, TCPA, FDCPA, ECOA, TILA, RESPA, and their state analogs.
Our approach is informed by in-depth knowledge of the tactics utilized by the most prominent plaintiffs’ firms and our experience in trying cases to verdict. We have defended clients in class actions in 38 states plus the District of Columbia, including “plaintiff-friendly” jurisdictions such as California, Florida, Illinois, and West Virginia. We have extensive experience handling high-exposure class action lawsuits, with billions of dollars at stake. Clients also benefit from the unified defense we provide in parallel investigations and other matters initiated by federal and state regulators, including state attorneys general.
We help to position our clients for success by aggressively working toward early settlement or disposition whenever possible, while also thoroughly preparing for trial. A defense strategy may include obtaining early dismissal on the merits and pursuing other dispositive motions, enforcing arbitration clauses, securing the denial of class certification, disqualifying opposing experts and bifurcating cases between class certification and merits. We have also obtained results for our clients at the appellate levels in both state and federal courts. Our team utilizes the latest available eDiscovery technologies provided by our legal technology and eDiscovery affiliate, eMerge.
Our class action experience has been consistently recognized by publications such as BTI Litigation, Benchmark Litigation, Law 360 and Chambers USA.
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