Class Actions - Business Litigation

Scope of Service

In today's business world, litigants often seek to apply the increased leverage that comes with class action allegations. This effect is often compounded when "copycat" or similar class action cases are filed in various states, and discovery and case developments begin to occur furiously in multiple forums at the same time. Much is often at stake in terms of claim amounts and from the business perspective of limiting disruption.

We work with our clients to evaluate and implement appropriate strategies to streamline the discovery and its associated burden, to enforce arbitration agreements if applicable, to determine whether an MDL proceeding should be sought, and to defeat or limit the scope of class certification, while also defending the merits of the action. Our class action experience includes:

• Defense of nationwide and state antitrust class actions for major telecommunications and pharmaceutical companies 
• Defense of nationwide and state consumer and business billing practices class actions 
• Defense of right-of-way class actions for major telecommunications companies 
• Defense of product liability class actions 
• Defense of securities class actions against publicly traded companies

Of Note

Sometimes the best way to defend clients involves creativity, and the adoption of effective techniques from one's adversaries. When a city/county government client and 1,100 of its residents were sued in an Tribal land claim seeking billions of dollars worth of property, our lawyers advocated, formed and represented a unique defendants' class to efficiently (in money and united strategy) defend the action in federal court. After a unified and streamlined course of discovery, our dispositive motion on behalf of the defendants' class was granted.