Our practice includes a wide range of class actions and multidistrict litigation, spanning the environmental, products liability, and consumer fraud areas. We have defended clients in the petrochemical, consumer products, insurance, financial services, medical device and chemical industries, in cases brought in state and federal courts nationwide.
Experience
- Defending a major oil refiner against a host of federal and state court actions filed by local and state governments and private water suppliers alleging that the oil industry’s use of MTBE in gasoline contaminated groundwater and drinking water resources.
- Defending health insurance provider in multiple purported class actions alleging an industry-wide conspiracy to fix the price of out-of-network healthcare costs through the use of a common vendor.
- Representing multinational technology company in a consumer class action alleging violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and claims under consumer protection and antitrust statutes in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
- Representing energy and infrastructure construction company in a putative class and collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Wisconsin wage-and-hour law.
- Representing agriculture cooperative in dozens of antitrust class actions alleging a conspiracy to fix granulated sugar prices.
- Defending an insurer in a purported nationwide class action on behalf of its long-term care insurance policyholders, challenging claims-handling standards and practices, and alleging fraud and breach of contract.
- Defended clients in series of putative BIPA class actions filed in California and Illinois state and federal court.
- Defeated class certification in a lawsuit against gasoline manufacturers by Florida boat owners who claimed that their boats’ engines and fuel systems were damaged by ethanol-blended fuel.
- Represented an electronics company in a nationwide class action on behalf of all purchasers of eight different models of smart phones, alleging breach of warranty, fraud, and breach of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
- Represented insurers in RICO and antitrust litigation brought in multidistrict proceedings challenging the sale of commercial insurance of various types.
- Defended agriculture cooperatives in antitrust complaints brought on behalf of putative classes of purchasers of seeds and crop-protection chemicals such as fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides used by farmers.
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Represented technology company in a class action antitrust trial alleging our client and another company conspired to restrain trade in relation to their data management systems.
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Represented oil refiner in a consumer class action alleging false and fraudulent marketing in connection with certain lubricant products.
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Represented private college in a putative class action alleging violations of Title IX and various state laws.
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Represented property and casualty insurance company in a nationwide class action challenging regulatory compliance and claims-handling practices and alleging breach of contract and tort causes of action arising from the company’s long-term care insurance book of business.
